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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.

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.

Who would have thought that the topic of the current series of the Apprentice would have generated so much activity in the project management blogosphere? Almost as much as the Linkedin discussion on what should be the project managers theme tune - 79 comments and counting! In the Parallel Training blog, Paul Naybour has been talking about Lord Sugars capability as the project sponsor which prompted the question about which project His Lordship  is actually sponsoring? Answer the one that maximises his personal profile and the BBCs ratings.

When we talk about success in the workplace, we often focus on productivity, performance and outcomes.

‘Tis the season to be coming up with festive lists, and here at Project journal we’re getting into the spirit too.

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