Agile Ideas

Apr 14 2025 159 ep. 36 mins 27

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Agile Ideas. Agility in thought. Agility in action. Where amazing things happen. Helping you think outside the box.

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#158 | From Corporate Redundancy to Thriving Consultancy: Guy Thorpe's Journey

Apr 14 2025 54 mins

Career disaster strikes in the most unexpected moments—ask Guy Thorpe. Two weeks after receiving Employee of the Year honors at a major life insurance company, he held a pink slip after an organizational restructuring. This shocking pivot catalysed an entrepreneurial journey that would transform his professional path. Guy's candid conversation reveals how being viewed as "just an

#157 | Sustainability Meets Project Management: The Green PMO Revolution with Eman Deabil

Mar 31 2025 36 mins

What happens when project management expertise meets sustainability principles? Eman Deabil, Bahraini transformation management leader and award-winning professional, reveals the powerful intersection that sparked her global Green PMO initiative. Emerging from a desire to create something uniquely Bahraini that would impact the world, Iman's collaborative book project brings togeth

#156 | There’s No ‘I’ in PMO: Team Dynamics and Leadership with Bill Dow

Mar 17 2025 52 mins

Discover the key to transforming your Project Management Office (PMO) in this insightful episode featuring Bill Dow, an industry authority with decades of experience. In our engaging conversation, Bill unveils actionable strategies to elevate your PMO from merely functioning to flourishing. We dive deep into the critical elements of defining service offerings, crafting effective ro

#155 | PMOs Leading Change: Change Management & Organisational Agility (Live Webinar)

Mar 02 2025 60 mins

In this episode, we delve deep into the evolving landscape of Project Management Offices (PMOs) and the increasingly vital role of change management as we approach 2025. Today’s PMOs face the challenge of delivering projects and ensuring those projects lead to meaningful, sustainable change within organizations. With insights from industry experts, we uncover how the intersection

#154 | Throw Back Episode - #071 Jeff Wood - Transforming outdated PMO practices with Agile ways of working

Feb 17 2025 50 mins

Throw back to one of our favorites, in case you missed it! Jeff Wood has over 20+ years of experience in leading transformational change including the implementation of PMOs within both the public and private sectors. Love making a difference to organisations and the people within priding myself on strong servant-leadership, efficient and effective service design, delivery of compl

#153 | Throw Back Episode - #069 Steve Pereira - Defining flow, value stream mapping, capability mapping to transform your business

Feb 03 2025 60 mins

Throw back to one of our favorites, in case you missed it! Steve is obsessed with making tech human and leveraging it to deliver continuous value. For the past 20 years, his focus has been on using mapping techniques to guide ambitious and struggling teams towards their true north. He's a former startup CTO, agency consultant, systems and release engineer, finance IT manager, tech

#152 | Throw Back Episode - #055 Steve Glaveski - Being Time Rich, Entrepreneurship Lessons, Innovating in a Pandemic & the Reverse Side Hustle

Jan 20 2025 53 mins

Throw back to one of our favorites, in case you missed it! In this episode, we sit down with Steve Glaveski—entrepreneur, author, and the dynamic founder of Collective Campus, one of Australia’s fastest-growing companies. Known for his work in corporate innovation and startup acceleration, Steve has helped over 100 startups raise more than $25M and driven innovation programs fo

#151 | Throw Back Episode - #056 Vladimir Pacheco Cueva (Professor, Researcher, Author) - Project Academia & Industry, International Governance, Economic Diversification & Living with COVID

Jan 06 2025 120 mins

Throw back to one of our favorites, in case you missed it! Vladimir Pacheco is currently an Associate Professor in Governance and coordinator of the International Studies programme at the Department of Global Studies in the School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark. His current research interests include analyzing the governance mechanisms, economic policy prescript

#150 | Bridging the Gap: Aligning Change Management and PMO for Optimal Performance

Dec 23 2024 14 mins

In this episode, we explore the dynamic relationship between change management and PMO alignment. Discover why synchronising these two functions is pivotal for successful organisational change and project outcomes. We discuss the benefits of alignment, common challenges, and proven strategies to achieve harmony between change management and the PMO. With insights from real-world ca

#149 | From Kid Coder to Tech Leader, Adventures in AI and Global Tech with Martin Cooperwaite

Dec 09 2024 58 mins

Martin Cooperwaite, co-founder of Kiandra, takes us from his early days of coding adventure games as a kid to leading one of Australia’s top software companies. Inspired by his dad’s source code books, Martin’s passion for tech evolved from childhood tinkering to co-founding Kiandra with a friend in 1995, starting with local projects and growing into a global digital transfor