Season 4, Episode 9: Project Mana...
Season 4, Episode 9: Project Manager Stories – Narrative Tools for Leading with Clarity and Purpose with Phillip Henry
The Starfish Storytellers by Liana Henry
S4 · E9
Sep 15, 2025
47:14
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Storytelling is becoming an essential leadership skill for today’s project managers. Far beyond Gantt charts and spreadsheets, effective project management hinges on the ability to communicate vision, inspire teams, and navigate change with empathy and clarity.

In this episode, host Liana Henry sits down with her husband and business partner, Phillip Henry, COO of The Black Dog Group and a certified Project Management Professional, to explore how storytelling can transform the way project managers lead.

From guiding multi-million-dollar projects to mentoring enterprise teams, Phillip has seen firsthand that success in project management isn’t just about Gantt charts and deadlines. It’s about the human element.

Phillip unpacks how narrative can communicate vision with clarity, inspire teams to wo ... 

Keywords
project management
Leadership Storytelling
communication
stakeholder engagement
lessons learned
Change Management