Mary Loden

How to Get and Keep Rock Star PMs

Mary Loden, Compass Management Consulting

Are you a “rock star” project manager? If not, you can be! Every penny of revenue for most architecture, engineering, and construction management consulting firms flows through the hands of a project manager. PMs are in the front lines of firm profitability and client satisfaction. But PMs often don’t have the training or support they need to become true rock star PMs. 


This workshop covers proven strategies, tools, and techniques to help project managers be effective leaders and manage projects more profitably. Some topics to be explored are:

  • Support – Are you pricing your projects properly? Do you have the data and reports you need to track project budgets and schedules?
  • Engagement – Are you happy to be a project manager? What can you do to build a sense of community with other PMs at your firm?
  • Accountability – Do you know what is expected of you as a project manager? Are your firm’s systems aligned to incentivize the right kinds of behaviors?
  • Pipeline – Are your junior staff getting ready to be PMs? Are you giving them the mentoring they need today to be future rock star PMs?


This interactive workshop will explore these topics through discussion, exercises, polls, and examples. Whether your firm has 10, 100, or 1,000 project managers, you will get practical, scalable tips that you can take back to work and use the very next day.

About Mary

Mary Loden, PE, PMP, MBA is Principal Consultant of Compass Management Consulting. With over 30 years of experience in the architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting space, Loden is an effective leader, trainer, consultant, and project manager. She has trained and supported project managers in firms of all sizes and teaches project management at Wentworth Institute of Technology School of Management, in Boston, MA. She is passionate about developing simple and effective systems, tools, training programs, and processes for project managers to reach their full PM rock star potential!

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