What to Expect in 2025: A Guide for Project Professionals
With guests Sanjukta Ghosh and Alexandra Schutz
What can project professionals around the globe expect to face in 2025? We talk with project leaders to help you prepare. Guests discuss what’s next for artificial intelligence, the increasing role sustainability and project management offices will play in value delivery and the must-have skills for 2025. They’ll also dive into the biggest lessons learned from 2024 that they’re carrying into the new year.

How to Deliver Positive Social Impact
With guests Karlijn Sibbel and Grzegorz Wach
To ensure projects deliver real social impact, organizations and their teams need to set clear targets, track progress—and adjust when plans and variables shift. Guests discuss how they measure a project’s social impact, the top challenges teams face when gathering critical data, and how their efforts help ensure social impact projects remain a priority amid greater scrutiny.

Powerful Partnerships: Collaborating to Achieve UN SDGs
With guests Jenny Buccos and Simon Dyer
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an urgent call to action to help people and the planet—and projects aligned to those goals require strong collaboration with stakeholders. We speak with two project leaders whose initiatives made the PMI 2024 Most Influential Projects list. They explain how their engagement with key stakeholders—from government agencies to teachers and farmers—helped deliver positive social impact and make headway on UN SDGs.

How Tech is Powering the Clean Energy Transition
With guests Gary Archer, PMP and Thiago Wronski, PMP
Public and private organizations across the globe are taking action to reach net-zero emissions targets—investing heavily in new technology to build resilient and efficient energy systems. Guests discuss the push for cleaner energy, the tech their teams use to develop cleaner energy solutions and the skills project professionals need to lead these projects.

The Project Management Skills That Keep Creatives On Track
With guests Matt Austin, PMP and Jill Lyons
Today’s creative agencies need to move rapidly, whether they’re executing campaigns, capitalizing on pop culture moments or averting a crisis. Project management helps channel that urgency into strong execution and buzz-worthy results.

A New Orbit: How Project Teams Are Using AI in Space
With guests Dave Evans and Dave Salvagnini
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making one giant leap in the space industry. In celebration of World Space Week, we’re highlighting how project teams are tapping AI for space exploration and innovation. A project leader from the European Space Agency shares how his team created a “flying laboratory” so that other organizations from across the globe could experiment with new tech—including AI—in space. And NASA’s chief artificial intelligence officer shares how teams are using AI on projects and how the U.S. space agency is ensuring ethical, responsible AI use across teams.

Why AI Ethics Matters in Project Management
With guests Naveen Goud Bobburi, PMP and Lea Li, PMP
Artificial intelligence is fundamentally shifting how we work, but it’s imperative to use the emerging tech responsibly. Guests explore the major AI ethics concerns for project professionals and recommend good practices teams can employ to use and create ethical AI. They also share examples of how project teams handle AI ethics concerns—and how those concerns can impact companies’ regulatory compliance, reputation, risk management and even innovation.

The Power to Defuse: Tips for Conflict Resolution on Project Teams
With guests Tareka Wheeler, PMP; and Prabhath Gunawardhana, PMP
Conflict can occur on any project. And project professionals should know how to defuse it. Guests share tips for resolving conflicts on projects, how these strategies shift depending on the source, the must-have skills for effective conflict resolution and how project professionals can strengthen their conflict resolution capabilities.

Learning from Mistakes: How Project Professionals Grow from Failure
With guests Alexandra Schutz, PMI-ACP, PMP; Brian Dlamini, PMI-RMP, PMP; and Valentina Barou, PMP
Mistakes happen. It’s how you respond that really matters. In a group discussion, three project professionals share how they turned failure into lessons learned and career maturity. How do you help team members overcome mistakes? And how can project leaders create a culture that accepts mistakes—and spins them into opportunities for greater efficiency and innovation?

Seeding Sustainability: Agriculture Innovations to Feed Future Generations
With guests Lucia von Reusner and Ahmad Hammoud
The agriculture industry will need to feed a projected 10 billion people by 2050. To meet this demand, project teams are transforming production—finding climate-friendly ways to maximize yields. Guests share how they’re helping agriculture giants like Cargill reduce carbon emissions through supply chain operations and farming practices. Plus, how indoor farms are delivering fresh produce year-round in Dubai’s desert climate.

From the Olympics to F1: How Project Teams are Making Events More Sustainable
With guests Adriana Figueiredo and Danny Klima, PMP, PgMP
Project teams behind the biggest events must manage stakeholders and resources to deliver thrilling experiences. But there’s a growing focus on sustainability, too—making sure events mitigate negative impacts on the planet. We speak with project leaders making two major spectacles—the Paris Olympics and Formula 1’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix—more sustainable.

How to Create a Culture of Innovation
With guests Jack Casaccio, PMP, and André Gonçalves, PMP
A strong innovation culture can transform organizations—seeding a first-mover mindset that empowers teams to discover whole new ways of thinking. Guests discuss strategies to develop mindsets and create spaces where team members feel comfortable to explore, the project management office’s growing role to nurture new ideas, and how to ensure innovation initiatives drive real value.

Mentor and Mentee: Learning from One Another
With guests Nigel Smith, PMP and Joy Simiyu, PMP
There’s a generational shift in the workforce—and the newest members are bringing new ideas to mentorship. Our joint discussion with a mentor and mentee explores their experience and the shared benefits. The conversation includes strategies for discussing and setting career goals, the biggest lessons they’ve learned from one another, and how those learnings have helped advance their careers. Plus, why project professionals should consider mentorship.

How Startups Are Reimagining Agile
With guests Terralynn Forsyth and Tatiana Cziomer
Startups need to stay lean to deliver results in today’s stagnant global economy. As they reassess how to manage projects, startups are refining how they use agile. Guests discuss how their ways of working have evolved to meet the changing needs of their projects—and the marketplace—and how they’re finding opportunities to incorporate AI into agile.

Career Development: How Project Managers Can Thrive With AI
With guests Luciano Lira, PMO-CP, PMI-ACP, PMP and Yi Bao, PMP
Artificial intelligence is transforming how project managers work, helping them build schedules, analyze data and identify risks. So what skills and knowledge will help project professionals thrive in the AI era? Guests discuss practical ways to build AI acumen—and how marketing your AI expertise can deliver a career advantage.

How to Balance Technology and Well-Being in the Digital Age
With guests Serban Morea, PMP and Santhosh Nair, PMP
Today’s tech-driven ways of working often mean more efficiency and flexibility. But all that hyperconnectivity can risk the well-being of project teams. Guests flag the potential warning signs for digital burnout, how they set boundaries, and explain how project leaders can support teams to preserve a healthy relationship with work-related tech.

What’s Next? Navigating Your Project Management Career
With guests Inês Machado Vaz and Stalin Ramirez Valenzuela
A career in project management isn’t always linear. Some people gradually advance from one position to the next, while others come to the profession from a different career path. Guests discuss their moves, how they assess when they’re ready for a new role, and why you should always invest in yourself to prepare for the next opportunity before it arrives.

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