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Using Business Process Improvement to Empower Employees, with Yuquan Holloway, Holloway Consulting Group, LLC

June 13, 2023 by John Ray

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Using Business Process Improvement to Empower Employees, with Yuquan Holloway, Holloway Consulting Group, LLC

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Yuquan Holloway, Founder and Principal Consultant at Holloway Consulting Group, was the guest on this edition of North Fulton Business Radio. She shared her career journey with host John Ray, along with the influence her corporate career has had on her consulting practice, demystifying project management, upskilling and empowering team members, quantifying results of business process improvement, and much more.

North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Holloway Consulting Group, LLC

At Holloway Consulting, they focus on helping corporate technology teams set goals, create plans, and solve complex problems.

With well over 20 years of experience leading projects and programs for Fortune 100 organizations, they are passionate about helping businesses achieve their strategic goals.

Their team of experts leverages proven methodologies like Lean Six Sigma and Business Process Re-engineering to assess challenges and provide sound solutions and improvements.

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Yuquan Holloway, Principal Consultant, Holloway Consulting Group, LLC

Yuquan Holloway is a leader in the fields of business and IT. She is the Principal Consultant of Holloway Consulting Group, a consulting practice that focuses on helping corporate teams deliver IT and transformation projects, resolve systemic process issues, and train and coach associates on project management and Lean Six Sigma principals.

She graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering and holds an MBA from Georgia State University. With over 20 years of experience in leading large cross-functional initiatives, Yuquan has a track record of driving successful change.

Through her work, she strives to demystify project management, create a culture of standard work and repeatable processes, stabilize and simplify core applications, and reduce critical incidents.

Questions and Topics in this Interview:

History in Corporate America
Opportunity to Leave
Mission – Demystify Project Management and Problem Solving
Upskill associates by teaching them how to problem-solve
Pair training with coaching for long-lasting impact
Her online course
What skills does it take to be a solid project manager

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Bruce Orr, ProNovos

October 31, 2022 by John Ray

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Bruce Orr, ProNovos

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Bruce Orr, Founder and CEO of ProNovos, joined host John Ray in-studio to discuss his company’s difference making data analytics software for construction contractors. Bruce discussed how and why he formed the company, the problems construction companies have which ProNovos solves, why he partners with CPA firms to deliver their services, and much more.

North Fulton Business Radio is produced and broadcast by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

ProNovos

Bruce Orr founded Atlanta-based ProNovos in 2012 after hearing a construction CFO recount her frustration at running 40 different siloed applications, with missed opportunities for higher-order analysis.

Having filled data analytics roles at Citibank, AT&T, P&G, Kronos, and WiPro Technologies, Orr knew there was a better way.

The construction intelligence cloud he created now empowers contractors nationwide to rely on real-time information rather than guesstimates. In the field, they use ProNovos to record and share photos, drawings, submittals, daily reports, RFIs, crew and equipment resources, and more. Back at the office, they gain insights by pulling data into the platform from a wide array of project and financial apps.

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Bruce Orr, CEO and Chief Data Scientist, ProNovos

Bruce Orr is the founder and Chief Data Scientist of ProNovos Construction Analytics. Following his passion for data, problem-solving, and construction, he launched the Atlanta-based tech startup with the sole mission of helping contractors embrace Business Intelligence best practices.

Orr had previously filled analytics-related positions such as Chief Data Architect for Citibank’s Singapore operations; Principal Information Architect/Senior Consultant for Wipro Technologies; Analytics Architect for the software giant Kronos; and Data Warehouse Manager for Procter & Gamble Co. Orr has contributed to industry research by Dodge Data & Analytics and periodically speaks about the subject for CFMA and other organizations. He has authored analytics-related columns for the likes of Construction Business Owner, Retrofit Magazine and AEC-Business.com.

