From Useful to Essential: How to Be the Trusted Partner Executives Invest In
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Some leaders keep their head down and focus only on tasks and deadlines. Others step up as the ride-or-die right hand. They protect their leader’s credibility, solve problems under pressure, and bring calm when the room turns chaotic. What sets you apart isn’t the number of hours you put in. […]
Reclaim Your Time and Lead With Confidence with Jimmy Burroughes
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Every great leader starts with clarity, confidence, and a team that can operate without constant supervision. Yet too many PMO and transformation leaders spend their days chasing fires instead of setting direction, leading to long hours, constant interruptions, and teams that rely on them for every decision. It’s not a […]
When Simplicity Becomes a Leadership Advantage
PMI Talent Triangle: Ways of Working You can be known as the leader who delivers every project, checks every box, and stays on top of every request, and still find yourself wondering why nothing truly moves the business forward. Ask any leader what their week looks like and you’ll hear the same story: meetings, dashboards, […]
How Adaptive Leaders See Around Corners in Times of Disruption with Ken Banta
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills You’ve probably heard it in your own head: “If I just keep delivering results, people will see I’m a strong leader.” “Once I prove I can handle the chaos, I’ll earn a seat at the table.” “If I follow the plan and keep things on track, everything will fall into […]
Does More Experience Make a Better Hire?
PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen If the most experienced hire was always the best, why do so many people with years of experience in traditional delivery struggle when the environment changes? You’ve probably seen it happen. On paper, they look like the safest choice—long tenure, familiar with every process, confident in their approach. But in […]
Why Project Success Depends on Leadership Behavior, Not Just Metrics with Dave Garrett
PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen A project can hit every target and still fail if the outcome wasn’t worth it. Stakeholders don’t care how well a project was managed if it didn’t deliver what they truly needed. In this episode of the PMO Strategies podcast, I’m joined by Dave Garrett, Senior Advisor to the CEO at […]
The Three Stages of PMO Leadership Growth: From Projects to Power
PMI Talent Triangle: Ways of Working You can be known as the person who delivers every project flawlessly—and still be overlooked when the real strategic conversations happen. It doesn’t show up in a skills checklist, but you can see it in the endless task lists, the back-to-back meetings, and the quiet pressure to always say […]
Exceptional Experiences That Build Trust and Influence with Neen James
PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen If luxury isn’t about cost, what does it really mean for PMO and transformation leaders? You know, executives don’t care about another report or another meeting on the calendar. As the pace of change speeds up and pressure mounts, what they really want is confidence, leaders who anticipate needs, remove […]
When You Call Your Planning Strategy, You Belong at the Table
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Some PMO leaders name their work for what it is: strategy. Others keep calling it status or delivery and wonder why they’re left out of decisions. It’s less about a job title and more about how you frame the work. What often gets missed is that the way you describe your planning […]
How Leadership Behavior Causes Public Sector Project Failure
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Most public sector projects don’t fail because of process. They fail because no one’s willing to confront the behavior that’s breaking them. You won’t find that truth in the project plan. But you’ll feel it in the tension behind green dashboards, the unspoken risks no one wants to name, and the […]