Virtual Chapter Meeting: "Paradoxical Leadership: The Project Manager’s Edge"

In this webinar, Gloriana Teh, PMP, MBA, introduces Paradoxical Leadership, a mindset and skillset that equips project managers to embrace and balance competing demands. Drawing from behavioral science and decades of industry experience, Gloriana will show how mastering paradoxes like optimism vs. skepticism and flexibility vs. control can:

• Spark greater innovation and collaboration across teams
• Reduce interpersonal and cross-functional conflict
• Help you tailor and harmonize Agile and Waterfall approaches

Participants will leave with actionable insights and practical tools to shift from either/or thinking to both/and leadership—making you not just a better project manager, but a more effective change agent in your organization.

In today’s complex project environments, leaders are constantly pulled in opposing directions, agile yet structured, empower teams while maintaining accountability, drive innovation and ensure predictability. These tensions aren’t problems to solve—they’re paradoxes to lead.

Gloriana equips leaders so their people and projects can thrive by connecting the head & the heart! She founded Claritas Consulting & Coaching to provide strategy and talent management consulting services to organizations along with leadership and career coaching services for individuals.

Gloriana has 20+ years of corporate experience, with 15+ years in either a project, program, or portfolio management role. Her projects have been as large as a $1 billion portfolio optimization program for a Fortune 500 company which involved development of a best-in-class data visualization tool. She also managed a team responsible for process development and optimization for two of Lonza’s specialty chemicals business units ($850 million combined annual revenue). Gloriana has a track record of unlocking value for organizations by helping them re-think how they can better leverage their data and optimize their processes. She is passionate about empowering leaders to build high-performing teams and has worked extensively with cross-functional teams.