Palm’s Up Leadership with Rich Plumery
From Tim Stating the Obvious by statingtheobvious
May 1, 2026 · 36 min · Season 7 · Episode 25
About this episode
Rich Plumery discusses his journey to leadership and the principles of servant leadership.
In this conversation, Palm’s Up Leadership with Rich Plumery, Rich Plumery shares his journey from being a lost kid to becoming a successful leader. He discusses the importance of mentorship, the principles of servant leadership, and how to engage teams effectively. Rich emphasizes the need for humility in leadership and the significance of transferring wisdom to future leaders. He also highlights the role of parents in fostering servant leadership in their children, advocating for a collaborative and supportive approach in both professional and personal settings. Rich Plumery bio: As the Senior Vice President of Project Delivery for AECOM, the world’s largest andmost admired architecture, engineering, and design firm, Rich leads project delivery forAECOM’s most significant and critical business—their Americas business with over50,00 projects delivered per year. Rich Plumery is now the author of Palms Up Leadership: Developing Our FutureLeaders, which discusses how his unique experiences have shaped his new approachto servant leadership. His Enable, Engage, and Embrace approach offers methods foraddressing many of the current challenges in today’s workplace, including dealing…
People in this episode
Host: Tim
Guest: Rich Plumery
Topics covered
- leadership
- mentorship
- servant leadership
- team engagement
- humility
- collaboration
Keywords
- leadership
- mentorship
- servant leadership
- team engagement
- humility
- collaboration
- wisdom
- AI technologies
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: AECOM
Books & works: Palms Up Leadership: Developing Our Future Leaders
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