What It’s Like to Be a Woman in Project Management

For International Women’s Day, Projectified ® hosts a roundtable with three women project leaders to discuss what it’s currently like for women in project management, how teams benefit from diversity and how organizations can better support women leaders, plus questions they had for one another as fellow project leaders. Our guests include Janete Faustino, PMP, PfMP, portfolio management leader of operations strategy and performance, TAP Air Portugal, Lisbon; Bharti Ochani, PMP, IT project manager, Halian, Dubai; and Maeve O’Brien, project manager, DDB, Chicago. Key themes [02:00] Three women project leaders on the state of women in project management [05:00] The benefits of diverse teams [06:16] Top skills for project managers: stakeholder management, accountability and conviction [09:43] Ways organizations can support women leaders [13:22] How do you keep moving forward in the face of obstacles on projects? [18:54] Advice to women project leaders: Network, be the driver of your own career, be genuine