Wear Your Cape to Work™
Wear Your Cape to Work is a podcast hosted by Project Insight. We believe that project and program managers truly are the superheroes of every organization.
Our guests have poured their lives and talents into driving successful project outcomes for industries across the world. They wear their capes to work every day, and we want to celebrate them. We want you to hear their stories and be inspired to wear your own cape to work.
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Wear Your Cape to Work™
Project Management on a New Continent
Fisayo Folarin has built a reputation for being someone you can count on. Whether leading digital banking projects in Nigeria or driving SaaS implementations in Canada, her superpower is reliability combined with a deep commitment to transparency, communication, and continuous & curious learning.
In this episode of Wear Your Cape to Work, Trina and Mathew talk with Fisayo about what it takes to restart your career in a new country, why project managers must be both curious and courageous, and how she helps teams achieve “100% efficiency” by asking the right questions and translating priorities between stakeholders.
Fisayo’s story is one of transformation from starting out in customer service to becoming a trusted coach and delivery expert in tech, fintech, and SaaS.
Episode Highlights
- How she went from customer service to project analyst before she even knew how to use Excel
- What it was like to restart her project management career after moving from Nigeria to Canada
- The four skills she believes every project manager must develop:
• Curiosity to ask why
• Transparency about what you know (and what you don’t)
• Communication that truly lands and is understood
• A willingness to keep growing and scale up your skills - Key differences between project work in credit unions and commercial banks
- What “100% efficiency” really looks like in project delivery and how she helps teams get there
- How she explains scope, priorities, and customizations clearly to clients
- Why emotional intelligence is an essential but often overlooked part of project success
- Her tips for knowing when to keep what’s working and when to adjust what’s not
- How she coaches others to define their own ways of working
- Her personal superpowers: reliability, transparency, and helping teams get aligned and deliver
🔗 Connect with Fisayo: LinkedIn
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