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E100 Celebrating 100 PMOH Episodes with Asya Watkins and Kim Essendrup

April 13, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

E100 Celebrating 100 PMOH Episodes with Asya Watkins and Kim Essendrup

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E100 Celebrating 100 PMOH Episodes with Asya Watkins and Kim Essendrup

In this episode of Project Management Office Hours, PMO Joe celebrates his 100th show milestone with special guests Asya Watkins and Kim Essendrup!
Making it to the 100th episode of a podcast is a milestone worth celebrating and taking time to reflect on the people and stories shared along the journey. As successful podcast hosts themselves, Asya and Kim also share the lessons they’ve learned, the guests with the biggest impact, the guests who they are chasing, and the communities they’ve built.

Asya is the host of the Women of Project Management podcast and founder of the WoPM community. She started the community because she couldn’t find one that already existed to match what she needed. Asya shared with us, “I know a lot of people when they start businesses, they do the research and who else is out there? And I really couldn’t find it or I would have just joined it. And so, I just decided to go ahead and start it. And so now I’m just so grateful that we get to have these beautiful conversations, we get to learn. But it is something also about being able just to see other women that look like you and that are thriving in their careers and that there’s no titles, they let down those titles, there’s no ego and we share.”

We also reflected on some of our favorite shows and guests. Kim is one of the co-hosts of Project Management Happy Hour with his co-host Kate Anderson. Kim shared one recent show and a discussion they had with Tim Creasey, Chief Innovation Officer at Prosci. He shared, “I have to say, I have a professional man crush on Tim Creasey. It’s just brilliant. I just love any conversation we have with him.” He added, “It was really nice talking with him. He had a number of different topics he talked us through when it came to change management. And so many of them were really so profound that I found myself quoting content from the show to my colleagues, to my partners and then at home, which I like what you’re talking about, but it just really changed the way I think about change and the way people go through change. It was really profound for me”

Connect with Asya:
Company Website – https://womenofpm.com/
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/asyawatkins/

Connect with Kim:
Company Website – https://kolmegroup.com
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-essendrup/

To see the guest list for upcoming shows – https://www.thepmosquad.com/podcast
Thank you to THE PMO SQUAD and The PMO Leader for sponsoring this show.

The PMO Squad is a leading provider of PMO and Project Management services in the US. They assist clients building and improving PMOs, provide Project Management Consulting services, deliver custom Project Management Training and provide Project Management staffing services.
Learn more about The PMO Squad – www.thepmosquad.com

Where do PMO Leaders go for Information, Learning, Networking and Services? The PMO Leader community has “Everything You Need to Become a Great PMO Leader”. One PMO World, One Community!
Learn more about The PMO Leader – www.thepmoleader.com

Kolme Group is a project management consultancy providing top-tier Project and Portfolio Management services for medium to large enterprises. The Kolme Group team has decades of industry experience, and are ready to help you succeed with your critical projects.

Kolme Group are premier partners for Planview Clarizen and for Clickup.

Kim Essendrup is a PMI certified Project Management Professional and career project manager.

He co-founded Kolme Group in 2017, a Project & Portfolio Management consultancy which helps project delivery organizations succeed through best practices implementation of project management tools and processes.

Kim is also co-host of the Project Management Happy Hour Podcast. Kim and his co-host Kate tackle real world issues in project management. They do it in a way that’s not too dry, though it may get a bit salty sometimes.

Connect with Kim on LinkedIn.

Women Of Project Management® is the Only community created to support & amplify the voices of women & women of color in every specialty of the project management industry worldwide.

Asya Watkins is the Founder Of Women Of Project Management. Asya’s career spans 20 years as an in-demand expert in the project management industry working with top-tier brands like Walgreens, CVS/Caremark, Optum, & United Healthcare.

She has also served as the Director of Mentorship for the Project Management Institute (PMI) and was one of the creators of the 1st Women’s Network for Walgreens Corporation.

Featured in Forbes for International Women’s Day as a leading voice in the project management profession, Asya is an International Speaker, serving as the Keynote Speaker for the Project Management Institute (PMI) in Beijing, China as well as top tier Organizations, Leadership Conferences, as well as the Featured Guest on numerous Podcasts including the Project Management Institute (PMI) Podcast, Projectified™.

Asya earned her Masters of Business Administration from National University with a concentration in Organizational Leadership, her PMP® (Project Management Professional) global certification from the Project Management Institute, her LEAN Six Sigma Certification from United Healthcare’s Center of Excellence, and her undergraduate degree in Biology & Chemistry from the illustrious HBCU, Xavier University of Louisiana.

Connect with Asya on LinkedIn and Instagram.

