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Julie Scales with the University of Washington and Project Manager Amy Bonnett E1

November 15, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Julie Scales with the University of Washington and Project Manager Amy Bonnett E1

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Julie Scales is a Senior Instructional Designer at the University of Washington where she collaborates with developers to create engaging content to enhance learning using a variety of modalities.

Julie has a background with over 10 year’ experience teaching adult learners in the US and abroad in Barcelona and Buenos Aires. She holds a Graduate Certificate in Instructional Design, a Master’s degree from the UW in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and a K-12 teaching certificate in Teaching English Language Learners and Spanish.

Amy Bonnett has spent most of her career in strategic program and project management in Fortune 500 companies. Her education qualifications are an Undergraduate Degree in Business with a concentration in Marketing and a Masters in Information Systems along with being certified as a Scrum Master (CSM) and Project Manager(PMP).

Her volunteer experience and passions are with: GLSEN, Phoenix Children’s Hospital’s- Family Advisory Council, and Scottsdale Parent Council.

About The Lurnist Radio Show & Podcast

Join us as we discuss the latest trends, “how to’s” and the fascinating things people are doing in the course creation business!

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Debra Hildebrand is the Founder and CEO of The Lurnist. She has over 20 years’ experience in consulting and over 10 years in corporate training and teaching in higher education.

She is one of the architects for the Project Management Certification program at the University of Washington, where she received the Team Teaching Excellence Award and currently instructs in the online portion of the program. Additionally, she developed and currently teaches two highly popular online courses at Stanford University. She has developed and produced over 200 educational videos.

Prior to building her own business, she worked as a management consultant for a boutique consulting company in the Pacific Northwest where her role included creating successful solutions for high profile, complex, cross-functional projects in the public sector.

She earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York, NY and she serves on the advisory board for the University of Washington Project Management Certificate Program and is a National Mentor for SeedSpot.

About Hildebrand Solutions, DBA “The Lurnist

The Lurnist provides strategic solutions for online business startup, marketing and course creation. We provide entrepreneurs, small businesses and service professionals with coaching and training to help them build a successful and revenue generating business. We do this by providing real action steps that can be implemented right away and strategies for automating work that is slowing down progress. Our motto is SIMPLE and ACTIONABLE.

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E41 Rich Maltzman with EarthPM Jim Stewart with JP Stewart Associates and Janelle Lee with FinTech

November 12, 2019 by Karen

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E41 Rich Maltzman with EarthPM Jim Stewart with JP Stewart Associates and Janelle Lee with FinTech

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E41 Rich Maltzman with EarthPM Jim Stewart with JP Stewart Associates and Janelle Lee with FinTech

Are you effective in facilitating Project Meetings? Are you struggling with the shifting landscape within IT as a PMO leader? We cover these questions and a broad list of topics in this fast moving show with Rich Maltzman, Jim Stewart, and Janelle Lee.

Rich and Jim give us the backstory and details on their book, How to Facilitate Productive Project Planning Meetings: A Practical Guide to Ensuring Project Success. Learn how to get past the goblins impacting your meetings. Jim and Rich also share tips and techniques from the book to provide practical solutions to be more effective.

Janelle shares her story and career path leading to a PMO leader role within a Fortune 500 organization. She discusses leading X-ennials and Millennials, how the PMO is involved in organizational transformation and also the shifting landscape within IT. We also hear Janelle discuss Maggie’s Place which provides shelter, life-changing programs, and services for pregnant and parenting women and children. Visit www.maggiesplace.org to learn more and see how you can assist.

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, PMO as a Service, and all their project management services.

EarthPM is a Project Management consultancy focused on generating long-term success for projects and project managers. It was established in 2009 and has since been engaging clients in the US, Canada, Malaysia, South Africa, China, Costa Rica and in Europe. It has focused on sustainability thinking in PM but has covered general project management consulting and training.

Rich Maltzman, PMP, started his professional career in 1978 as an engineer at what is now Nokia, after receiving a BSEE and MSIE degrees. Since1988 he’s been a PMO leader, including a 2-year assignment in The Netherlands overseeing a team of projects in Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

In parallel, Rich has taught at the University level for over 30 years co-authored several books on PM competency and sustainability, as well as a “how-to” book on planning and facilitating successful project meetings. Rich is currently a full-time Senior Lecturer at Boston University, teaching graduate-level courses in Project Management, Project Communications, and Qualitative and Quantitative Decision Making.

