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Dana Harris

BEAR, United States

Executive transformation and PMO leader with 20+ years of experience guiding global portfolios, governance, and AI-enabled delivery across Fortune 500 and high-growth organizations. Known for aligning strategy, risk, and execution to deliver measurable value. Experience spans technology, financial services, chemicals, SaaS, and higher education. Adjunct graduate instructor and contributor on PMO maturity, governance leadership, and the evolving role of AI in delivery.

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Travels From: Bear, DE
Speaking Topics: AI Won’t Fix Your PMO: Governance, Judgment, and the Human Side of Intelligent Delivery, The Gap Between Governance on Paper and Governance in Practic

Dana Harris Points
Academic 40
Author 31
Influencer 9
Speaker 6
Entrepreneur 10
Total 96

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Minimum Project Size: Undisclosed
Average Hourly Rate: Undisclosed
Number of Employees: Undisclosed
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed

Areas of Expertise

AI 30.13
Change Management 30.12
Digital Transformation 30.04
Education 31.61
Future of Work
Generative AI 30.70
GRC 30.22
IT Leadership 33.12
Leadership 30.81
Project Management 33.35
Risk Management 30.45
Transformation 30.28

Industry Experience

Chemicals
Financial Services & Banking
Healthcare
High Tech & Electronics
Higher Education & Research
Industrial Machinery & Components
Manufacturing
Professional Services

Publications & Experience

2 Adjunct Instructors
AI Governance Governance Committee - Academics and Teaching Sub Committee
Wilmington University
February 11, 2026
Member of sub-team that is focused on the following:
Develop guidelines for AI use in coursework and assessment
Identify discipline-specific opportunities and risks
Outline a student AI competency framework
Evaluate the impact of AI on learning outcomes
Explore and recommend AI-enabled instructional practices

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Tags: Education, Generative AI, Project Management

Wilmington University
Wilmington University
August 01, 2022
I teach graduate level courses in the college of Business and Technology:

IPM7060 - Project and Change Management
IPM7080 - Cloud Management
IPM8105 - Information Systems Technology Capstone
IPM7000 - Artificial Intelligence in Project Management (will be teaching during Spring 2026)

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Tags: IT Leadership, Leadership, Project Management

1 Article/Blog
Thanksgiving: A Full Program in Disguise
Linkedln
November 26, 2025
Thanksgiving is not a single project. It is a full program with multiple workstreams that must come together in harmony to deliver one joyful, delicious, memory-making experience. And funny enough, the coordination required at home often looks a lot like the coordination required in business.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Project Management

1 Award Judge
AI in Healthcare Entrepreneurial Conference
George Washington University
January 01, 2024
In 2024, I served as a judge for George Washington University New Venture Competition (NVC), the university’s flagship entrepreneurial competition organized by the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The competition featured multiple tracks, including a dedicated Health Care & Life Sciences track, where AI-driven healthcare ventures competed.

Collectively, the judging panels awarded over $330,000 in total prize funding, and as part of the judging team, I participated in evaluating ventures and awarded $20,000 in funding to selected startups.

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Tags: AI

1 Speaking Engagement
Emotional Intelligence as a Tool for Project Managers and Scrum Masters to Assess Collaboration
International Institute for Learning, Inc.
November 05, 2000
This session explores how Emotional Intelligence functions as a practical leadership tool for Project Managers and Scrum Masters navigating complex, high-pressure delivery environments. Rather than treating Emotional Intelligence as a soft skill, the session reframes it as a way to assess team conditions, strengthen collaboration, and address emerging issues before they impact performance.

Using the concept of “taking the team’s temperature,” the discussion examines how unmanaged emotional dynamics can quietly corrode collaboration, decision-making, and outcomes. Participants gain a clearer understanding of how Emotional Intelligence and collaboration intersect, the role project leaders play in shaping those dynamics, and how to recognize early signals that a team’s effectiveness is shifting.

