Mag. Brigitte Schaden is a Managing Director, Chief Consultant, Coach and Business Mediator. President of Project Management Austria (pma), she is also Chairman of GAPPS, the Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards, and former President and Chair of the International Project Management Association (IPMA). She is an International Assessor for IPMA, First Assessor of the Certification Body of the Romanian Project Management Association, First Assessor of the Certification Body of the Greek Project Management Association, and First Assessor of the Certification Body of Project Management Austria. Brigitte is an Honorary Fellow of the Project Management Associations in Australia, Greece and Nepal. She is currently a Lecturer at the University of Klagenfurt and several Universities of Applied Science in Austria.
Brigitte has studied Insurance Mathematics at the University of Technology, Vienna, and Computer Technology at the University of Vienna. She has a Certificate of Proficiency in English from The University of Michigan and has completed the Curriculum in Consulting and Coaching from CONECTA (ÖGGO) and the Curriculum of Business Mediation at the University of Klagenfurt/Falk group. She is an IPMA Level B Certified Senior Project Manager.
Brigitte Schaden has many years of experience in the field of IT in bank and insurance companies, and in the field of Quality and Project Management, Training – Communication, Project Management. She has been IT-Manager of an international trading company; Manager of Project Management Competence Center of Libro AG; and Manager of HR & Organisation & Project Portfoliomanagement of Lion.cc Libro Online AG. She has been active in pma and IPMA for over twenty years and has spoken at national and international conferences worldwide (Brazil, China, India, Korea, South Africa, Australia, Nepal, etc.). Brigitte can be contacted at Brigitte.Schaden@p-m-a.at
