Elise Stevens

Podcast: Stuart Easton – How does your PMO add value? Project managers face a lot of resistance to change – but it’s a fundamental part of what we do. As Stuart Easton explains to Elise Stevens in this podcast, if everything stayed the same we’d be out of a job! Stuart is the CEO of […]

Podcast: Turning a setback into a step forward with Kathie Argyros When Kathie Argyros was made redundant after 27 years in the airline industry, most of her friends and family expected her to go into semi-retirement and perhaps pick up a couple of days work per week. Instead, she enrolled in a Diploma of Interior […]

Podcast: Kylie Stephan – SOS (Save Our Stakeholders!) Stakeholder engagement can be incredibly tricky – but it’s an unavoidable part of the job! In this podcast, trainer and coach Kylie Stephan talks with Elise Stevens about common stakeholder engagement pitfalls and why going back to basics can be the best tactic. Project managers are working […]

Podcast: Connecting with your clients with Renee Holdsworth If you’re a small business owner and you’re more motivated by your bottom line than your clients, you may need a time-out on Renee Holdsworth’s treatment table. Renee is a qualified beauty therapist who left a well-known company eight years ago to run her own home salon […]

Podcast: Karlene Agard – Value management on megaprojects If you’ve ever heard the term ‘value engineering’ and instantly thought ‘cost cutting’, Karlene Agard is here to change your mind. Karlene works in risk and value management for megaprojects, making sure organisations optimise both the financial and non-financial benefits of investment in major projects. Misconceptions can […]

Podcast: Making your career work for you, with Anne Fowler Wade Anne Fowler Wade is a failed retiree, at least that’s how her husband would describe her. The Soulmate Dance blogger and coach develops courses to help people find love and relationships. She’s been consistently self-employed for 40 years and says she has always felt […]

Podcast: Laura Barnard – Start with why? Laura Barnard will turn the way you think about project management upside down. After decades working as a project manager and PMO leader, she has managed to boil the game down to one question: why? Through her online training and coaching program IMPACT by Laura, and consulting organisation […]

Kestrel Stone: Why Developmental Training Is An Absolute Must For Project Managers Project Managers are uniquely positioned to bring more than just project outcomes to the business place, and no one knows that better than Kestrel Stone. During her 13 years of project management on various projects, Kestrel developed a highly-effective method for structuring her […]

Podcast: Sorrel Gilbert – Growing Your Project Manage Confidence As A Young Woman As someone who’s just finished her apprenticeship and has begun working as a freelance Project Manager, Sorrel Gilbert is well acquainted with the experience of being new to the profession. Having been asked to be on major Women in Project Management Panel […]

Podcast: Successfully leading a Project Management team, with Helen Hull Helen Hull is a Project Specialist who specialises in Portfolio Project Management. Having lead many teams consisting of a diverse number of Project Management professionals, she understands the challenges of dealing with different egos, attitudes and situations where everyone wants to be in control. With […]

Podcast: Elizabeth Harrin On How To Be Taken Seriously As A Project Manager If anyone knows about the challenges of being taken seriously as a Project Manager, it’s Elizabeth Harrin. After noticing how few women were writing and speaking about the topic, she realised that Project Management desperately needed a female perspective. Her goal of […]

Podcast: Why Project Management Is The Ultimate Balancing Act, Explained By Julia Steel For two decades, Julia Steel has shared her speaking, training and mentorship skills with UK and Australian businesses. She’s held senior business transformation and project delivery posts, working with businesses to help them unleash their true potential using trust and engagement. She […]

Podcast: Lifting the Quality of Project Sponsorship, with Andrea Brockmeier In this podcast, Elise Stevens is joined by Andrea Brockmeier to discuss how Project Managers can lift the quality of project sponsorships they’re involved in. As the Project Management Director at Watermark Learning, Andrea Brockmeier works with Analysts, Relationship and Project Managers, and Scrum team […]

Podcast: Every opportunity is a stepping stone, with Moira Matic Moira Matic is a Brisbane-based Disruption and Innovation Business Consultant who runs her own business, called Inspiring the Magic in You. With qualifications in business management, training and assessment, project management and neuro-linguistic programming, she helps businesses overcome competition using disruption, technology and change tools. […]

Podcast: Skills that PMOs need to be successful partners to businesses, with Lindsay Scott In this episode, Lindsay Scott chats to Elise Stevens about improving your PMO skills in today’s business world. Lindsay Scott is an expert at understanding how PMOs can offer a real value to any business they work with. For the past […]

Podcast: When To Make The Leap From Employee To Business Owner, With Clarice Lin Clarice Lin is a Marketing Strategist, Speaker and Business Coach who helps clients to adopt a data driven approach when it comes to their marketing. She helps them market their business and brand as well as get more customers and inbound […]

Podcast: Tackling Tricky Projects, with Carolyn Pratley In this episode of the podcast, Elise Stevens talks about managing complex projects with Programme Manager Carolyn Pratley. Carolyn Pratley is a programme manager with over 25 years of experience in executing complicated programmes with strict budget, delivery, customer satisfaction, target and growth requirements. A lot of her […]

Podcast: Become a more effective and likeable leader, with Sally Foley-Lewis Sally Foley-Lewis is a productivity and leadership expert with over two decades of experience in coaching, mentoring and developing leaders and managers in Australia and all around the world. In this interview, she discusses her career story, the importance of networking and the importance […]

Delivering impactful business value as a project management professional, with Marisa Silva Have you ever found yourself wondering how you can improve your service delivery as a project management professional (PMO)? Many PMOs partner with organisations to help them perform better and fulfil their business potential, but find it challenging to deliver impactful value in […]

Showing empathy as a project manager, with Elena Zagorenko Have you ever had a conversation with a colleague or boss and later realised they weren’t listening to a word you said? Chances are they weren’t practicing active listening. Maybe you’re guilty of this yourself? For a long time, people have taken a backseat in project […]