In the second episode of Project Design: The Good, The Bad and The Wild, host Danielle Wilkins sits down with Matt Kessler-Cleary to talk about project design from his unique perspective as his team's 'fixer of broken things'. With 10+ years of experience as a wearer of many hats AND jack of all trades for the strategy team of one of the largest divisions in a busy global NGO, Matt brings both an implementer and a planner perspective to the Project Design podcast.

Join us for part 1 where we dive into a specific case study of a project that skipped parts of the design phase and what can go wrong. Matt walks us through his experience of dealing with the fallout of a design process that assumed people would simply be on board- and skipped over internal stakeholder engagement. He shares how he had to retrofit stakeholder engagement into an already-moving project and his take aways from the experience.

Be sure to stay tuned for Part 2 where we shift from problems to solutions, and we get into what Matt has learned about how to functionally engage stakeholders, why projects need flexibility rather than rigid plans, and how keeping people- not just process- at the center of design is a non-negotiable for project success.

Part 2 drops on Tuesday Nov. 4th! Be sure to follow to get a notification.