Your project has a hidden stakeholder, and it’s packed in something you carry with you everyday. An invisible briefcase packed with beliefs, cultural values and inherited stories that shape how we show up to our project teams. It decides whose pushback sounds “assertive”, who speaks up and who goes quiet, and whose name gets said right on day one.

No PM framework will show it to you, but it’s shaping every deliverable. In this Project Bite, Andrea McCoy shows you how to open that briefcase and why doing so could be the most important project skill you haven’t learned yet. Because the most important shift is not learning about how someone else shows up to our project team. It is being willing — maybe for the first time — to look honestly at how we do.