The session combines research-backed concepts with real-world project leadership examples, offering practical guidance on improving self-awareness, regulating responses under pressure, fostering productive collaboration, and creating conditions where teams can perform effectively together. By the end of the session, participants are better equipped to read team dynamics, strengthen collaboration across roles and distances, and lead with greater intention and impact

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Tags: Leadership, Project Management, Risk Management

1 Webinar
Masterclass - Taking the Temperature: Emotional Intelligence As a Core Core Capability for Project Leders
The PM Playbook hosted the Master's Class
February 26, 2026
In this masterclass, I explored emotional intelligence as a strategic leadership capability in modern project and program environments. The session examined how leaders assess the “temperature” of teams, stakeholders, and portfolios to anticipate challenges, strengthen trust, and improve execution outcomes. Drawing on practical leadership experience, I discussed how emotional awareness, communication, and situational insight help project leaders navigate complexity, align stakeholders, and deliver results in high-stakes environments.

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Tags: GRC, Leadership, Project Management

10 Whitepapers
Operating What You Approve
Linkedin
February 19, 2026
How governance and architecture shape sustainability before onboarding begins

Procurement does not conclude at contract approval. It begins a longer commitment: operating within another organization’s governance, architectural discipline, and strategic direction. When a SaaS platform, product, or strategic services partner is selected, the organization is not only choosing functionality. It is choosing a company to depend on, a development model to trust, and an operating maturity that will integrate into its own environment

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Tags: IT Leadership, Leadership, Project Management

The Cost of What Contract Approval Leaves Unexamined
Linkedin
February 11, 2026
Every contract structure answers a different question about who carries risk, who absorbs change, and who pays when assumptions break.

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Tags: IT Leadership, Leadership, Project Management

The Biggest Risk in Procurement Isn’t the Vendor, it’s excluding the PMO from the decision
Linkedin
February 02, 2026
Procurement is often framed as a moment. A contract to sign. A vendor to select, onboard, and integrate into the organization’s ecosystem.

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Tags: IT Leadership, Leadership, Project Management

Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
LinkedIn
January 27, 2026
Knowing When to Push, Pause, or Reframe

This article is the capstone of the Emotional Intelligence in Leadership series, written from the perspective of a Project Leader. In earlier pieces, I explored emotional intelligence as a leadership lens, trust as a stabilizing force, and collaboration as productive tension rather than forced harmony. This final article brings those ideas together by focusing on the moments that ultimately define project leadership impact: the decisions Project Leaders make under pressure, when the temperature in the organization is rising and the right answer is not obvious.

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Tags: Leadership, Project Management, Risk Management

Collaboration: How Emotional Intelligence Redistributes Pressure Across Projects
Linkedin
January 21, 2026
Collaboration determines how pressure moves once delivery becomes complex. Whether it is shared across teams, stakeholders, and leadership, or whether it quietly concentrates in a few places until something gives.

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Tags: Leadership, Project Management, Risk Management

Trust: The Condition That Stabilizes Temperature Over Time
Linkedin
January 13, 2026
Trust is not a soft concept in project leadership. It is the condition that determines how pressure moves through a project when certainty is incomplete.

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Tags: IT Leadership, Leadership, Project Management

Taking the Temperature: Emotional Intelligence as a Project Leadership Advantage
Linkedln
January 08, 2026
This article examines Emotional Intelligence as a project leadership capability, focusing on how leaders read team conditions under pressure and respond before early signals turn into delivery risk.

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Tags: Leadership, Project Management, Risk Management

10 Lessons I'm Taking with Me Into 2026
LinkedIn (Independent Publication)
December 17, 2025
Reflections on leadership, value delivery, and the human side of project work drawn from real-world practice, teaching, and transformation experience.

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Tags: GRC, Project Management, Transformation

The Duality of Modern Hybrid Delivery
Linkedln
December 10, 2025
Hybrid delivery is not a new idea, but the way we apply it today is very different. Many organizations are still trying to balance the need for clear, strategic decisions with the need for flexibility, speed, and ongoing learning. As expectations rise and AI changes the pace of work, the ability to blend structure with adaptability has never been more important.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Leadership, Project Management

Evolving with the Times: The Future of Project Management Is Still Human
Linkedln
November 06, 2025
I was recently teaching the Capstone Class to the next generation of Information Systems Technology graduate leaders at Wilmington University, where I serve as an Adjunct Instructor. Having grown up in the project management space over the past twenty years, leading programs and teams across business, operations, and technology landscapes, I love sharing real-world experiences that connect the classroom to the industry. During one of those discussions, a student asked a question that made me pause and think.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Project Management

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