This is a presentation for the 2013 PMI Nashville Symposium. During this presentation Craig will set the stage for the Strategic Project Management track and introduce the audience to the Forgotten Phase of Strategic Project Management. The forgotten phase is before a project begins, where the vision is set and the mission of the project goals are first decided. He will talk about Strategy and his storms of chaos model, Change Management and his butterfly model, his Drivers of Change model, Systems Thinking, and the how the foundational principle of Excellent Management works together to set the stage for project selection.