Orr continues to seek constant improvement and is on the leading edge of academic research into construction data analytics, having signed a research partnership agreement with Colorado State University in 2019. Orr is a member of CFMA, the Data Warehouse Institute, the American Subcontractors Association and the Associated General Contractors of America. Orr is deeply involved in ongoing efforts to improve construction industry performance and resilience through greater Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

He is the current Chair of CFMA’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee and previously served on the organization’s D&I Task Force, launched in 2020. In recognition of this work, Orr was awarded a 2020-21 CFMA Chairman’s Challenge Coin.

Questions and Topics in the Interview:

Why build a data analytics startup in construction?
What were/are your biggest hurdles in the process?
How are you navigating the issues with recruiting and retaining good people?
Tell us about your strategy for partnering with CPA firms. Why did you decide to do that?

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 over $13 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 every day.

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E82 Strategic Implementations with Antonio Nieto Rodriquez

July 18, 2021 by Karen

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In this episode of Project Management Office Hours, Antonio Nieto Rodriquez joins Joe Pusz to chat about #strategyimplementation and reinventing #projectmanagement . Antonio is a leading expert in Project Management and Strategy Implementation, recognized by Thinkers50 with the prestigious award “Ideas into Practice.”

Antonio and Joe discuss this year’s trend: Strategic Implementation. “The most significant disruption of the 21st century is not technology, artificial intelligence or big data, but it is the way organizations and countries will be managed – through Projects.” -Antonio.

Take a step back to discuss the impact value and the benefits of project management evolution. We often don’t know the value and what we need to deliver at first. By understanding the evolution of the process, we can progress further with our projects. Antonio urges us to re-invent the wheel and open new doors. We change the world with projects. We as PM’s get to create and develop these fascinating outcomes, but we sometimes might get lost in the noise. It’s our job to change the mindset and deliver new ideas. “Start thinking about how you would reinvent the PMO and the tools we have to deliver something further?” -Antonio. By developing something stronger, we are implementing new ways of understanding the project management tools and knowledge we have now to advance our career.

To find out more about Antonio visit https://antonionietorodriguez.com/ and see what he’s doing now at https://www.strategyimplementationinstitute.org/

Thank you THE PMO SQUAD and The PMO Leader for sponsoring this show.

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The Strategy Implementation Institute provides the training, certification, and resources to people looking to acquire the knowledge and skills to be implementation specialists.
Organizations are crafting strategies more frequently than at any other time in history.

This places a great demand on the ability to implement that strategy. Part of the challenge is that the current generation of leaders has been taught how to plan but not how to implement—at a time when implementation skills are highly required.

The high failure rate demonstrates this missing skills gap among leaders. It also drives the need for leaders to enhance their abilities and become recognized implementation specialists.

Whichever type of strategy you are implementing, the Institute provides you with the required skills through our online certification course.

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is a leading expert in project management and strategy implementation, recognized by Thinkers50 with the prestigious award “Ideas into Practice.”

He is the author of Leading Successful Projects, The Project Revolution and The Focused Organization, currently writing the HBR Project Management Handbook. He has been teaching project management for more than a decade to senior executives at Duke CE, Skolkovo, Solvay Business School, and Vlerick.

Antonio has held executive positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, BNP Paribas, and GlaxoSmithKline.

Former Chairman of the Project Management Institute, he is the co-founder of the Strategy Implementation Institute and the global movement Brightline.

Connect with Antonio on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

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!

ABOUT YOUR HOST

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

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.

E26 Ruth Pearce from Project Motivator and Michael Donnelly from Silicon Valley Bank

March 26, 2019 by Karen

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E26 Ruth Pearce from Project Motivator and Michael Donnelly from Silicon Valley Bank

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In this episode of Project Management Office Hours Joe Pusz, PMO Joe, and his guests Ruth Pearce and Michael Donnelly discuss using Strengths Based Project Management, progressing from good to great project management, building successful PMOs, and Ruth’s book, “Being a Project Motivator, Unlock the Secrets of Strengths-Based Project Management.” Ruth and Michael have great chemistry and the discussion flows easily between them as we get insights, tips, techniques, and tools. This is a can’t miss episode to learn Why you need to be more than a technically competent project manager.

