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he PMO and Project Leadership Podcast is hosted by Louise Gardner, Founder and Managing Director of Pledge Consulting. The podcast explores the ideas, challenges and emerging practices shaping the world of project management, program delivery and project management offices (PMOs). Across each episode, Louise brings a practical leadership lens to the conversations that matter most to project professionals, PMO leaders and executives responsible for successful delivery.
Designed to inform, educate and engage, the podcast covers a wide range of topics including PMO leadership, governance, strategy, delivery excellence, capability uplift and the realities of leading projects in complex environments. Each episode aims to provide thoughtful commentary, practical insights and fresh perspectives that listeners can apply in their own organisations.
Whether you are leading a PMO, sponsoring major initiatives or working in project delivery, the PMO and Project Leadership Podcast offers relevant insights and informed discussion to help you lead with greater confidence and impact.
Episodes

Jan 17, 2021
Jan 17, 2021
11 min
In the final episode of this series, the Founder and Managing Director of Pledge Consulting, and the host of the PMO Leadership Symposium, Louise Gardner, gives us her closing reflections on the event and touches on her big 3 take outs on how PMOs and Project delivery teams are working post Covid.
Louise call's out:
- Resilience
- Innovation
- Collaboration
As being three of the positive traits that were evident during the Symposium speakers presentations.
Stay up to date with Pledge Consulting's future events at www.pledgeconsulting.com.au/events
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Jan 6, 2021
Jan 6, 2021
1hr 3 min
This week, in the penultimate episode of the series, we hear from renowned portfolio management thought leader Stuart Easton.
Stuart is the CEO of Transparent Choice and joined us at the PMO Leadership Symposium to deliver a masterclass on portfolio/project prioritisation.
The session talked about some of the fundamentals of effective prioritisation, as well as some of the key business and cultural factors for prioritisation success. We had some great audience questions in the session too.
The session was captured on video so if you would like to watch a version with the visuals, head over to our YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN6brMaU6KI&t=64s
Stuart talks in the presentation about some the resources you can find on the Transparent Choice website and you can link to that here.
We love feedback and suggestions for future episodes @pledgeconsult on Twitter

Dec 8, 2020
Dec 8, 2020
41 min
This week we again take a look back to the PMO Leadership Symposium hosted by Pledge Consulting last August.
This week we revisit the Panel Discussion. We were lucky enough to have Project Management veterans, Amany Nuieibeh, Nicola Wilson & Dr Louis Taborda talk about their experiences of shifting from a face to face management experience to having to manage their teams in a new way.
As well as talking though some of the challenges, we also heard that there are many benefits to remote working and we even toyed with the thought that there will be no path back to were we were pre-covid in terms of working practices.

Dec 2, 2020
Dec 2, 2020
39 min
Will Thompson is the Agile Transformation Lead at Victoria University. Being based in the Melbourne area, Vic Uni endured an extended lock down during 2020, lasting for 8 months all up. Will talks about some of the strategies he put in place to make sure that the Agile Transformation journey continued during this time of unprecedented stress, and not only continued but continued successfully.
Pledge Consulting are Sydney based specialists in PMO and Project Controls. We help organisations do project better!

Nov 26, 2020
Nov 26, 2020
40 min
Neal Creasey is a specialist in Agile Transformation and has worked with many of Australia's largest and most dynamic organisations. In this episode he shares some of his observations and learnings from organisations through the pandemic. The presentation was quite interactive so the video is also worth a watch if you have time. (https://www.pledgeconsulting.com.au/blog-posts-videos-podcasts-and-insights/)
Pledge Consulting are Sydney based specialists in PMO and Project Controls. We help organisations do projects better!

Nov 16, 2020
Nov 16, 2020
48 min
Back in August 2020 Pledge Consulting hosted the PMO Leadership Symposium. The theme was Covid Driven change. We had some fantastic speakers and learned a lot about how PMOs and project delivery teams pivoted this year, to do things differently but to still get the outcomes they needed.
Sarah Foxe is the PMO Manager at City of Sydney Council and in this episode she shares some of the strategies she put in place around project governance.
