Shane co-founded and was COO of Acro Media in 1998, a web development company that earned a Mid-Sized Company of the Year award from the local Chamber of Commerce in 2007. Later, with Disney Interactive, he oversaw studio operations, where he led teams to overcome the challenges of multi-studio software development through blending traditional project management and Agile.

He helped found Minga in 2016, serving as VP of Product. Minga is now a successful social platform across many Canadian schools. More recently, Shane worked as the Director of Operations at Komixstream, a startup bringing interactive comic books to the mobile platform.

In early 2020, Shane joined Virtira to challenge and scale its operational capabilities, strengthen team building and implement more robust Lean/Agile methodologies. As COO, he transformed all solution and practice areas, Operations, HR, IT, and the PMO. More recently, Shane’s vast experience in project management, entrepreneurship, and team leadership has made him an in-demand speaker on productivity and engagement.

Shane lives in beautiful Kelowna, British Columbia with his wife, two daughters, and two cats: Pancake and Bagel.
His first book with Forbes Books, The Power of Remote, is co-authored with Cynthia Watson.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-spraggs/Web: https://virtira.caLink to his book The Power of Remote:

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This wee we have Stephen Repton on the show.

Stephen is a skilled and committed business transformation professional who specialises in identifying opportunities for digital change within an organisation.

A proven track record in planning, shaping and driving the delivery of digital agendas for corporate technology across an organisation, identifying efficiencies and improvements that introduce more agile, collaborative and secure ways of working and improved multi-channel digital services for customers. Excellent leadership skills that are supported by a broad all-round technical awareness.
With a wealth of experience working within both public and private sectors of industry. For the last 12 years he has worked for several large, not for profit housing providers in senior positions and has been responsible for developing IT and digital strategies and aligning them with corporate business objectives, as well as leading and delivering strategic transformation projects and programmes.
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Flowlio provides the tools which redefine the way that projects are established, managed and delivered for enterprise organisations worldwide.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-repton-6a31824

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As Senior Advisor to the CEO, Dave focuses on key projects important to PMI’s mission and community. One of which we focus on in this interview, the new PMI report: Maximizing Project Success: Elevating the impact of the Project Profession. Elevating the impact on our world, offers a modern, shared definition of project success that builds on long-standing views of what defines project success—and the role that project professionals can have in delivering it.
As Chief Strategy & Growth Officer for PMI, Dave collaboratively defined and drove the execution of the Institute's strategy to create exponential growth in relevance and impact. Working globally, across the organization to define, test, and deliver "new products that matter," which will deliver dramatic increases in value to our customers.
Prior to PMI, Dave was co-founder and former CEO of ProjectManagement.com (aka gantthead.com), a well-known and profitable on-line publication since early 2000. ProjectManagement.com is the world's largest dedicated community of IT Project Managers. For more than a decade, we grew profitably through partnerships, acquisitions, and natural extensions of our brand. In January 2014, we joined the Project Management Institute (PMI) family, helping serve the needs of more than 6.7M Project Managers worldwide.

Access the report we talk about in the show : Maximizing Project Success: Elevating the impact of the Project Profession: https://www.pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/project-success

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davegarrett/

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