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Description
Are you known as someone who gets projects done — but not yet seen as ready for a bigger mandate? Do people trust you with timelines, trackers, risks, and follow-ups, but not always with portfolio thinking, business trade-offs, or leadership-level decisions? Are you doing the work of a senior project leader, but still being evaluated like a dependable execution manager? And does that leave you wondering what actually changes between being a good project manager and becoming a strategic delivery leader? This is where many capable project professionals get stuck. You are reliable. You are organised. You are trusted when things need to move. But career progression in project management is not only about managing more work. At the next level, the question changes. Can you lead through ambiguity? Can you influence senior stakeholders? Can you connect delivery to business outcomes? Can you manage trade-offs, not just tasks? Can you build rhythm, accountability, and confidence across teams that do not report to you? The real question is not, “How do I prove I am working hard enough?” The better question is: How do I reposition myself from project owner to delivery leader? The Project Management Career Progression Sprint is designed for project managers, PMO professionals, delivery managers, and transformation professionals who want to move into senior PM, program management, portfolio, delivery leadership, or business transformation roles. Across the sprint, we examine your current role, career ceiling, stakeholder reputation, leadership gaps, delivery strengths, visibility pattern, and next-role positioning. We look at what you are already doing well. What may be keeping you too operational. Where your work needs to be connected to business impact. Which capabilities need to mature for the next level. And how to build a practical progression plan without waiting for someone else to define it for you. You will walk away with a career progression diagnosis, a role-gap map, a stronger leadership narrative, a stakeholder visibility plan, and a 60-day progression roadmap. This is not about pretending to be more senior than you are. It is about making the shift from managing projects to leading outcomes. Because the next level is rarely given to the person who keeps the cleanest tracker. It is given to the person trusted to create clarity, alignment, and movement when the work is complex and the answers are not obvious.
What you'll get from this package
A project management career progression diagnosis showing where execution habits, visibility gaps, or positioning may be limiting growth.
A next-role capability map covering stakeholder influence, business alignment, ambiguity, governance, and delivery leadership.
A stronger project leadership narrative that reframes your work around outcomes, decisions, trade-offs, and strategic value.
A stakeholder visibility and sponsorship plan to help the right people understand your readiness for a larger mandate.
A 60-day career progression roadmap with practical actions, behaviour shifts, and role-readiness milestones.
Additional details
Coaching delivered via live sessions and .
Session plan 1. Session 1: Career stage, current role diagnosis, and progression goals. 2. Session 2: Next-level capability gaps and leadership behaviour shifts. 3. Session 3: Project leadership narrative and stakeholder visibility. 4. Session 4: Role options, promotion evidence, and career leverage. 5. Session 5: 60-day progression roadmap and accountability plan. How I work with clients I work with clients by starting with clarity, not assumptions. Whether the challenge is a career transition, a leadership inflection point, a technology decision, or an organizational transformation, my first task is to understand what is really going on beneath the surface. Often, the visible issue is only a symptom. The real constraint may be unclear priorities, weak alignment, outdated operating rhythms, gaps in leadership identity, or decisions that have not yet been made with enough precision. My approach combines structured inquiry, real-world executive experience, and practical strategy. I do not believe in generic frameworks, motivational advice, or one-size-fits-all playbooks. Each engagement is shaped around the client’s context, goals, constraints, and stage of growth. Together, we diagnose the real pattern, challenge assumptions, surface blind spots, and translate insight into action. For individuals, that may mean strengthening leadership presence, reframing career value, or navigating the shift from technical expertise to strategic influence. For organizations, it may mean aligning leadership, clarifying decision rights, strengthening operating models, or turning transformation intent into executable movement. The work is both rigorous and human. There is strategic structure, but also space for reflection, identity shifts, trust-building, and the deeper leadership work required for lasting change. The goal is not just to create a plan. The goal is to help clients see clearly, decide wisely, and move forward with confidence.
- Preparation: Clients are expected to share relevant context, documents, role descriptions, profiles, business material, or questions at least 24 hours before the session where applicable. For diagnostic-led packages, the client should complete the relevant JRDN diagnostic before the first session and share the result or key observations. - Confidentiality: All coaching and advisory conversations are confidential, except where disclosure is required by law or platform policy. - Scope: Coaching and advisory recommendations are strategic and developmental in nature. They do not constitute legal, financial, therapeutic, tax, or investment advice. - No guaranteed outcomes: Career moves, promotions, job offers, funding, business growth, AI adoption, transformation outcomes, partner-tier movement, or executive buy-in cannot be guaranteed. The work creates clarity, readiness, positioning, and practical next steps. - Deliverables: Packages include live sessions, light notes, and agreed action points. Detailed written reports, implementation documents, architecture designs, offsite facilitation, or extended document reviews are outside scope unless separately agreed. - Client responsibility: The client is responsible for acting on recommendations, completing reflection work, and making final career or business decisions. - Platform terms: Leland's own cancellation, payment, refund, and platform policies apply in addition to these package terms.
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Offered by Nirmalya M.
Joined January 2026
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Transform Your Career with a Digital Leader | Ex-AWS & KPMG Director
I ran large, cross-functional transformations at AWS and KPMG, with real budgets, real politics, and real consequences when timelines slipped. The schedule was never the hard part. Leading people who didn't report to me, holding stakeholders to their commitments, and keeping a program steady under pressure, that was the actual work. I can help you grow from running tasks to leading outcomes, manage difficult stakeholders and executives, and build the credibility that carries you from project manager into program and portfolio leadership. As an ICF-ACC certified coach who has delivered at this scale, I coach both the craft and the career: the practical moves, and the confidence to make them.
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