Feminist Project Management
Challenging, disrupting and transforming mainstream project management.
“Many organisations in our sector work to provide access to services, knowledge, and skills for the most marginalised communities, but don’t focus enough on dismantling the systems and structures that contribute to marginalisation and oppression in the first place — including within our own organisations”.
(Harper & Albrectsen)
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Read our first Learning Brief, created in collaboration with COFEM, introducing the core principles of feminist project management.
Introducing Feminist Project Management
Traditional project management is often presented as a neutral tool for achieving goals, but its roots lie in systems shaped by slavery, racism, patriarchy, capitalism, and colonialism. These origins prioritised productivity over people, excluded women, and reinforced oppression, practices and language that still perpetuate harm today.Feminist Project Management (FPM) was born from a collective desire to transform project management - from funding, implementation to measuring impact - through a feminist lens.FPM is a process that uses feminist principles, values and practises to help you individually or collectively lead a project to achieve set outcomes.
FPM offers “Different ways of being leaders by providing space to organise, facilitate, and govern in ways that challenge and subvert the mainstream leadership models”- FPM Learning Brief
Feminist Project Management aims to disrupt, challenge and transform mainstream project management approaches, offering a values-driven approach that centres inclusion, equity, and care.Visit our blog to find out more about why we set up FPM and how we practise it.
Our Story
Janna Visser and Laura Dix are the two co-founders of Feminist Project Management (FPM) and bring a wealth of expertise and shared passion to their work in FPM.The two met through the Coalition of Feminists for Social Change (COFEM), where they bonded over shared frustrations with traditional project management practices in the humanitarian sector that often conflicted with their values.Their collaboration began with a COFEM workshop, where they listened to feminists worldwide express similar challenges. The overwhelming resonance of these shared experiences inspired them to connect with hundreds of others eager to explore alternative approaches to project management.FPM now serves as a dynamic platform, featuring a website, blog, webinars, and training courses designed to bring people together to challenge traditional project management paradigms. They also work with a range of organisations to review internal project management processes and reimagine, from a systemic level, what FPM can look like in practice.Through FPM, Janna and Laura aim to collectively dismantle outdated practices and pave the way for a radically different, values-driven future.
About Us
Janna Visser is an independent feminist consultant, project manager and researcher. She has over 8 years of experience working with international development organisations, local women's rights organisations, academic institutions and private organisations working on diverse projects in various roles.
Laura Dix has 15 years experience working in various roles within the gender-based violence sector in the UK, and has previously managed projects globally and across the UK. She has a master's degree in Gender, Sexuality and Society and is a Trustee for Women + Health Camden.
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Why Feminist Project Management?
Traditional project management was built around control, extraction, hierarchy, and efficiency at all costs.But organisations today are increasingly recognising that sustainable, effective projects require something differentThat’s where Feminist Project Management (FPM) comes in.FPM helps organisations deliver projects in ways that are more human, equitable, reflective, and sustainable- without losing clarity, accountability, or impact.We focus on collaboration, participation, wellbeing, adaptability, and trust.We combine practical project management expertise with feminist principles to help teams work better together, navigate complexity, and build healthier project cultures.
why it matters
Feminist Project Management emerges in response to a growing body of evidence showing that traditional project systems are structurally linked to burnout, ill health, and reduced wellbeing, and that these harms are shaped by how power is organised, distributed, and enacted within projects. The data speaks for itself:
1. There is strong evidence to suggest systemic overwork within Projects
2. Projects (and the way they are designed, funded, implemented and evaluated) are consistently linked to burnout and poor wellbeing
3. Burnout is structural, not individual failure
4. Power imbalances in projects directly affect wellbeing and illness
So what does work- and why?
4. Care-based and feminist organisational models improve sustainability add data
what makes fpm different?
We don’t treat projects as machines to optimise. We treat them as ecosystems of people, relationships, power, learning, and care.
Our work is practical, reflective, and deeply grounded in the realities of project delivery. We support organisations to rethink not only what they deliver, but how they deliver it.
Why organisations choose fpm:
Because teams are tired of:
rigid systems that don’t reflect reality
project cultures built around urgency and burnout
unclear accountability and siloed working
top-down decision-making that excludes lived experience
delivery approaches that disconnect people from purpose
FPM offers another way.A way of managing projects that values clarity and care. Accountability and participation. Strategy and relationships.
ready to rethink project management?
Whether you are looking for consultancy, coaching, organisational transformation, or training, FPM helps organisations build project cultures that are more effective, equitable, and sustainable.