La Juana Chambers Lawson

Impact Investment Keynote Speaker | Grants & Proposal Management Author & Professor | Seen in @Forbes, @OMagazine, @ExpressNews | DM/Website for Speaking Inquiries

I’m a down-to-earth science teacher turned serial entrepreneur leading Tacit Growth Strategies, a management consulting firm specializing in grant and proposal writing, project management training and support, and government contracting.

I fervently work to invent and re-engineer new approaches to impact investment strategy in alignment with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) or the 17 Global Goals designed to be a “blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all”.

My work supports my vision for an environmentally sound, socially just, and inclusively governed tomorrow.

I am the Founder of The Global Intrapreneur Network, a network of Intrapreneurs from more than five countries.

Listen to our (Tacit Growth Strategies) origin story on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufRwbllrroU.

Interested in learning more about the grant management process? Like and follow my book’s LinkedIn page at ‘Master Grant Writing: A Project Manager’s Guide’ for upcoming webinars, immersion labs, and hands-on support.

Interested in learning more about the exceptional value of project management? Like and follow Tacit Growth Strategies LinkedIn page for upcoming webinars, training events, consulting, and other forms of support.

I look forward to connecting with you!
Onward and upward together.

I recently spoke about SDG 16 with GCPIT and had a month-long sponsored speaking engagement with Verizon’s Small Business Program to address all of the SDGs on LinkedIn and YouTube live streams. My company Tacit Growth Strategies is an impact investment firm t develops impact funds for Chambers of Commerce, charitable foundations and and municipalities.

La Juana’s favorite quote is: “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” — Audre Lorde

Performance Snapshot

• CEO & Founder, Tacit Growth Strategies & Investor
• Co-Host, Real Management Talk Podcast
• Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses
• Mentor for Trinity University MIT Venture Mentoring Program
• Former President of the Alamo Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Founding Member of Black Women Lead
• Former President of San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum
• Former Board Director of the Edgewood Education Foundation (EEF)
• Board Director of The African American Network TV (TAAN-TV)
• Board Director of the State of Texas Kidney Foundation (TKF) & Chair of the Legislation and Public Policy Committee
• Board Director The Global Chamber San Antonio
• Board Director of the African American Chamber of Commerce of San Antonio & Procurement Committee Chair
• Board Director of the South Alamo Regional Alliance for the Homeless (SARAH), Bexar County/San Antonio HUD CoC
• Best-Selling Author of “A Project Manager’s Guide to Grant Writing”, re-released as “Master Grant Writing: A Project
• Manager’s Guide” published by River Walk Publishing
• Featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, Entrepreneur, Voyage Dallas, Forbes, SA Monthly, MarketWatch, and more.

I am a Professor of Project Management at the University of the Incarnate Word (undergraduate) in the HEB School of Business. I am a Professor of all of the courses offered in the Nonprofit Management Master’s Degre Pòtigal at Our Lady of the Lake University.