Category Archives: #Storyworthy

April 26

Lead and Deliver’s origin story

Every superheroine has a good origin story… Lead and deliver was born on November 5th, 2014 after weeks of assessments and intense self-reflection. I began the Find Your Forte program merely wanting to identify what I wanted to be when I grew up. I had a track record of delivery excellence. I was definitely recognized as […]

March 13

Two Key Considerations When Building a Dashboard: Interesting vs. Useful

I love data.   Who doesn’t nowadays? We are in the middle of a big data revolution with technology solutions and have so much data accessible to us. With that, many of us are asked to provide our leadership with a dashboard to measure business performance metrics and other key performance indicators.   This has happened to me […]

December 08

#storyworthy – Collaborating for Extraordinary Results

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” –Andrew Carnegie The Challenge I was a part of a technology division in a company that was undergoing significant change. Translation – layoffs and […]

November 12

#storyworthy – About that time I had my dream job starting a PMO

…the only way to do great work is to love what you do… -Steve Jobs The Challenge We were the Project Management Office for a new technology division in a matrixed organization. There was no enterprise-wide PMO and very little project management governance, although Finance and Business Operations had project approval processes. We were a team made up of functional resources […]