Opening Remarks - 9:00 - 9:10 AM
Marianne W. Lewis, PhD, Dean and Professor of Management, Carl H. Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati

Marianne W. Lewis, PhD, is dean at the Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati, and prior at Bayes Business School, City University of London. Dean Lewis has long valued PMI and its expert community, having studied manufacturing and project tensions since her doctoral program. An international expert on organizational paradoxes, her research explores competing demands surrounding leadership and innovation. Her latest book, Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems, published by Harvard Business Review, received the 2023 Thinkers50 Breakthrough Award. Dean Lewis has been recognized among the world’s most-cited researchers in her field (Web of Science) and received the Decade Award (2021) from the Academy of Management Review. Her work also appears in such media outlets as Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Newsweek, and MarketWatch.