TY - JFULL AU - Nnadi Ezekiel Ejiofor PY - 2024/8/ TI - Strategic Leadership and Sustainable Project Management in Enugu, Nigeria T2 - International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering SP - 249 EP - 255 VL - 18 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10013707 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 211, 2024 N2 - The study investigates the connection between strategic leadership and project management sustainability, with an emphasis on building projects Nigeria. The study set out to accomplish two specific goals: first, it sought to establish a link between creative project management and resource efficiency in construction projects in Nigeria; and second, it sought to establish a link between innovative thinking and waste minimization in those same projects. A structured questionnaire was used to collect primary data from 45 registered construction enterprises in the study area as part of the study's descriptive research approach. Due to the nonparametric nature of the data, Spearman Rank Order Correlation was used to evaluate the acquired data. The findings demonstrate that creative project management had a significant positive impact on resource efficiency in construction projects carried out by project management firms (r =.849; p.001), and that innovative thinking had a significant impact on waste reduction in those same projects (r =.849; p.001). It was determined that strategic leadership had a significant impact on the sustainability of project management, and it was thus advised that project managers should foresee, prepare for, and effectively communicate present and future developments to project staff in order to ensure that the objective of sustainable initiatives, such as recycling and reuse, is implemented in construction projects. ER -