E23 Dale Richards from Swattage and John Baley from PMI Phoenix
In this episode of Project Management Office Hours Joe Pusz, PMO Joe, and his guests Dale Richards from Swattage and John Baley from PMI Phoenix discuss innovative PM/PMO tools, PMI focus in 2019, and Project Management Leadership.
Dale shares his story behind Swattage, the Project Innovation Lab and tools they offer the PM community. Swattage offers the Circuit app connecting Executive Sponsors with Project Managers. They also have the PMO Value Perception Topography a method for measuring the landscape of how your PMO is perceived. Get a free report sample at http://swattage.com/pmovalue/
As a returning guest, John shared all the benefits that the PMI Phoenix chapter provides to its members including, regular dinner and breakfast meetings throughout the Valley, industry training, networking, and special events. John talked about PMI’s focus on the practitioner in 2019. Dale and John also have a great in-depth discussion on Project Management leadership and the necessary skills to become a stronger Project Manager.
Listen in to the full episode to hear the details from both of these Project Management leaders. We covered so much in this episode on Project Management Leadership and Innovation and I wish we had more time to continue the discussion. You can learn more about Dale and Swattage by visiting www.swattage.com. To learn more about John and connect with him, visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-c-baley-612567/.
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Have you ever wondered how your stakeholders perceive your project managers and their effectiveness? If you have, you should ask Swattage, The Project Innovation Lab. 
This Salt Lake City-based company develops new, innovative methods to solve real-world project management problems from enterprise down to early-stage start-ups with no project management function. Their proprietary method, called the PM Value Perception Topography, gives you detailed insight into not only your project management maturity, but how your project managers are coming across to your client stakeholders. Swattage continuously pushes the edge to discover opportunities for project management to make a difference in new market segments and industries.
Dale Richards is the founder and CEO at Swattage. He specializes in change efforts to help companies scale. His areas of focus include strategy execution, business process analysis, DevOps change management, project selection and delivery, project portfolio management and Project Management Office (PMO) administration.
Dale received the PMP certification in 2009 and a Master of Business Administration from the James Madison University College of Business in 2013 and is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the business student honor society.
PMI Phoenix is a chapter of Project Management Institute, founded 40 years ago. We have a membership of 2500 and provide Project Management training, professional development and socialization for our membership.
John C. Baley has been in Information Technology for the past 30 years and is currently retired. Most of his experience is in the IT Systems Development and Data Center Operations area. He has worked on projects or programs for many of the largest petroleum and retail companies in the world, such as Shell Oil, Conoco/Phillips, JCPenney, 7-Eleven, CITGO and Union 76.
John also is a top strategic volunteer for PMI, having been a volunteer for the past thirteen years. He started his volunteer work with the Dallas 
Chapter of PMI. He was the President from 2004 -2006 as the chapter continued in growth, and lead changes in the Chapter board structure adding positions to meet that growth.
John left the Presidency to take on the Region 6 Mentor role for PMI, Region 6 is the South Central North America region containing 20 chapters. He then worked on the Chapter Member Advisory Group for three years, followed by the OPMAG for three years. After that he worked on a special Chapter Awards project while sitting on the Alaska BOD as a Director at Large, and is currently in a new role of Chapter Mediator for PMI.
John earned his PMP Certification in 2002, and graduated with a Masters of Business Administration from University of Texas at Dallas in December of 2007.
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