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Robin Reed with EmFluent and Eric Sperling with STN

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Robin Reed with EmFluent and Eric Sperling with STN

The EmFluent team are trusted business advisors who provide the highest levels of applied experience, industry knowledge, expertise, and white-glove service. We engage with organizations to improve strategic and tactical execution through comprehensive workforce analytics and custom-developed solutions.

We help mission-driven companies build and unite their teams by creating a strong culture. This occurs through alignment of leadership, talent, and sales with clearly articulated strategies. Our approach is designed to strengthen and optimize their workforce while fostering high levels of engagement and increased productivity.

Robin Reed’s passion for and extensive experience in business ownership and business consulting has laid the foundation for his keen ability to identify the needs of companies and its leadership, help them define and execute the actions needed to meet their financial and professional goals.

Robin has been called a “pragmatic visionary” and as an entrepreneur at heart, he has demonstrated this over his 40-year career. These experiences have led to Robin finding his next passion, which is speaking to and coaching executive by applying his ability to see what is possible and take it to the next level.

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STN is an independent media company with a vision to reimagine the local media experience as a product for social cohesion and actionable solutions.

Eric Sperling has over 25 years experience in local television. He has held producing, management and anchor positions in several TV markets and local affiliates including NBC Bay Area, NBC Sacramento, ABC Reno and CBS Phoenix.

He launched STN in 2012 under the name SPX Productions. The company was built by creating content for local business and non-profits, with the intention to one day centralize that content into a single platform for purpose driven content.

STN launched its streaming network in 2019 with shows and segments dedicated to local leadership, community growth and actionable solutions.

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E77 Zen and the Art of Strategic Alignment with Stuart Easton

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E77 Zen and the Art of Strategic Alignment with Stuart Easton

Are you working on the proper projects within your organization? Why do we even do projects in an organization? So much time in Project Management is spent trying to improve project execution and not as much on project selection and strategic alignment. In this episode we take a deep dive on Strategic Alignment and Portfolio Management with Stuart Easton CEO of Transparent Choice.

Stuart and PMO Joe share several anecdotes from their experiences which highlight the importance of understanding the value and purpose for project selection and strategic alignment. It doesn’t work to try to do every project. We do projects to achieve our business goals. The art of strategic alignment is to get the leadership team to own the decision making process and to agree on the overall business goals and portfolio priority.

Stuart provides several tools and techniques to help us improve our ability to prioritize strategic portfolios. One technique used within the Transparent Choice solution is AHP, Analytic Hierarchy Process. The process helps you define and quantify the value you are going to deliver to the organization. To learn more listen to the full episode.

Learn more about Transparent Choice – https://www.transparentchoice.com/
Learn more about Stuart Easton – https://www.linkedin.com/in/eastonstuart/

Thanks to our sponsors The PMO Squad and The PMO Leader.

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At TransparentChoice we’ve helped many large corporates, government departments and non-profits improve their project prioritization and selection.

Our software incorporates research findings from teams around the world that means you get the results you need.

Used by organizations around the world, TransparentChoice helps cut through the politics to deliver a portfolio that is truly aligned with strategy.

Stuart Easton is the CEO and co-founder of TransparentChoice.

He teaches prioritization at the University of Oxford and is a speaker and blogger on the topic of portfolio management and decision-making.

Connect with Stuart on LinkedIn and follow TransparentChoice on 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.

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.

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