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Powering ProjeX: From Vision to Victory

S2 E6 The Future of Project Management Training with Kestrel Stone

April 20, 2026 • DK • Season 2 • Episode 6

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What if the biggest risk to your next project is not the budget, not the technology, and not even the stakeholders? What if it is the skills gap you have been quietly tolerating for years?

In this episode of Powering ProjeX, DK sits down with Kestrel Stone, founder and CEO of Elemental Projects, to confront a truth the industry keeps sidestepping: organisations are racing to deliver more projects than ever before, while investing less and less in the people who actually deliver them. The saw is getting blunter with every passing financial year, and the trees are not getting smaller.

From the 70-20-10 learning model to the four lenses of project complexity, and from skill atrophy in the age of AI to the art of building a culture where people can actually make mistakes and learn, this conversation is a masterclass in what separates resilient delivery organisations from the ones perpetually in crisis mode.

👤 Guest Bio

Kestrel Stone is the founder and CEO of Elemental Projects, a leading Australian provider of project management training and consulting established in 2012. She holds a Master's in Project Management and is a Fellow of the International Project Management Association of Australia. Kestrel serves as a board member of the Global Alliance for Project Professions and is a passionate advocate for the human side of project success. Through Elemental Projects, she delivers accredited programmes including the Diploma of Project Management and bespoke organisational capability solutions, empowering individuals and teams to do good work done well, with confidence and impact.

💬 Key Quote

"AI is great when there's a right answer. But the role of the project manager is to facilitate the conversation between all of those people, reconcile all of those different opinions, and get us in the same boat so we're all heading

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