On 09 July 2007, Entrepreneuresses and female project managers from all over Germany met at the Frankfurt “Cosmopolitan” on invitation of Roswitha Müller-Ettrich (Munich, founding member and Head of the Board of Trustees of the GPM, (German project management association-IPMA) and Dr. Dorothee Feldmüller (Bochum, IT-project management and consulting; Leaders’ Team of GPM Chapter Dortmund).
Dr. Katharina Kettner took part in the newly founded GPM work group as an associated expert for Diversity and Inclusion.
Strategic objective is the creating space for themes of gender within project management, and will be basis for enhancing collaboration and effectiveness in project management work by diversity, as well as tackling questions of marketing achievements, image and profile, for example by means of success stories.
Talking about successes and failures is an important element of future oriented management. Diversity belongs to the field of intercultural competencens, by which added value can be improved in many projects. Contrarily, ignoring cross cultural differences not only wastes nerves, but also assignments, time and money.
