
Morning yoga class got an upgrade this week when puppies were invited to join. This little one may have done more climbing than stretching.
What a week at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center. We’ve put together a photo gallery of some of what happened over the first three days of Convening Leaders 2025 — and a few quotes that have stuck with us. Next year, we’ll celebrate 70 years of PCMA at Convening Leaders 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Please join us there.
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The latest class of PCMA's 20 in Their Twenties were toasted during a reception at the Dirty Soda Bar.

PCMA Foundation donated $10,000 Houston's Bread of Life food pantry as part of Hospitality Helping Hands. Participants also worked in the organization's warehouse packing up food to be delivered.
So much of what’s going on in the world right now is because we think it’s supposed to be easy. It’s not supposed to be easy — it’s supposed to be meaningful, it’s supposed to stretch us. It’s supposed to feel purposeful, it is not supposed to be comfortable. I do a hundred fricking uncomfortable things a week.”
Did you ever think that we’d be sitting in a [meeting] room talking about anxiety, talking about ADHD — if you were raised like I was, we didn’t talk about that. You struggled, you dealt with it in your own way, and you came out of your room when you were ready to handle it.”

Morning yoga wasn't the only place to get some puppy love — several cute canines could be cuddled at the Puppy Park in The District.

At the Do Good, Feel Good activation in The District, participants could help out a handful of organizations by decorating bookmarks for Books Between Friends, assembling birthday bags for The Birthday Joy Program, create toiletry kits for veterans served by U.S. Vets Houston, and packing lunch bags for Kids’ Meals Inc.


DEI is not a Black and Brown issue, it’s a human issue. Because of politics, we’ve allowed it now to become this red-and-blue conversation. The reality, though, is that’s not going away. It’s going to maybe get worse. So what we have to do is, we have to look at it as: what are we doing as leaders?”