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The Strategy and Technique of a Growth Mindset in Project Management by Mrs. La Juana Chambers Lawson

Monthly Chapter Meeting – 1.5 PDUs

Monthly Chapter Meeting Prices:

• $30 for members (pre-registered)
• $40 for non-members (pre-registered)
• $45 at the door

Early Registration Ends 12:00 Noon on Monday 23 September

TITLE: The Strategy and Technique of a Growth Mindset in Project Management

DATE: September 25, 2019

OVERVIEW: 

According to Gallup's recently released State of the American Workplace report for 2017 only 30% of the workforce are engaged. What could low levels of engagement mean to your organization? More importantly are you one of the nearly 70% of American workers who are not reaching their full potential?  Whether it be attributed to a toxic workplace culture or simply boredom, a growth mindset can go a long way in determining your capacity and willingness to strive for success especially as defined by the power of your Agile SMART goal setting.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT TO LEARN:  

• What a growth mindset is and how it feels in a personal and professional capacity
• Strategic alignments to common project life-cycle planning
• Strategic decision making in quantitative and qualitative project screening and selection
• Agile SMART goal setting for sustainable growth and scale

SPEAKER BIO: 

Mrs. La Juana (LJ) Chambers Lawson, MPA, PMP, LSSYB is a strategic project manager with nearly two decades of experience in diverse fund development, program management, international relations, grant and proposal writing and consulting. As seen in O, The Oprah Magazine, Entrepreneur, HeartFire Media and Voyage Dallas, LJ is the Owner and Principal Consultant at Tacit Growth Strategies (TGS), LLC, a project management firm that manages a portfolio of multi-million dollar projects. LJ serves as Immediate Past President of the Alamo PMI Chapter. She also teaches Project Management at UIW. She takes great pride in serving as President and Board Chair of the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum (SAAACAM), a digital archive and museum situated in the historic Sutton Family Homestead in Dignowity Hills on the East side. 

LJ manages a vast portolio of projects for public and private agencies domestic and abroad. Her expertise spans non-profit board development and management, small business certification and start-up culture coaching, program design, major grants and proposal writing and #GrowthMindset professional development for young and seasoned business professionals. 

LJ has worked on Capitol Hill and Homeland Security where she exercised discretion in contriving national policies regarding best practices in urban water renewal systems and treatments. In collaboration with the NSF and other community partners, she developed the first project based learning curriculum for a local area high school in Richmond, VA while teaching AP Environmental Science and AP Biology. She's spent a great deal of her professional career in education both as a adiminstrator and as an instructor. LJ served as co-founder and grant writer for the building of a co-ed boarding school, the first of its kind in South Sudan years before the country declared its independence.