ABOUT PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE HOURS SERIES

Project Management Office Hours is intended to provide Project Management professionals a place to drop in and discuss Success Stories, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned. Project Management Consultant Joy Gumz has shared with us, “Operations keep the lights on, strategy provides the light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.”

Each of us has a unique story to tell, but collectively we share a message that organizations who embrace Project Management Best Practices perform better than those which don’t. Organizations which align Projects to Strategy perform better. Organizations with Engage Executive Sponsors deliver better results. Organizations which measure Project Management performance outperform those which don’t.

During our Project Management Office Hours, we hear directly from Industry leaders how to make an impact in our profession. How we, collectively, will Advance Project Management Best Practices, One Listener at a time!

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Joe Pusz started THE PMO SQUAD to bring real world PMO Leadership experience to the consulting space and to advocate for Project Management through his blog PMOJOE.com. The old saying is “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Following this mindset Joe left Corporate America in 2013 to start THE PMO SQUAD and work with fellow Natural Born Project Managers to advance Project Management Best Practices.

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THE PMO SQUAD focuses exclusively on PMO and Project Management consulting. Corporate America is full of Accidental Project Managers running projects who haven’t been trained to be PMs. To help solve this problem THE PMO SQUAD is on the Leading Edge with PMO As a Service. PMO As a Service allows our clients to focus on their respective core competencies while THE PMO SQUAD delivers Project Management expertise. Contact Joe at 678-591-7868. Follow The PMO Squad on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Where do PMO Leaders go for Information, Learning, Networking and Services? The PMO Leader community has “Everything You Need to Become a Great PMO Leader”. One PMO World, One Community! Learn more about The PMO Leader – www.thepmoleader.com

E37 Andy Jordan with Roffensian Consulting and Ray Ragan with Vantage West

September 9, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

E37 Andy Jordan with Roffensian Consulting and Ray Ragan with Vantage West

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E37 Andy Jordan with Roffensian Consulting and Ray Ragan with Vantage West

Are you a PMO Leader? If yes, this is the show for you! Andy and Ray share their stories about what helps to make PMOs successful, why they fail, and what the future looks like. Andy joined us from Honduras and we leveraged his vast experience to learn some of the common pitfalls which lead to PMO failure. More importantly he shared the need to align the PMO to Strategy to be successful.

Andy also shares what we can expect with the future for PMO Leaders. Ray’s military background has provided him a unique perspective and experiences for leading his PMO. The results have been impressive with significant improvement and success. Listen to hear Ray share the steps he has taken to lead his PMO and the benefits enjoyed by his organization.

Tune in for upcoming shows with Project Management leaders and subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Spreaker, Stitcher,or your favorite podcast platform! Thanks to our sponsor THE PMO SQUAD. Visit www.thepmosquad.com to learn about the Purpose Driven PMO and all their project management services.

Roffensian Consulting is a management consulting firm based in Roatan, Honduras. It supports clients in North America and beyond with strategic management support, particularly regarding portfolio management, PMOs and related areas. It delivers results by helping clients to improve their business results through more effective execution of strategy from goal setting to benefit realization.

Andy Jordan is the President of Roffensian Consulting. He has led numerous business critical initiatives in Europe and North America and has built, rebuilt and managed PMOs in multiple industries from banking and investments, to software development, from corporate education to government.

Andy is a well known and in demand thought leader on PMOs and portfolio management with more than 1,000 contributions to ProjectManagement.com, as well as presenting hundreds of webinars, conferences and keynotes.

He is the author of Risk Management for Project Driven Organizations, of the LinkedIn Learning course Portfolio Foundations and has a new course, Delivering Results with a Business Driven PMO, launching on LinkedIn later this year.

Connect with Andy on LinkedIn and follow Roffensian Consulting on Twitter.

From the very beginning, Vantage West Credit Union existed to suit the needs of the community. In 1955, we started in a one-room barrack at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base with the mission to help Tucson’s airmen and their families. Back then, the humble DMAFB Federal Credit Union, as we were then known, served a little under 600 Members and had less than $60,000 in assets. By the end of the 1960s, we had already grown to nearly 14 thousand Members, sowing the seeds for the rapid growth we would see in the decades to come.

Vantage West got its current name in August of 2006, when the Board of Directors gained regulatory approval to convert from a federal to a state charter. The new name better represented the diversity of our Members and paved the way for continued expansion across the state of Arizona.

In 2010 and again in 2014, Vantage West expanded by merging with First Edition Community Credit Union and the former Tombstone Federal Credit Union. Despite explosive growth, Vantage West has retained its core mission of investing in our surrounding communities. Our Members are loyal to us because we’re loyal to them. As we continue to thrive, we are able to better serve our Members and communities so they may thrive too.

