Leadership Perspectives with David Barrett

Dan Watt, Head of Project Delivery, Wealth Management, RBC talks about project managers focusing on business outcome management.  

There are so many ways to build a PMO - Project Management Office. Many are the wrong way.  In this interview with Amy Burnet, past Sr. Director, Program Management Office at CIBC, we talk about the right way to approach your new PMO.   

Ted Kallman, author, consultant and trainer discusses his model for building high performance teams.      

I was introduced to Roy Osing by The Globe and Mail Leadership lab in early 2016.  Roy published an intriguing article about strategy execution - a sweet spot of mine.  We connected and I quickly convinced him to join my podcast series.

Roy is a leading executive in Canadian business and a recognized blogger, speaker, seminar leader, business consultant, educator and personal coach, Roy Osing’s career spans over three decades of singular achievement.

We talked about organizations that are successful and survive versus the ones that struggle, hang on and eventually fail.

Roy's recent book is titled "Be Different or Be Dead." 

Long time project management and portfolio management consultant, LeRoy Ward, shares his governance model for strategic portfolio management.  

Catherine Daw is a long time friend and colleague who specializes in leadership business transformation, strategy implementation, operational excellence and project execution. 

We spent a half hour talking about leadership styles and what it takes to be a great leader. 

I sat down with Linda Vella recently to discuss the role of the Project Sponsor: what isis it?  Why do we need one?  What are the major benefits and what are the risks?  

Samurai, (meaning “those who serve”), practiced servant leadership and these principles long before “modern management” proclaimed this approach to be vital to today’s leaders.  Harry Mingail's recent blog post prompted this interesting discussion.