Transitioning Between Industries: A Project Manager's Journey with Walt Sparling

About this episode

Walt Sparling shares his unique journey into project management and discusses future goals with a former guest.

Send us Fan Mail Ever wonder how someone becomes a successful project manager? Walt Sparling's remarkable journey from an accidental drafting student to a cross-industry PM expert reveals the unexpected path many professionals take into this dynamic field. This is a unique episode where Walt, the host of the PM-Mastery podcast, let a former guest and friend interview him. During this interview, we discussed future goals of meeting each other in person, but due to the delayed posting of this e...

People in this episode

Host: Walt Sparling

Guest: former guest

Topics covered

• project management
• career transition
• personal journey
• professional development
• interview

Keywords

• project manager
• career path
• cross-industry
• success
• interview

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