"Susanne Madsen’s new book is a great guide for project managers looking to move from implementers to leaders. At every turn of the page, the evolving project leader will find stories, self assessments, and quizzes that will help solidify the learning and provide pathways for the application of new, stronger leadership skills to their projects. The emphasis on changing your mindset from of one of implementation to one of leadership is one that all project managers should take great effort to apply to their careers." --Dave Wakeman, Principal, Wakeman Consulting Group

"The Power of Project Leadership is a must-read for everyone in the project world who wants to up their game or be less stressed about delivery. Written with an energy and commitment borne out of personal experience, Susanne’s book is packed with frameworks and reflective leadership exercises to challenge the way you work and has many stories from practitioners to inspire. Be brave, take a risk, get a copy and change your game!" --Carole Osterweil, Director and Change Catalyst, OMQ Change Consulting

"Susanne’s book clearly demonstrates the insights and tools to become an inspirational leader as well as an intelligent manager of projects. Teams want their leaders to be inspirational and the processes they use intelligently selected. Whether you are an experienced practitioner looking to reflect and hone your skills or setting out with a goal to become an inspirational leader of projects this book provides the insight to do so. Highly recommended. All my team have a copy. I’m that confident of the effect it will have on my business." --Paul Daniels, Managing Director, Leadership and Management Ltd

"Reading the book is like having a personal coach assess, tune and hone your transition from manager into leader. Susanne’s coaching skills have created an incremental learning environment where the value of earlier exercises become even more apparent as the pages roll on. A must for postgraduate students and project professionals alike; I hope my students read it." --Dr Nicholas Lambrou, Principal Lecturer, University of Westminster

"In this great and inspiring book, Susanne has gathered the core elements and key insights to bring you the essence of project leadership. Not only will project managers find value in reading this book, but also those in a leadership role or who seek to evolve into one. Similar to her first book, it contains coaching questions that challenge you to think about yourself, assess your situation and commit to becoming the leader you wish to be. This book should be your personal development tool for this year!" --Birger Kontek, Senior Change Manager and Vice President, Barclaycard Germany

"Key#1 is ‘be authentic’ and with this book Susanne has shown true authenticity by empowering her readers with stories, insights, tools and practical activities, along with a vision of what a project leader needs to be. The Power of Project Leadership is recommended reading for all project managers." --Peter Taylor, The Lazy Project Manager

"Susanne provides a refreshing approach to project leadership. A refined mix of insight and practice gives us all the opportunity to take a look in the mirror and choose to make some changes. This isn’t a theoretical treatise, but rather a workshop manual that I wish had been available earlier on in my career. It would have saved me from a few scrapes!" --Julian Bullen, Project Director, The Clarkson Alliance

"Susanne’s book is a blueprint for moving from project management to project leadership and will, without a doubt, become a reference for those who are looking to take their leadership skills to the next level. The book is a true hands-on approach with each chapter chock-full of principles you can almost immediately cut-and-paste into your professional engagements. With tested ideas for professional development, avoiding common pitfalls, empowering your team, and engaging stakeholders, Susanne takes Project Managers by the hand and equips them with all they need to stop managing and start leading." --Cesar Abeid, PMP, founder of PM for the Masses podcast

"Susanne has produced a guide to enable the transition to project leadership that balances the right amount of theory, with relevant and insightful stories and sticky ideas from practitioners that are relevant and easy to understand. She also makes the reader reflect on one’s own behaviors, barriers, drivers and motivations in a way that is not intrusive but sometimes confronting. This work will support the growth of project leaders worldwide and can only result in the delivery of more and more successful projects and programs and leaders. I commend this work as a must read to every project manager regardless of the type of project you are working on – it will help you now and in the future." --Deborah Hein, CEO, International Centre for Complex Project Management

"This excellent book takes you on the next vital step of your project career journey from manager to leader. Susanne’s book is a well thought out and highly practical guide to how to break through the fear barrier of ‘not wanting to let go of control’ and moves you into learning how to ‘inspire rather than perspire’ – I highly recommend it." --Stephen Carver, FAPM, Cranfield School of Management

"I am delighted to see that the need for greater focus in leadership and communication has been captured in Susanne’s new book The Power of Project Leadership. This book captures the importance of entrepreneurial spirit and correctly emphasizes the ‘human aspect’ whilst addressing the psychological and physiological issues in leadership development. Congratulations Susanne, your new book helps provide the ‘keys’ for future leadership development and will make an important contribution to the global complex project management community." --Stephen Hayes MBE, Founding MD of ICCPM and MD of Complexity Solutions

"Managing projects is exciting and fun. But there comes a moment in every project manager’s career when you realize that there must be more than just bringing tasks to completion. This is the moment when you realize that you want to go from project manager to project leader, which is when you have to pick up The Power of Project Leadership. Susanne Madsen’s book is an in-depth road map that shows you exactly how to re-invent yourself and go from managing your projects at the task level to leading them through vision and empowerment." --Cornelius Fichtner, PMP, Host of The Project Management Podcast