Ruth shares with us the essence of her book, that building effective teams and leading successful projects is made easier utilizing Character and Strength-based Project Management. Ruth guides us in practical application such as how to observe the 24 character strengths within your team and how to engage your team. The natural powers of observation allow us to share character strengths and help our teams connect and grow through appreciation.

Michael shares his story and career path which has led him to his current PMO leadership role. Along his journey he has had many successes and he provided several examples which PMO leaders can easily adopt. Are you a Partner of Choice within your organization? Listen to Michael’s powerful story on his courageous leadership to engage his stakeholders. He also shares barriers he has encountered and how to overcome these challenges.

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Michael Donnelly is a PMO leader with over 20 years’ experience driving enterprise solutions. From a start up to a Fortune 50 company, from technology to banking industries, Michael leverages different cultures and learnings to elevate teams.

He promotes the art and science of managing projects and has helped transform teams by coaching practical PMI, agile, lean, and leadership techniques.

Michael is a Senior Manager with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). For more than 35 years, SVB has helped innovative companies and their investors move bold ideas forward, fast. SVB provides targeted financial services and expertise through its offices in innovation centers around the world. With commercial, international and private banking services, SVB helps address the unique needs of innovators.

Connect with Michael on LinkedIn.

The time has come to disrupt project management. Project Motivator’s processes are well-established, our approaches well-known. It is time to focus on people. We at Project Motivator believe that at fifty years old, our profession is ready to take a new position in organizations, and in the world. The organization is passionate about the future of project managers as influencers, and forces for good in organizations and teams. Their purpose is to build engaged teams who will run through walls for each other, led by an impassioned, empathic, socially intelligent project or program manager.

Experience, and evidence, shows that this happens when colleagues feel seen and heard, when they feel that failure is not a dirty word, when they feel safe to challenge the status quo and when they know their strengths, they are appreciated for their strengths, and they are encouraged to use and grow their strengths in everything that they do.

Ruth Pearce’s motto is Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious. Her principles are: 1. Create experiences that are supported by evidence and experience. 2. Focus on strengths – use strengths to tackle growth opportunities. 3. Build learning experiences through training, modeling and coaching. 4. Explore everything and be open to new ideas, perspectives, and experiences. 5. Share, collaborate and support others. 6. Keep learning and make it FUN!

Ruth has over 25 years of continuous project and program management experience, she trained as an economist, a lawyer, a mediator, and a coach. She holds her PMP and ACP certifications, is certified in various personality assessments, is accredited by the International Coach Federation and is a Certified Coach Trainer with the Center for Coaching Certification. She is also a Thrive Programme consultant, offering coaching for those who want to overcome stress, anxiety, and phobias.

Connect with Ruth on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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E24 Jan Schiller from Berkshire Consulting and Kevin Jacobs

February 26, 2019 by Karen

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In this episode of Project Management Office Hours Joe Pusz, PMO Joe, and his guests Jan Schiller from Berkshire Consulting and Kevin Jacobs take a deep dive into what makes a PMO successful, challenges in building a successful PMO, how to properly scope a PMO and much much more!

Jan shares her story working her way up the ranks, serving in varying roles across multiple industries. It is a common career path that many of us have followed. Jan has used these experiences to help build a very successful consulting practice supporting clients with PMO buildouts, Agile Transformations and more. Visit her LikedIn Profile to get access to free tools to help in scoping and building your PMO – https://www.linkedin.com/in/janschiller/

Kevin helps us understand the challenges of leading a successful PMO in a corporate setting. We discuss his experiences, challenges, successes and importantly his real-world, proven recommendations. We also hear Kevin discuss the importance of the PMP certification and how a personal experience changed his view on this popular industry certification.

Listen in to the episode to hear the stories Kevin and Jan share which paint a picture of a rewarding yet challenging career as a PMO leader. We covered a lot of ground in this chat and learned valuable lessons, heard shared experiences, and gained access to available tools and insights to help solve some of your PMO challenges.

