E96 Finding Passion in Your Work with Louise Gardner
In this episode of Project Management Office Hours, Louise Gardner and PMO Joe discussed the PMO space and how to push the start button, entrepreneurship, strategies that have helped resolve organizational resistance to new PMOs and much more.
Passion goes a long way when you’re thinking about starting your own business. Louise shared how starting her own company has made her feel that she has a purpose. “I dance to work every day. I’m having an awesome time and I’ve never quite felt like that. There’s lots of positive things to be said about corporate life, but I’m having more fun than I’ve ever had right now.”
Louise started her PMO career as a Project Controller in the Water industry in the late 90’s. Working with topflight engineering companies on large projects, she developed a passion for supporting project teams and creating transparency around project data. After moving to Sydney, Australia in 2004, Louise continued to work with Utilities across water, power, and transport before establishing Pledge Consulting in 2012.
“PMO is such a people centric Department team. It’s about giving people a level of comfort that you are there to support them on the journey. And these things that they think can’t be done shouldn’t be done. Let’s just deal with them one step at a time. Evolution, not revolution, is one of my favorite things” -Louise
Driven by passion for creating efficiency, quality and an overarching desire to help organizations get more value from their project controls and project delivery teams. Pledge Consulting’s mission is ‘To help organizations deliver value by doing projects better’.
Connect with Louise:
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/pledge-consulting-nsw-pty-ltd
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Pledgeconsulting
Twitter https://www.twitter.com/pledgeconsult
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Pledge Consulting are specialists in PMO and project delivery support. We are driven by a passion for creating efficiency, quality and an overarching desire to help organisations get more value from their project controls and project delivery teams. Pledge Consulting’s mission is ‘To help organisations deliver value by doing projects better’.
Our three service areas are Advisory, Delivery and People (which includes bespoke training and professional development)
Louise Gardner started her PMO career as a Project Controller in the Water industry in the late 90’s. Working with top flight engineering companies on large projects, she developed a passion for supporting project teams and creating transparency around project data.
After moving to Sydney, Australia in 2004, Louise continued to work with Utilities across water, power and transport before establishing Pledge Consulting in 2012.
Over the past 10 years Pledge has worked across multiple industries in both public and private sector, including Federal, State and Local government as well as a number of large Australian and global corporations.
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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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