Connect with Rich on LinkedIn and Twitter.

JP Stewart Associates is a project management consulting and training company. We provide short and long-term consulting in: Agile and waterfall projects, portfolio management, PMO setup, best practices. We also provide training in PMP prep and Scrum methodologies.

Jim Stewart, PMP, CSM, started his professional career in IT as a network engineer at Harvard, eventually gravitating into managing IT projects. In 2003, he founded JP Stewart Associates during which time he has consulted to organizations large and small in regard to project management best practices.

For the past few years, he has increasingly incorporated Agile into his practice, most recently becoming certified as an IC-Agile coach. He has also taught masters courses in project management at Brandeis University and has taught hundreds of students in becoming PMPs.

He recently co-published “How to Facilitate Productive Project Planning Meetings” and is working at a customer in the Boston area on a PMO and portfolio management.

Connect with Jim on LinkedIn and Twitter and follow JP Stewart Associates on Facebook.

Janelle Lee is a Director of Project Management for a Fortune 500 financial technology (FinTech) organization. She is a Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), and holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Management.

She has been in the FinTech industry for 18 years and project management for 15 years. Janelle is a thought leader in her organization focusing on organizational and methodology transformation as well as process re-engineering. She has transformed several organizations and departments from traditional organizations and structures to value-centered delivery organizations with a flexible development methodology. Janelle is passionate about challenging the traditional project standard status quo and implementing programs which improve the effectiveness of project delivery.

Janelle is an advocate for advancement of women in technology and impoverished and underprivileged women. She’s an active member of w.NET (Women’s Network in Electronic Transactions) and regularly volunteers her time to Maggie’s Place, which provides shelter, life-changing programs, and services for pregnant and parenting women and children. (www.maggiesplace.org)

Alpharetta Tech Talk: Joseph Garfield, Phase3 IT

October 24, 2019 by John Ray

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“Alpharetta Tech Talk,” Episode 2: Joseph Garfield, Phase3 IT

Why should you outsource your IT project management? What are the characteristics of a successful IT project manager? Joseph Garfield, Founder and CEO of Phase3 IT, answers these questions and much more on this edition of “Alpharetta Tech Talk,” broadcast from the North Fulton Business RadioX® studio inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Joseph Garfield, Phase3 IT, Inc.

Joseph Garfield is Founder and CEO of Phase3 IT, which has one mission: To help people succeed with complex IT projects. The company focuses on enabling business leaders to develop a clear vision of project success and then make their vision a reality through exceptional people and processes that cut through the fluff and deliver results. Phase3 IT’s background includes such recent projects as the merge of Northside/Gwinnett Hospitals, rollout of Cerner EMR to Northside, large network infrastructure upgrades, and various upgrades and deployments. Phase3 IT has a reputation for taking ownership of project delivery.

Joseph has a broad technical and business background that enables him to quickly adapt to diverse environments and get complex projects back on track.

For more information go to the Phase3 IT website. You can also email Joseph directly or call 678-906-9308.

About “Alpharetta Tech Talk”

“Alpharetta Tech Talk” is the radio show/podcast home of the burgeoning technology sector in Alpharetta and the surrounding GA 400, North Fulton, Roswell, Johns Creek, and South Forsyth area. We feature startup entrepreneurs, executives of larger enterprise companies, and other key technology players from a region with over 900 technology companies. “Alpharetta Tech Talk” is hosted by John Ray and originates from the North Fulton Business RadioX® studio inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

“Alpharetta Tech Talk” is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX®, located inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with approximately $12.9 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you.

E38 Colin Ellis with Colin Ellis PTY LTD and Charity Carr with Olympus Construction Management

September 24, 2019 by Karen

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E38 Colin Ellis with Colin Ellis PTY LTD and Charity Carr with Olympus Construction Management

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E38 Colin Ellis with Colin Ellis PTY LTD and Charity Carr with Olympus Construction Management

As a Project Management leader are you focusing on your people? In this episode we chat with Colin Ellis and Charity Carr about the importance of the human element of Project Management. We kick off our discussion talking about Colin’s book, The Project Book. The discussion takes us to the people side of Project Management. As we focus on the soft skills of project management we recognize these actually are the hard items to focus on. We then discuss the importance of purpose and culture to achieve the results we’re looking to hit. The future of project management has us evolving away from the triple constraints and moving towards improving culture and providing value.

