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Sarah Younger has spent her career leading big capital projects in the culture sector, including at the Tate galleries and the Royal Opera House.

Project management is awash with jargon.

Picture a leader, and what do you see? A Winston Churchill figure, taking centre stage to give a rousing speech, steer a crisis, or make a bold decision? Perhaps a decisive strategist, acting with speed and confidence under pressure, such as Horatio Nelson? Or a visionary motivator like Nelson Mandela, winning people’s hearts and minds and inspiring passion? These kinds of leadership are hugely compelling: they rally people, they offer clarity and they shape direction.

I am well known for my objectionsto the phrase best practice.

Tamsin Alli-Balogun ChPP, Associate Director for Operations Management at AtkinsRéalis, is the winner of the 2025 APM Chartered Project Professional of the Year Award.

There are two debates going around the project management discussion sites at the moment that I find frustrating.

Not all projects will be completed successfully.

The ECITB is celebrating the success of ten people from across the engineering construction industry who have just achieved Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) status from the Association for Project Management (APM) while opening applications for next year’s cohort.

Well, it has been another record year for GCSE pass rates the 23rd straight year in a row! When the decision was taken to merge O Level and CSE systems in 1986, few could have predicted that such consistently high results would follow.