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Wear Your Cape to Work™
The Power of Decisive Leadership
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In this episode of Wear Your Cape to Work, Trina Schaetz and Mathew Sparkes talk with Misty Boyd, Senior Director of ePMO at LION, about the power of decisive leadership in project management. Misty shares how directness, action, and outcome-focused thinking can help PMO leaders move work forward, support executive decision-making, and keep project teams aligned to business strategy.
This conversation explores what it means to be a decisive project leader without becoming overly command-and-control. Misty talks about learning to balance directness with communication, how PMO leaders can translate project realities into business impact, and why the best decisions often come from clear data, trusted relationships, and a shared understanding of priorities.
In This Episode
• How decisive leadership helps project teams move forward
• Why directness can be both a strength and a blind spot
• How PMO leaders support executive decision-making
• Why project work must connect to business value and strategy
• How to communicate tradeoffs, priorities, and project realities clearly
• What leaders rely on from the PMO when decisions need to be made
• How decisive people keep going when new information changes the plan
00:00 Meet Misty Boyd
02:05 From Trade Shows to Software Projects
03:00 Leading the ePMO at LION
05:20 Supporting the People Who Support First Responders
08:00 Learning to Lead in the Gray
11:10 Misty’s Superpower: Decisive Leadership
14:00 When Directness Becomes a Blind Spot
16:00 Untangling Years of Customization
19:15 Avoiding Analysis Paralysis
21:00 Balancing Speed, Buy-In, and Risk
22:15 Why Decisive Leadership Is Attractive
23:15 Helping Executives See Priorities Clearly
25:00 Connecting Project Work to Business Impact
27:10 Communicating Differently With Different Leaders
28:10 Showing Tradeoffs Before Decisions Are Made
31:15 When the Plan Changes
33:00 Picking the Work Back Up
34:15 Where Misty’s Leadership Strength Started
36:00 Final Thoughts on Decisive Leadership
This episode is especially helpful for project managers, PMO leaders, program directors, and operations leaders who want to lead with clarity, communicate value to executives, and make better decisions across complex project work.
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Project Insight is project and portfolio management software for growing companies that need better visibility across projects, resources, budgets, priorities, and work happening in multiple tools. Project Insight helps PMOs and project leaders centralize project data, reduce manual reporting, and give executives a clearer picture of organizational work.
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