121: What Senior Leaders Expect from Project Management Professionals with Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez

PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills (Leadership) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! As the number of projects in organizations skyrocket, understanding project fundamentals and fostering project management skills have become essential. Leaders have too many projects with too little visibility into them, and they lack the project oversight and delivery competencies to untangle them. In this episode, […]
119: PMO Value in a Changing Landscape with Steven Fullmer

PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills (Leadership) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! In this episode, Steve Fullmer, talks about the necessary shift in understanding essential to thrive. Executives regularly navigate complex business, political and social environments. Yet, how does one choose the best focus, pivot, and sustainably adapt to the changing business needs? The 21st century necessitates […]
118: PPM is Dead, Long Live Strategic Portfolio Management with Ben Chamberlain

PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills (Leadership) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! In this episode, Ben Chamberlain, Chief Product and Marketing Officer at UMT360, talks about why true business agility is impossible if execution is disconnected from strategy. Indeed, Gartner now makes a clear distinction between traditional PPM execution tools and strategic portfolio management capabilities. If you’re […]
117: The Expanding Role of the PMO in Driving Organizational Change with Michael DePrisco, PMI’s CEO

PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills (Leadership) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! In this episode, Michael DePrisco, Chief Operating Officer at the Project Management Institute, sat down with Laura Barnard of PMO Strategies, to share some of PMI’s recent findings and thought leadership on how “gymnastic” PMOs are navigating the disruption of COVID-19 and beyond. Mike and […]
116: Why Agility Should be the Watchword of the PMO with Donna Fitzgerald

PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills (Leadership) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! Before project management got subsumed by paperwork, a project manager’s job was primarily focused on risk mitigation and risk avoidance. To do this job successfully required agility, rapid decision-making, and the right people on the team. In this episode, Donna Fitzgerald will explore the mental […]
111: Agile Transformation Myths with Jesse Fewell

PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills (Leadership) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! As PMO leaders, we are often caught up in the hot trend of agile methods and agile transformations. Well, in today’s episode, we’re joined by agile transformation author & expert Jesse Fewell. He’s joined us in the past to talk about this topic, given his […]
110: Using CQ to Lead your PMO with Barbara Trautlein

PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills (Leadership) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! I’m sure you’ve heard about IQ as a way to measure your intelligence and in recent decades we’ve heard more about more about EQ, a measure of your emotional intelligence, but what about your CQ, your Change Intelligence®? With massive disruptors taking place around us […]
109: How the PMO Can Generate More Strategic Value for the Organization with Wolfram Muller

PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills (Leadership) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! Are you curious about how your PMO can generate more strategic value for the organization? In this episode, I’m talking to Wolfram Mueller, a returning speaker at the PMO IMPACT Summit, about why the PMO is the best and only part of the organization that […]
107: The Most Important Change to Vastly Improve Your PMO’s Performance with Michael Hannan

PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills (Leadership) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! In this episode, we’ll explore why most PMOs are not designed to maximize IMPACT and how that affects the organizations they support. We’ll look at the most important change you can make to vastly improve your portfolio’s performance. My dear friend, Mike Hannan, joins me […]
106: Harnessing the Power of Energy in Our Projects with Rick Maurer

PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills (Leadership) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! Seizing moments of possibility—no matter how small—is the heart of building support for our ideas, big projects, and organizational changes. (This will be the focus of Rick’s session during the PMO IMPACT Summit) There are often hundreds of these moments of possibility during the life […]