Berkshire Consulting, LLC is a women-owned business specializing in delighting clients by linking strategy to results with project management. They put structure on ambiguity and help organizations achieve results in a productive, continuous, agile and cost-effective manner. Their high-caliber leaders provide premier solutions in alignment with strategies and priorities.

Berkshire Consulting‘s distinctive business model, combined with their selective recruiting process and criteria, are designed to deliver results that will help organizations realize high levels of return on their project portfolio investments and adapt to a changing landscape. The outcome is high levels of consistent solution delivery from professionals who become a valued part of the team.

Jan Schiller is a results-oriented executive focused on revealing the path that transforms ideas and goals into results. She collaborates to identify the most effective path from where organizations are to where they want to be. Jan helps organizations reliably achieve their strategy, delight their customers now and into the future, and digitally transform in a timely, cost-effective manner.

Jan enjoys sharing her expertise and experience in a way that inspires wisdom and maximizes potential. She enjoys volunteering as a career development mentor and writing about scope and project portfolio management for PMWorld360.

Her wildly important goal is to leave the world better than she found it, and to have fun doing it.

Connect with Jan on LinkedIn and at Berkshire Consulting.

Kevin Jacobs holds a Masters of International Management from Thunderbird, a Doctor of Business Administration in Information Systems focused on Project and Change Management from Argosy, and is in his last semester of a Masters of Science in Analytics from Dakota State University. He completed his PMP in 2015 and designed an internal PMP course, which he currently teaches. He is also a Certified Scrum Master, and has been designing internal training and processes to implement Agile, Scrum, and Design Thinking principles.

Kevin has had a professional career focused on MIS project management, with 17 years of experience as a Business Analyst, Business Solutions Architect, Project Manager, and PMO manager. He has worked in a variety of fields including banking, construction, telecommunications and document management. He currently manages the MIS PMO for a global mining company in Phoenix. His current focus is on providing better portfolio visibility to resource availability and cross project dependencies finding better ways to get management the information they need while reducing the impact on project managers.

Connect with Kevin on Linkedin and at The Project Scientist.

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E20 Naomi Caietti from Naomi Caietti Consulting and Raoul Encinas from PhosLabs

December 10, 2018 by Karen

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In this special episode of Project Management Office Hours Joe Pusz, PMO Joe, and his guests Naomi Caietti and Raoul Encinas discuss Leadership and how to be a better Project Manager by improving your Leadership skills.

Naomi shares the details of her new book, Transform Your Project Leadership! She discusses the 10 key leadership competencies – Brainstorming, Coaching and Mentoring, Conflict Management, Emotional Intelligence, Influencing, Interpersonal Skills, Listening, Negotiating, Problem Solving, and Team Building. We dig into these competencies and how they are beneficial to you, the Project Manager, to grow and advance your career. We also hear from Naomi some of her experiences as a consultant to capture her thoughts on the benefits of improving your leadership skills.

Raoul steps us through his experiences as an Executive Coach and utilizing Leadership exercises/techniques to assist clients on their Leadership Journey. Knowing we are not all at the same spot in our career, Raoul shares different starting points for improving leadership for a new Project Manager or a more season PM professional as well as for a PMO leader. A key for both Raoul and Naomi is to recognize that becoming a Project Management leader goes beyond just improving your technical skills. We must dedicate time to improving soft skills and leadership skills to advance our careers.

Listen in to the full episode to hear the details from both of these industry leaders. We covered so much on Leadership in this hour and I wish we had more time to dig even deeper. You can learn more about Raoul and PhosLabs by visiting https://www.phoslabs.com. To learn more about Naomi and her book visit https://www.naomicaietti.com.

Tune in for upcoming shows with Project Management leaders discussing a wide range of current topics and events! Our next show will be December 20th with Mark Price Perry and Don Hardenbrook.

The PhosLabs team of experts designs and delivers coach-facilitated workshops, events, and learning journeys that enable people to better respond to the dynamic needs of the business. PhosLabs’ clients are able to access the unique organizational wisdom that is trapped deep within their people and teams.

