Project Manager as Translator
3/5/2025
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In this episode, we sit down with Kristina Curtiss to discuss the unique role of project managers as translators—bridging the gap between technical teams, stakeholders, and business objectives. Kristina shares her journey from office management to leading large-scale healthcare and IT projects.
2:12 Kristina’s early career at Home Depot3:00 Transitioning from office management t...
Aligning Projects and Empowering People
2/25/2025
In today's episode we talk with Emma Kelly, a program manager from The Water Project. She shares about managing projects in the humanitarian sector where projects can span across continents...where part of your resource force is the community you are working in... and when you don't always have access to the internet. Hear about how program managers align projects with strategic initiatives and ...
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Passion for PMBOK Best Practices
2/18/2025
Today's guest is Jeremiah Hammon, PMP. His passion for PMBOK guidelines is contagious, and his company, Project Revolution stands, by and supports project managers who are headed to certifications or who want to gain leadership roles in their organization.
He believes in the power of people in projects, and we're going to talk to him about laying the best foundation for project managem...
Project Management in the 4th Dimension
2/10/2025
Today’s superhero guest is Kevin Perkins, a long-time technical product manager with years of experience shaping and considering SaaS product development. He joins Steve West, CEO of Project Insight, for an engaging conversation on their early entrepreneurial friendship and the evolution of project management—where it was 20 years ago, where it stands today, and where it’s headed in the future.
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Cutting Through the Chaos
2/5/2025
Our superhero PMP guest today is Sree Karanakarun!
Born and raised in India, Sree earned a degree in engineering and began her career as a mainframe IT developer. She quickly advanced through roles as a Business Analyst, Project Coordinator, and Project Manager, spending over 20 years in healthcare project and program management.
Then, she made a bold career pivot—leaving healthcare to...
Developing the Powers Within
1/27/2025
Our guest today is James Phillips, an Informatics Analyst at Altamed and a dynamic leader with a rich and diverse background spanning communications, public relations, marketing, project management, medical coding, and healthcare informatics.
James has been intentional about his professional development throughout his career. At every step, his sharp self-assessment has inspired him to ac...
Building Teams & Roller Coasters
1/20/2025
In this episode, we talk with Mehul Shah, the Senior Director for the PMO and Operations at Universal Destinations and Experiences (Universal Studios).
He started out in electrical engineering and found his way thru data analytics into project management. He’s worked at PMOs in many different industries at companies like GE, Siemens, Scholastic, and now Universal and is going to share ab...
Spreadsheets are My Jam
1/13/2025
Working as a project manager in the non-profit world is rewarding. The projects you work on help fulfill a mission-driven vision that you can "get behind." But they also comes with great responsibility when –for instance–you manage multi-million dollar grants that hinge on successful project outcomes. Our guest on this episode is Michelle Dickstein, a PMP from the nonprofit sector - who has many P...
Ninjas Need Balance Too
1/3/2025
This episode features "Time Ninja," Lindiwe Stenberg, PMP of PayPal. She's a master of setting realistic project timelines to make time for work-life balance. (Something often elusive in a project manager's world).Listen now, to hear about the "Gantt chart in her head" and how to stack projects to make work efficient as possible.
Productivity Balanced with Work-Life BalanceSetting Realistic Tim...
Call of Duty Meets Candy Crush
12/17/2024
In 2023, Microsoft acquired the Activision Blizzard gaming franchise for $75 billion and now owns games like “Call of Duty.” “World of Warcraft,” “Diablo,” “Overwatch,” and “Candy Crush." With over 400 million monthly active players across 190 countries, they take gaming security seriously to protect the joy of the game. In episode #2 of Wear Your Cape to Work, we’ll talk with cybersecur...
Chocolate Milk & Attitude Changes
12/9/2024
This episode of Wear your Cape to Work features Steven Hall, a project manager from fairlife, milk company. We're applauding Steven's knack for cross-functional relationships and learning about how his belief in farilife's mission to "nourish the modern world" fuels his daily project work...or it is he really fueled by chocolate milk?
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00:00:00 Welcome to WYCTW podcast
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