Listeners have asked to hear from PM leaders within the Construction industry and we hit the mark with Charity. She shared with us her experiences and the work she is doing to build and expand on the Mayo Clinic campus. We learn of the similarities and differences between construction projects and technology projects. Charity shares the benefits of IDP, Integrated Project Delivery within the design and construction space that leads to improved communication and teamwork.

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.

Colin D Ellis is an award-winning international speaker, best-selling author and renowned workplace culture and project management expert who delivers speeches and development programs around the world that inspire, motivate and entertain!

Able to draw on more than 30 years of public and private sector project leadership experience in the UK, New Zealand and Australia, Colin gets people talking through his emphasis on people being the best version of themselves and creating teams and communities they can be proud of.

Colin is originally from Liverpool in the UK and now lives in Melbourne, Australia following six years in New Zealand. He is known for his snappy dressing, sense of humour and love of karaoke.

Connect with Colin on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Olympus Construction Management is a Construction Consulting firm with offices in Phoenix, Arizona & Sacramento, California. They specialize in 3rd Party Project Management and Owner’s Representation. Olympus becomes a part of the Owner’s team and continuously represent their interests on the project. Beginning at project conception, they manage the entire process from planning through occupancy and even beyond. They listen to the Owner’s needs and implement their goals into each project.

With over 15 years of experience in the construction industry, Charity Carr is well-versed in many facets of design and construction. Owner, Project Management – Estimating, Budgets, Contracts, etc. Complete project oversight and management from conception to completion. Construction – Subcontractor Management, Assigned Division Management, Estimating, Project Engineering, Project Management Design – Revit Architectural Modeling, Test Fits, Interior/Exterior Wayfinding Sign Systems, Presentations, Database Design General – Document QA/QC, Employee Mentoring, Code Research, Software System Development Communication – Internal/External Team Management and Communication

Connect with Charity on LinkedIn.

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.

ABOUT OUR SPONSOR

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.

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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E34 Roger Haskett with Engagement Unlimited and Jessica Kuhn with Make a Wish

July 19, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

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E34 Roger Haskett with Engagement Unlimited and Jessica Kuhn with Make a Wish

We can all make a difference and in this episode we hear Jessica and Roger share insights on how to do just that. Jessica Kuhn shares that working for Make-A-Wish has tremendous meaning and we hear her story to get an inside peak at how project management factors into that. Roger Haskett shares that engagement and playfulness combined with meaning and purpose leads to results. Roger isn’t a project manager, but often works to teach PMs about engagement and the impact on teams. We learn about the power of play and how teams improve performance when members are actively engagement. He also shares the story of his first book, “The me you want to be, Roger’s rules for a bigger, better, more powerful you.”

An actor, author, speaker and leader, Roger provides perspective and experiences that PMs often overlook, but can find benefit from when we implement. With our inside look at Make-A-Wish, Jessica shares great insight on creativity, meaning, change management and team motivation. She describes ADKAR and the benefits of using a consistent approach for change. We learn about working in a federated organizational model and non-profit organization. We also get to hear the story behind Taco Gary!

Thank you to our listeners to help us reach #6 Best PM Podcast on the Web! 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! Our next show will be August 1st with guests Katharine Halpin and Nicolas Breeson.

Thanks to our sponsors PM Master Prep and THE PMO SQUAD. PM Master Prep is offering 20% off all services by using code PMOJOE at checkout on www.pmmasterprep.com.

The team at Engagement Unlimited creates more productive, happy, and engaged people through award-winning team building, education, and entertainment programs. Their speciality is transforming live events (workshops, meetings, conferences, events, activities) into potent engagement experiences which magnify the benefits to the participants and the organizations they belong to.

Active Participation, Internal Power, The Power of Play, Magnetic Communication Skills… are all outcomes of our sessions and the process we use as well.

Roger Haskett is an award-winning keynote speaker, author and President of Engagement Unlimited. His thought-provoking keynotes ignite positive transformational change in individuals and organizations across North America and beyond. Roger’s experience, knowledge and highly contagious positive energy have garnered him countless 10/10 audience rankings “best of conference” survey results and hundreds of return clients.

Roger has a B.A. in History and a B.F.A. in Acting (he’s been in over 100 TV Shows, films, and commercials), and an M.A. in Education. He has lived the last 25 years as an entrepreneur. He lives in Vancouver, Canada, with his amazing partner, three incredible kids and two persnickety cats. He spends part of each day wondering how he is so blessed.

