The Sunday Lunch Project Manager

In this episode, we have part 1 of my interview with Gary Lloyd, The Gardner, Not The Mechanic! Gary Lloyd helps organisations make sustainable change, by asking them to think and act like gardeners, not mechanics. It's an analogy that leverages familiar gardening concepts and practices that effectively combine: Systems Thinking, Behavioural Science, Design Thinking and Lean Project Management (wh...

In this episode, we have part 1 of my interview with Gary Lloyd, The Gardener, Not The Mechanic! Gary Lloyd helps organisations make sustainable change, by asking them to think and act like gardeners, not mechanics. It's an analogy that leverages familiar gardening concepts and practices that effectively combine: Systems Thinking, Behavioural Science, Design Thinking and Lean Project Management (w...

In this episode, we have part 2 of my interview with Sabrina Dennis, The Charity CEO. Sabrina is the Chief Executive of First Class Foundation, a charity based in Birmingham UK working with young people aged 13- 25 to do three things. Connect - young people to their purpose, by creating pathways to jobs, training, apprenticeships and other positive activities Build - mental health resilience Reduc...

In this episode, we have part 1 of my interview with Sabrina Dennis, The Charity CEO. Sabrina is the Chief Executive of First Class Foundation, a charity based in Birmingham UK working with young people aged 13- 25 to do three things. Connect - young people to their purpose, by creating pathways to jobs, training, apprenticeships and other positive activities Build - mental health resilience Reduc...

In this episode, we talk to Rich Maltzman and Jim Stewart about their book How to Facilitate Productive Project Planning Meetings: A Practical Guide to Ensuring Project Success Rich Maltzman PMP, has been an engineer since 1978 and a Project Management supervisor since 1988, including a recent 2-year assignment in The Netherlands in which he built a team of PMs overseeing deployments of telecom ne...

In this episode, we have Part 2 of my chat with Sheilina Somani, ChPP, RPP, FAPM, FHEA, The Positively Project Manager. Sheilina is a pragmatic professional with exceptional interpersonal skills. A capable and respected Project, Programme and Product Manager, coach, enabler with significant global business experience.  One of the first Global Chartered Project Professional's (ChPP), and also hold...

In this episode, we have Part 1 of my chat with Sheilina Somani, ChPP, RPP, FAPM, FHEA, The Positively Project Manager. Sheilina is a pragmatic professional with exceptional interpersonal skills. A capable and respected Project, Programme and Product Manager, coach, enabler with significant global business experience. One of the first Global Chartered Project Professional's (ChPP), and also hold R...

In this episode, we have Part 2 of my chat with Liz Hobbs, The DISC Personality Profile PM. Liz works to help you improve your performance and unleash your potential in a way that positively impacts you, your team and your organisation. She is a licensed trainer in DISC Personality Profiling and a certified Public Speaking Coach, and employs a three-step process of personal, team and organisationa...

In this episode, we have Part 1 of my chat with Liz Hobbs, The DISC Personality Profile PM. Liz works to help you improve your performance and unleash your potential in a way that positively impacts you, your team and your organisation. She is a licensed trainer in DISC Personality Profiling and a certified Public Speaking Coach, and employs a three-step process of personal, team and organisationa...

In this episode, I meet Gerald J Leonard, The Workplace Jazz Guy for part 2. Gerald offers a unique approach to accomplishing more productivity in the workplace. As an accomplished musician and TEDx Speaker; creativity, innovation, neuroscience and peak performance are part of his world.  He is a Certified Project Portfolio Management Consultant and a Conservatory Trained Classical and Jazz Bassis...

In this episode, I meet Gerald J Leonard, The Workplace Jazz Guy. Gerald offers a unique approach to accomplishing more productivity in the workplace. As an accomplished musician and TEDx Speaker; creativity, innovation, neuroscience and peak performance are part of his world. He is a Certified Project Portfolio Management Consultant and a Conservatory Trained Classical and Jazz Bassist who has be...

In this episode, I meet Jon M. Quigley, The Product Development Guy. Jon holds the PMP and CTFL certification with experience on a myriad of product development topics including process, quality and cost improvement techniques. He has nearly 30 years of product development experience, ranging from embedded hardware and software through verification and project management. Jon has won awards such a...

