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™
Bringing Order to Chaos
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Brian Morin is the kind of transformation leader who can step into complexity, see what needs to be adjusted or refined, and bring order to chaos so the business can keep thriving.
In this episode, he shares the leadership superpowers behind that work, from building trust and listening through resistance to helping teams focus on outcomes, deliver value, and move strategic initiatives forward.
Brian talks with Trina Schaetz and Mathew Sparkes about how he naturally fell into project management, what he learned from leading large transformation work, and why the people side of change is usually the thing that makes or breaks the process.
In this episode
00:00 – Meet Brian Morin, a transformation leader who brings order to chaos
01:00 – How Brian naturally fell into project management through process improvement
04:40 – The shift from telling teams what to do to helping them understand what needs to be achieved
06:00 – Why even a perfect process will not work if people are not brought along
09:15 – Building the kind of trust that lets leaders support teams and still hold them accountable
11:30 – Standing up a compliance PMO during a time of high regulatory scrutiny
14:00 – Creating focus when priorities, findings, technology work, and resources are all competing
16:10 – Why transformation leaders need to see both the high-level picture and the close-up details
18:05 – Helping technology teams connect the work in front of them to the bigger strategic outcome
19:25 – A real example of helping a product team focus on the work that would make the biggest impact
22:00 – How trust makes it possible to challenge priorities without taking ownership away from the team
26:25 – Brian’s superpower: spending time with people, listening, and asking better questions
28:10 – Why owning mistakes and being transparent can build more trust than pretending to have it all figured out
29:30 – Leading Agile transformation in a way that helped teams deliver value faster and more predictably
32:15 – Staying level-headed when everyone is working hard, but the work still feels chaotic
34:45 – The framework Brian uses to look at outcomes, decision rights, priorities, trade-offs, risks, and visibility
36:15 – What resistance can tell you if you stop long enough to listen
38:10 – Bringing momentum to change
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