Connect with Roger on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, and follow Engagement Unlimited on Instagram.

Make-A-Wish® creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. We are on a quest to bring every eligible child’s wish to life, because a wish is an integral part of a child’s treatment journey. Research shows children who have wishes granted build the physical and emotional strength they need to fight a critical illness.

Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Make-A-Wish is the world’s leading children’s wish-granting organization, serving children in every community in the United States and in 50 countries worldwide. Together, generous donors, supporters, staff and 33,000 volunteers across the U.S., grant a wish every 34 minutes, on average, somewhere in the country. Since 1980, Make-A-Wish has granted more than 285,000 wishes to children in the U.S. and its territories; more than 15,300 in 2016 alone.

Jessica Kuhn was born in San Diego, California to a family of technologists, gamers, and artists. After receiving her degree in English/Writing at the University of California – San Diego, her innate desire to demystify complexity, to understand and be understood, and to unite “the why” with “the how” led her into a career as a business analyst, project manager and operational strategist.

Over the last 18 years, Jessica has supported the launch and development of startups in the fitness and video game spaces, and led teams within Fortune 500 companies like Sony Network Entertainment in seeking clarity in chaos without compromising flexibility. Today, she serves as the Director of IT Governance and Compliance at Make-A-Wish America, supporting IT teams in bringing technical innovation to life and enabling chapters in their mission to grant the wish of every eligible child.

Jessica resides in Phoenix, Arizona with her husband, Bryan and her two dogs, Taco Gary and Atlas.

Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn.

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PM Master Prep^TM is simply the worlds best PMP^® Exam Preparation licensing system. There is no other product available to businesses and independent trainers that can offer the same premium courseware along with the rich feature set of our online exam simulator and study resources.

Our Courseware has been designed to be shorter, easier to learn for students, and easier to teach for instructors. Your students will learn faster, retain more and will pass the PMP exam!

E32 PMOps with Kim Curtis and Echo Woolf

July 1, 2019 by Karen

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E32 PMOps with Kim Curtis and Echo Woolf

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Are you familiar with PMOps? We’ve all heard of DevOps and SecOps and now we learn of PMOps. Listen to this episode to hear Kim Curtis share the experiences and successes from 30+ years in the PM trenches.

All of our shows are live and at times that gives us some technical difficulties, but in this episode our guests Kim and Echo Woolf worked through all of it and brought in another insightful show full of valuable content.

Echo shares her story growing into a successful Project Manager and Entrepreneur. We hear her experience knowing early on she would pursue a PM career and now working to help others through her consulting work and PM training. Listen to get her insight on how to get your PM career started and ways to accelerate your growth.

Tune in for upcoming shows with Project Management leaders and subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher, Spreaker or your favorite podcast platform!

Thanks to our sponsors PM Master Prep and THE PMO SQUAD. PM Master Prep is offering 20% off all services by using code PMOJOE at checkout on www.pmmasterprep.com.

True North Team Professional Consulting was formed in 2018 to help Program and Project Management Offices better position their teams to be successful in project delivery. We specialize in Team Building, PMO assessment, remediation, expansion and help PMO managers overcome the pitfalls associated with project delivery with large Project Management teams.

Our founder, Kim Curtis has developed a PMO structure that combines Project Management principals, Management by Objectives and Capability Maturity key performance indicators to drive success in project delivery.

With more than 30 years in the Project Management field, Kim Curtis has a wealth of long term knowledge for both process improvement and project delivery. She excels at creating structure in ambiguous environments including Enterprise PMO and Center of Excellence PMO Structures. She is considered an SME on Capacity Planning, Release Delivery and Project Scheduling and has helped several Fortune 500 companies improve project delivery, labor forecasting, and reduce turnover in high volume PMOs.

As a consultant for over a decade, she has diverse experience in retail, higher education, healthcare, and many other business sectors. She has extensive experience managing integrated project teams with complex inter-dependencies.

Her Key Performance Indicator tracking serves as a catapult to improving labor estimating, project schedule forecasting, change management and project budgeting that has transformed struggling PMOs into successful Project Management Operations Offices, her new PMO framework is called PMOps™.

Connect with Kim on LinkedIn.

