S5E114: The Spiritual Project Manager with Ines Lopes

In this week’s pod, we welcomed Ines Lopes to discuss The Spiritual Project Manager. Ines fell in love with Project Management at University. So much so that after her Engineering degree she completed an MSc in Strategic Project Management. She spent 9 years working at Transport for London leading complex high-profile highways and sustainability projects such as the Ultra Low Emission Zone to improve air quality in London and the programme to help Transport for London (TfL) become zero carbon by 2030. During that time she also went through an awakening of sorts, embarking on a spiritual holistic journey to be able to heal her body. As a result, she felt in the middle of two worlds. On one side a structured work-life is guided by analysis and organisational skills. On the other side, an intuitive personal life looks into the energy behind everything to continue with her personal growth. In 2020 she left TfL to focus on her spiritual journey. But turns out you can't take the project manager out of her! She felt the pull to join a couple of initiatives as a project manager and decided to do things her way. She combined the two worlds she had been living in. Focusing on deadlines and outputs but also helping the teams involved to let go of limiting beliefs and anything else that was not serving them. And this is how Spiritual Project Management was born. The main topics we discussed on the podcast were as follows:·

• Spiritual Project Management is the concept that a project can deliver growth for a business as well as personal growth for its contributors
• The concept does not focus on religion, just personal growth within the project space
• It aims to create a “safe space” for people to be themselves within a project environment
• The covid pandemic has helped to dispel the myth of presenteeism
• “I never knew how strong I was until I had to forgive someone who wasn’t sorry”
• Focus on what you have and how you will get what you want. Create lists and schedules to identify how you will  achieve your goals
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