Confidential briefing
Confidence: High
Lena
Prepared for your Senior Project Manager Discovery
What stands out
Almost everything Lena chooses to talk about circles back to ownership. Specifically: thrives when trusted with meaningful ownership.
That reads directly onto your side, where decision making happens close to delivery teams.
Recommended next step
Meet Lena
Suggested first conversation:
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
You've not met before.
What we've learned
Ownership
Thrives when trusted with meaningful ownership — and the examples behind it were about decisions, not responsibilities.
Heard across separate conversations months apart, described the same way each time.
Leadership
Lena keeps returning to this without being asked: consistently prefers supportive leadership over hierarchical management.
Raised unprompted more than once, with different examples behind it.
Mission
Repeatedly prioritises meaningful financial services impact. It has shaped what Lena has moved towards, not just what they say.
Revisited deliberately, and Lena did not soften it.
Why we're confident
We expected leadership to be the deciding factor for Lena. Repeated conversations pointed at ownership instead, and it has held every time since.
- Ownership, leadership and mission each read the same way from Lena's side and from yours, separately.
Their expectations sit at £94,000. No prior relationship — the reasoning carries this on its own.
Worth discussing first
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
- How decisions get made, and where they get written down.
- What would make the first year successful here.
Context
Where they are today
Lena is currently a Senior Project Manager, based in Leeds, United Kingdom. Their employer is theirs to share once you've both agreed to talk.
Where they've operated
Mostly financial services, fmcg and technology.
Lena has moved from Project Manager to Senior Project Manager over 19 years — widening responsibility rather than lateral moves. Not looking, but would take the right conversation. Status: not yet connected.