Your PM Sidekick helps ambitious and experienced professionals, from business and technical fields, prepare to take the PMP exam with focused supplemental material that fills in the gaps compared to other material on the market.

They do this by helping aspirants understand the content by leveraging real-world case studies to apply the material and providing time management techniques to avoid burnout and increase information retention.

All of this, and more, to help you achieve your personal goals of getting a high paying, flexible role as a PMP, allowing more time for travel, hobbies and a higher salary.

Echo Woolf was never an ‘accidental project manager,” instead she consciously and deliberately chose the field that she seemed drawn to, and has continued to enjoy the journey over the past 8 years.

She has worked in public and private organizations working with clients in government, non profit and for profit organizations.

Most of her career has been spent leading enterprise SaaS based solutions.

Despite her love to work as a practitioner, she realized that she wanted to build and create something on her own, thus leading to her co-founding “Your PM Sidekick.” Her business focuses on a variety of consulting, coaching and training for professionals looking to get into project management, to prepare for the PMP and to refine their skills to further advance their career.

Connect with Echo on LinkedIn.

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E31 Darrell Gardner and Steven Fullmer Project Management Soft Skills

June 11, 2019 by Karen

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E31 Darrell Gardner and Steven Fullmer Project Management Soft Skills

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E31 Darrell Gardner and Steven Fullmer Project Management Soft Skills

Do you have an interest in the Soft Skills of Project Management? This is a can’t miss episode as we hear Steve and Darrell discuss a wide range of topics which dig deep into the soft skills which help us make decisions, work through change, understand how we think and interact with our teams.

Steve leads us in an abbreviated master class on social intelligence and human thinking and interaction. We discuss the chaos of change, survive vs thrive, decision making, and the power of purpose. He shares that who we are and how we interact isn’t random and that understanding ourselves and teams helps us deliver better through Project Management.

Darrell shares his personal story and how his own journey has been impacted by this examination of social intelligence. We learn how to take vision to action and utilize Project Management and PMO leadership to execute on initiatives.

Tune in for upcoming shows with Project Management leaders and subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher, Spreaker or your favorite podcast platform! Our next show will be June 27th at 11:00am PST with Kim Curtis and Echo Woolf. Thanks to our sponsors PM Master Prep and THE PMO SQUAD. PM Master Prep is offering 20% off all services by using code PMOJOE at checkout on www.pmmasterprep.com.

PMO In A Box, Inc. is a company focused on helping organizations (Large or Small) create, fix, manage their Program Management office. We offer a suite of People, Processes, and Tools to help any company successfully implement a Program to manage their projects. Whether they have their own tools and are just looking for help to define and implement a process wrapped around them, or creating a complete package based around our People, Process and Tools.

Darrell Gardner has over 30 years of experience deploying and maintaining practical and enduring IT solutions, specifically with data center implementations and associated systems migrations. As a former CTO, VP, Director of IT and Principle IT Infrastructure consultant, Darrell has significant experience in the transitional challenges of moving a data center and the applications that live there. A Web Connection MVP, Darrell has spoken on topics regarding Server Operations/Security, Time Management for the IT Professional, and Data Center Health and Process.

Currently Darrell is Founder & CEO PMO In A Box, Inc. A Consultant and Program Manager/Director with vast knowledge around Data Center Consolidation. Darrell has helped many companies implement Data Center Change including St. Joseph’s Health System, Broadcom, Toyota (TMS and TFS), Herbalife, Reliance Steel, Ingram Micro and Sempra Energy.

Darrell has spoken at many different venues, including topics regarding Program and Project Management, PMO establishment, Server Operations/Security, Time Management for the IT Professional, and Data Center Health and Process.
Darrell has spoken at The Green Data Center Conference, Data Center World (8 times), HostingCon, AFCOM Chapter Meetings, PMI Chapter meetings and West Wind Users Conferences.

Darrell received his Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from the University of Georgia, while competing as an Elite Gymnast on their Gymnastics team until 1986.

Connect with Darrell on LinkedIn and follow PMO In A Box on Facebook and Twitter.

Blue Sphere Solutions was founded by Steven Fullmer to aid customers to Organize the Chaos of Technological Change. In the process of supporting technological and engineering advances, Blue Sphere Solutions has evolved to become a leader in the development of project management including instruction, facilitation, strategic development, and tactical implementations.