Ray K. Ragan, MAd (PM), PMP is the Assistant Vice President of Project Management for the Tucson-based Vantage West Credit Union. Prior to joining the Credit Union movement, Ray worked in defense and FinTech, bringing machine learning, intelligence systems, along with speech and predictive analytics to enterprise scale.

Ray holds a Master’s degree in Administration from Northern Arizona University with an emphasis in Project Management and a Certificate in Strategic Decision and Risk from Stanford University. He is a credentialed Project Management Profession (PMP) and has several Agile Project Management certifications.

Ray is a highly decorated U.S. Army Reserve officer, serving combat tours in Iraq and the Philippines and multiple mobilizations around the world.

Connect with Ray on LinkedIn.

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E29 Celebrating Women in Project Management with Elise Stevens Lynda Stanton and Kornelia Homewood

May 6, 2019 by Karen

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Phoenix Business Radio

E29 Celebrating Women in Project Management with Elise Stevens Lynda Stanton and Kornelia Homewood

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E29 Celebrating Women in Project Management with Elise Stevens Lynda Stanton and Kornelia Homewood

What an opportunity to bring together Elise Stevens, who started the #celebratingwomeninprojectmanagement movement with Lynda Stanton and Kornelia Homewood who were featured in the initiative this year. We love each episode and all our guests, but this one was special. It was a raw and emotional, an open discussion about something which has been left unattended for too long.

In our evolving world today, it is vitally important to discuss topics which may have been off-limits just a few years ago. Listen to Elise share why she started the initiative and also how it has taken off in just a couple of years time.

Unlike any of our previous shows, we didn’t discuss PM skills, trends, or techniques. This episode hit at the heart of the most valuable resources in our profession, our people. It was moving to hear Kornelia share her personal story and how she draws strength from Elise and other women within our industry. Listen to Lynda discuss the importance of having female Executive Leaders in her career.

The magic in this show was the connection with Lynda and Kornelia to Elise. How a leader from Australia has touched so many lives here in the US and across the globe. How the realities of being a woman in a male dominated industry are now being discussed in the workplace.

Tune in for upcoming shows with Project Management leaders and also subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher, Spreaker or your favorite podcast platform! Our next show will be May 16th 1:00pm PST with Julia Steel and Renee Campisi.

Elise Stevens holds workshops for women in project management roles to reinforce within themselves their true value to their team, company and industry. Programs include Improving the Diversity of Your Project Management Team, Exceptional Women in Project Management, and Return to Work Program for Professional Women.

Elise provides a channel for women’s voices to be heard, supported and embraced with my Podcasts: Fix My Project Chaos and Age Defying Careers.

Elise works with women who have extensive knowledge, skills and passion for their career, but unfortunately the high pressure and status quo within the workplace has left them feeling emotionally exhausted; they have lost confidence in their own hard-earned skills and are considering leaving their roles. It’s time for women to dream big in the industry, and to know that they can achieve their career goals!

Proud creator of this wonderful event, Celebrating Women in Project Management creating a community of amazing women together from all over the globe!

Connect with Elise on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

WebPT, Inc. develops electronic medical record and practice management solutions for physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists in the United States. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Phoenix.

Lynda Stanton has over 10 years industry and consulting experience in driving business transformations by using her skills as a business analyst and project manager. She has lived in the Phoenix, AZ area for over 12 years beginning her career at the University of Phoenix then consulting for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Currently, Lynda works for Phoenix-based software company, WebPT, as the leader of the Project Management Office (PMO). In this role she works directly with senior leadership to bring visibility to larger initiatives as well as managing various cross-departmental projects.

Lynda volunteers with several organizations including the Phoenix Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI). She also has a passion for animals and is a volunteer, volunteer mentor and chair of the advocacy committee for the Arizona Animal Welfare League. She and her husband live in Scottsdale with 3 dogs and cat.

Connect with Lynda on LinkedIn.

Kolme Group is a project management consultancy providing top-tier Project and Portfolio Management services for medium to large enterprises. Our consultants have built and run PMO’s, managed programs and portfolios in the tens of millions, and have delivered the biggest and most complex projects imaginable for their clients. Based in Phoenix, AZ USA, with offices in Seattle, WA and Amsterdam, NL, their team of experts can support you locally, nationally, and globally.

Kornelia Homewood is a Project Management Technical Consultant with a passion for supporting clients from discovery through the implementation of their Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) initiatives. She is often described as a well-rounded professional who brings a breadth of knowledge from her experience coaching PMs, building PMOs, and managing projects in technology, finance, higher education, and creative arts.

Kornelia is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Professional Scrum Master I, and graduated with distinction from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide with a Masters of Science in Project Management.

Kornelia lives in Mesa, Arizona with her husband and their spunky pets. She is an avid fiber artist and uses her PM skills to always keep her crafting Work-in-Progress (WIPs) under control.

Connect with Kornelia on LinkedIn.

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