Are you and your project teams struggling to foster collaborative relationships and
deliver extraordinary results?
Is your project team experiencing uncertainty and confusion when engaging with stakeholders to embrace continuous change?
Real Project Leadership is about behaviours and actions, not titles, and everyone has a role to play.
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Inside the cover
This is a practical ‘when I need it book’.
Read a couple of pages and reflect. Jot down some ideas, pick one and take action.
I hope that, after several months and years, this book looks tired and well used, full of notes and highlighter marks.
You will explore the three pillars and fifteen ingredients of real project leadership:
Self leadership
self-awareness, values and principles, growth mindset, discipline, self-discipline
Solution leadership
critical thinking, innovation, adaptability, problem solving, risk management
Practice leadership
decision making, team building, communication, delegation, performance management
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Book reviews
“I really enjoyed it. The content is very aligned to my way of thinking and I think it’s so important to see how these personal skills and experience impact our work. It was super easy and nice to read too.”
– Tanya, Senior Change Lead
“I like how you build the linkage, use a story, and then say how you can build awareness. This last part is the most important! Actionable assessments and improvement suggestions make it real. They can turn it from an interesting read into a textbook for improvement that people can sticky label.”
– Brett, Executive Coach
“I thoroughly enjoyed reading your book JC. It’s full of wisdom that can significantly help those who feel stuck in their projects or leadership roles. Looking forward to the next one.”
– Sandra, Strategy & Operations Advisor
Hello, you can call me JC.
My first name, Jeanette, is also my mother’s middle name.
My girls, daughter Kirsty and granddaughter Willow, are my inspiration, my why.
Growing up on a farm in country Queensland, every day there was a job to do – before school, after school and on the weekends. No complaints, life was simple. Maths and science were my favourite subjects at school. From as early as I can remember, I wanted to be a school teacher but that is not what played out.
I spent more than twenty-five years leading large projects in government, education and utility sectors, working as a logistics officer, contracts administrator, PMO coordinator, project manager and program director. This provided development opportunities to strengthen my skills and knowledge about real project leadership. I didn’t start off thinking, ‘I am going to be a project professional’, but with my curiosity and appetite to learn I continuously put up my hand for the next challenge.
That said, the most impactful learning I had about leadership and teamwork was in the sporting arena. I was privileged to be part of AFL participation and talent programs for twenty years.
In 2017, based on hundreds of hours of interviews and research, and unpacking all of my own project case studies, I developed The Project Ecosystem® – a planning and delivery framework. This framework is the basis of all my programs and workshops.
This was the start of my practice. I now help organisations with their business transformation journeys; integrating customer, product, process, technology and leadership capabilities.