Change adoption is typically as much a matter of perception and inclusion as it is technology introduction, process change, and systems integration. A wholistic approach coordinating service, understanding and technical delivery enables a sustainable solution.

Steven Fullmer is President and Chief Technology Officer for Blue Sphere Solutions, and a Staff Instructor focusing in project management course development and instruction for Interface Technical Training for whom he has authored more than two dozen project management and technology courses and video series. He holds Project Management Professional (PMP) and PMI-Professional Business Analysis certifications from Project Management Institute, an MBA in services marketing, and is certified as a Change Intelligence Professional.

He has been an engineer and principle architect for Honeywell and NEC super computers; a systems architect, security officer and cryptographic system manager for First Interstate/Wells Fargo Bank; and a primary contributor to the development of Internet technologies for AG Communication Systems/Lucent Technologies as a subject matter expert in the development Voice over IP development and a broad range of Internet related technologies as a lead architect or project manager. As an author and public speaker, Steve focuses on topics related to project management and social psychology – the sciences that help clients and students to adopt successful change strategies.

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E30 Change Management with Julia Steel and Renee Campisi

May 20, 2019 by Karen

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E30 Change Management with Julia Steel and Renee Campisi

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E30 Change Management with Julia Steel and Renee Campisi

Have your struggled with Change Management? In this episode of Project Management Office Hours we have an in-depth discussion with Julia Steel and Renee Campisi on Change Management and Agile for Business.

We often look at Change Management on a per project basis rather than looking at Change as an overall initiative. How are we working within organizations with Managers and Leaders to prepare for change? Julia shares insights from her book, “Buy-in: How to Lead Change, Build Commitment and Inspire People.”

Listen to hear Julia describe the 3 C’s, Confidence, Clout and Courage to lead to successful Change. Renee shares her story which has grown to founding Nimble Giants. Listen to hear her discuss Agile for Business and the experiences that have helped shape her work. She provides great insights with stories, tips and tools which help organizations and leaders implement change.Think of “Change Fitness”, just as athletes need to practice and exercise to improve within their sport of choice we need to practice Change to improve.

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Julia Steel is on a mission to help individuals, teams and organisations supercharge progress, navigate change and deliver results that matter.

She is an international speaker, author, facilitator, and coach, offering programs that help you focus on, implement and achieve strategic change.

Julia is the author of “Buy-in: How to Lead Change, Build Commitment and Inspire People,” is a graduate of Stanford University’s Executive LEAD program and knows that enrolling the right people, at the right time, is crucial to your success.

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Nimble Giants will work with you to figure out exactly what services your business needs to run more efficiently and productively using an agile for business approach. Once that is established, they will work with you to figure out how you can grow your business from where it is now to where you dream of taking it.

Renee Campisi is leveraging her 20+ years of Process, Technology, Operations, Leadership and Change Management experience to bring her clients Nimble Giants Consulting. Renee’s business consulting services are focused on helping her clients unlock additional potential within their teams as well as operate in a strong, flexible and swift manner to remain competitive in today’s ever-changing landscape.

Renee first began her career at Accenture in Process and Technology Consulting for Fortune 100 companies. She credits her passion for business and leadership approach to spending her formative business years at Accenture where she practiced client partnership, consultative solutioning, innovation, technical leadership and project adoption.

Six years later, Renee left Accenture to operationalize a Joint Venture Partnership Program for a Phoenix based startup. This entrepreneurial experience helped round out Renee’s corporate business experience and provided her with a deep appreciation of the commitment and determination needed to succeed as a business owner.

After successfully expanding the Phoenix based entrepreneur’s Partnership Program across the US, Renee returned to her Process and Technology roots where she lead Professional Services for Pearson Education’s School Systems Business Unit. Here she strengthened her Program and Change Management experience and furthered her Operational Leadership and Business Partner Acumen.

After five rewarding years with Pearson, Renee was asked to design and implement an Operations Department for Neudesic, a highly successful and innovative Systems Integrator and Consulting Services Company with 12 offices across the US. Here Renee designed and implemented Business Capabilities focused on Business Performance Analysis and Advisement, Resource Deployment, Internal Process and Systems Development, Strategic Initiative Management, Financial Projections and Capacity Planning.

Currently, Renee is engaged with a Fortune 500 Company headquartered in downtown Phoenix where she is helping her client revolutionize how data driven innovation project work get accomplished using the skills she’s acquired through the years while helping the change she is implementing last.

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