As the founder of PhosLabs, Raoul Encinas serves clients who crave fresh thinking, new ways of leading, and more meaningful work. As a credentialed executive coach, Raoul helps people distinguish themselves through their leadership craft. He leads a team that designs and delivers coach-facilitated learning experiences that transform the way teams work.

Raoul is the co-author and designer of a leadership development program for project managers that’s been used by Avnet, Comerica Bank, Charles Schwab, Insight, and several other corporations.

Over the past 10 years, more than 1,000 professionals have benefitted from his coaching and learning sessions. He has a BS-Business Management-IT from Western Governors University and is a certified coach through the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara.

Connect with Raoul on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Naomi Caietti Consulting (NCC) is a boutique consulting company that provides niche services to small, medium and large organizations in the area of project, program and portfolio management, performance metrics, and strategic planning. NCC assist organizations to realize business value through delivery of excellence in enterprise-wide projects, leadership, management.

Naomi Caietti is an award-winning business woman, widely respected global virtual thought leader in the project management community for over 25 years. She was an honoree in the 2018 Woman Kind book by Ferguson & Fox about the 2017 #CelebratingWomen Project. In 2014, Naomi founded her consulting company to meet virtual on demand business needs as a speaker, author and consultant. Naomi has been featured in national and international media/publications including the Project Management Institute, ProjectManagement.com, Workfront.com, Employee Engagement Network, Professional Woman Network, IT Metrics and Productivity Institute and ProjectManager.com. Find out more about her new book “Transform Your Project Leadership” at www.naomicaietti.com. Naomi’s passionately committed to making project leaders successful, to inspire women to lead, and be a voice for project leaders around the globe.

Connect with Naomi on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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E5 Jenn Tanabe from Vertical Measures and Kim Essendrup from Kolme Group

April 23, 2018 by Karen

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Kim Essendrup solves problems. For the last 20+ years, he’s been a Project Manager, Program Manager, PMO manager and consultant. He had lead international infrastructure and M&A programs, and delivered project management training and coaching to domestic and international clients as a PMI Registered Education Provider.

He is one of the founding partners of Kolme Group, LLC, which was started by three PMO managers who grew so tired of the accepted “status quo” of poor Project and Portfolio Management solutions, that they teamed up to bring Data Driven PPM to portfolio managers everywhere.

Kim is also the founder and co-host of the Project Management Happy Hour podcast, where he and his co-host Kate share honest discussion about Project Management, whether it’s chilled-out or on the rocks.

Connect with Kim on LinkedIn. You can also view Kolme Group’s free whitepapers comparing 100 PPM tools and key differentiators between PPM solutions.

Jenn Tanabe is a seasoned project manager who oversees Inverstis Digital’s (formerly Vertical Measures) project management team. She has nearly 10 years of digital marketing experience in strategy, content creation, SEO, amplification, lead nurture, and website development. At Vertical Measures, Jenn’s proactive, supportive and upbeat approach to leading the project management team helps in delivering successful projects to their clients.

In addition to leading her team, Jenn oversees the day-to-day team resource capacity and resource forecasting for the agency. She also project manages a few enterprise-level accounts, helping to plan, control scope, identify and mitigate risk, while effectively communicating with both her clients and her internal team.

Jenn is an Arizona local with an MBA from Arizona State University. She completed her undergraduate degree at The University of Arizona, where she majored in marketing. In her free time, she can be found walking her goldendoodle, Winston, cooking, checking out new restaurants, spending time with family and friends, riding her bike around town, watching sports, practicing yoga and enjoying the outdoors.

Connect with Jenn on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Using Business Process Improvement to Empower Employees, with Yuquan Holloway, Holloway Consulting Group, LLC

North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 672)

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Alpharetta Tech Talk: Joseph Garfield, Phase3 IT

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

Joseph Garfield, Phase3 IT, Inc.

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E26 Ruth Pearce from Project Motivator and Michael Donnelly from Silicon Valley Bank

E24 Jan Schiller from Berkshire Consulting and Kevin Jacobs

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