In this episode, I meet Jon M. Quigley, The Product Development Guy. Jon holds the PMP and CTFL certification with experience on a myriad of product development topics including process, quality and cost improvement techniques. He has nearly 30 years of product development experience, ranging from embedded hardware and software through verification and project management. Jon has won awards such a...

In this episode we speak to Bentzy Goldman,. Bentzy is CEO of Perflo, whose mission is to "Help project teams be more successful using cutting edge research and technology.".  He has worked in various areas of software startups as well as consulted organizations on business strategy. He is energized by finding better ways of doing things and the one that excites him most is how we work. Prior to s...

In this episode we speak to Sarah M Hoban, Sarah is a project manager, product manager, and strategy consultant who is slightly obsessed with productivity. Sarah has 10+ years of experience leading interdisciplinary teams of engineers and business analysts to execute high-risk multi-million dollar projects. In addition to productivity, Sarah is passionate about mentoring project teams, building co...

In this episode we speak to Sarah M Hoban, Sarah is a project manager, product manager, and strategy consultant who is slightly obsessed with productivity. Sarah has 10+ years of experience leading interdisciplinary teams of engineers and business analysts to execute high-risk multi-million dollar projects. In addition to productivity, Sarah is passionate about mentoring project teams, building co...

In this episode, I meet Ramon Vullings, The IdeaDJ, talking all things creativity and innovations and his new book Great Leaders Mix and Match.  He is also the author of a number of books in the creative space including Not Invented Here, Creativity Today and Creativity in Business.   Ramon is an engaging keynote speaker, author, cross-industry expert & ideaDJ, he speaks about bringing the outside...

This episode we have part 2 of my conversation with Andy Murray, The Major Projects Guy. Andy is Executive Director of the Major Projects Association (MPA)., A Chartered Director, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors (IOD) and a Member of the Association For Project Management (APM). He is the Deputy Chair of the the APM Governance SIG's committee. and was the co-lead author of P3M3 v3, the lead...

This episode we have part 1 of my conversation with Andy Murray, The Major Projects Guy. Andy is Executive Director of the Major Projects Association (MPA).,  A Chartered Director and Management Consultant specialising in projects and programmes with 30 years of varied experience (public sector/private sector, SME/corporate, domestic/international). He has a focus on project/programme governance,...

This episode we have part two of my conversation with Steve Palmer, The innovation Guy. Steve is a passionate, energetic executive leader with background in Innovation Management, Project Management, Data Analysis, and Software Engineering. Skilled at driving impactful transformational initiatives and delivering corporate value through innovative solutions. Strong background in stakeholder managem...

This episode we have part one of my conversation with Steve Palmer, The innovation Guy. Steve is a passionate, energetic executive leader with background in Innovation Management, Project Management, Data Analysis, and Software Engineering. Skilled at driving impactful transformational initiatives and delivering corporate value through innovative solutions. Strong background in stakeholder managem...

Today I talk to Adrian Baillargeon about Teams That Swear, his new book  in which he shares: How swearing can be a good thing for teams The latest research into what makes higher-performing teams How to create those higher-performing teams by focussing on just two things Insights into four types of teams and what you can do to avoid sinking, spinning and self-serving teams - and create one that sh...

In this episode we have part two of my interview with Ricardo Vargas returning to tell us about his journey in the project management profession. Over the past 20 years, Ricardo has been responsible for more than 80 major transformation projects in several countries within the oil and gas, energy, infrastructure, telecommunications, information technology and finance industries, covering an invest...

In this episode we have part one of my interview with Ricardo Vargas returning to tell us about his journey in the project management profession. Over the past 20 years, Ricardo has been responsible for more than 80 major transformation projects in several countries within the oil and gas, energy, infrastructure, telecommunications, information technology and finance industries, covering an invest...

Craig Mackay, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Sharktower AI With over 20 years of delivering projects and seeing too many failures, Craig is obsessed with tackling the waste in projects. Craig has spent his whole career delivering change; whether it be lean process efficiency, people change, software solutions, new product propositions or large scale technology transformations. Throughout t...