November 11, 2025 Chapter Meeting
Power Skills
Have you ever wanted to dive deeper into your powers of leadership as a project manager? Please join us for an engaging and interactive session on leadership and problem-solving. Julia Monaghan will guide us through:
Leading through complexity: Leveraging collective expertise to solve our toughest challenges
While the pace of change, information exchange, and technology have been driving uncertainty for quite some time now, today we are in an unprecedented era of ambiguity and volatility across state and municipal government and the social and corporate sectors. Effectively leading and planning in the context of this uncertainty, and the complexity it creates, requires different approaches, skills, and a higher tolerance for emergence.
Project management professionals sit at the crux of the tension this creates — accountable for leading groups toward specific outcomes while responding to a context that sometimes shifts daily. This session will support participants' knowledge and skills in using a complexity-aware, people-centered approach to collectively working through complex challenges.
In service of this purpose, in this session we will:
- Explore what it means for a problem to be “complex”;
- Discuss the role of co-creation and collaboration in understanding and solving for complex challenges;
- Map out different ways to approach a complexity-aware approach to planning and problem solving;
- Apply what we’ve learned through scenario or peer case work; and
- Discuss how to integrate what we’ve learned in our day-to-day work.
About the speaker:
Julia Monaghan is a values-driven organizational development leader and practitioner who works to center the human experience in organizational life. She approaches this work by supporting authentic and vulnerable leadership, advancing equity and inclusion, prioritizing staff engagement in strategy and change efforts, and being attentive to people’s emotional and psychological needs in organizational life.
As the Founder and Principal Consultant at People Centered Change, Julia brings over 15 years’ experience in organizational change, leadership development, team dynamics, DEI, strategy development and operationalization, and workshop design and facilitation. She has worked across continents, countries, and sectors— from five years in partnership with a network of healthcare organizations across Bangladesh, to work with youth-led advocacy organizations in Mozambique, to exploring more inclusive futures with a Canadian federal energy regulator, to partnering with grassroots organizations in the New England area where she is based.
Julia holds a Masters Degree in Organizational Development from American University. She lives in Salem, Massachusetts with her husband and her dogs Cato and Astra.
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