Build Your Success

Establishing a foundation for your personal and professional development. This community and our guests will empower and equip you to be a better leader, enabling you to BUILD a brighter, better future for you and your team

Build Your Success is a education podcast hosted by Brian Brogen, with 263 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Brian Brogen hosts Build Your Success, a education show with 263 episodes published.

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  Insights from Project Management Pioneer: Lee Lambert

  Aug 18, 202624 min

  Host Brian welcomes return guest Lee Lambert, founding member of the PMP, to discuss the 2026 PMP exam changes and the credential’s ongoing value. Brian outlines updated exam weightings—People dropping from 42% to 33%, Process from 50% to 41%, and Business Environment increasing from 8% to 26% and notes the shift toward more scenario-based questions. Lee contrasts the original 1984 all-day, volunteer-builtexam with today’s format, argues scenario questions better test thinking versus memorization, and shares his concern on how boot camps produce credentialedcandidates without real capability, which can erode PMP credibility. They discuss the challenge of “right vs. better” answers,experience requirements (Lee regrets setting the minimum at three years), PMOs, project manager cost and salary, and the myth that project managers are good communicators, emphasizing communication and leadership as primary drivers of project success. Guest Social: ⁠Lee R. Lambert | LinkedIn⁠ Guest Website: ⁠Home of Project Management | Project Management Institute⁠ Host Email:brianb@buildcs.net Host LinkedIn: ⁠Brian Brogen, PMP | LinkedIn⁠ Host Website: ⁠BuildConsulting Services - Mulberry, FL - Brian Brogen⁠ About the host: Do you want true engagement at your event?Expect Brian Brogen to deliver a keynote that sparks dialogue, inspires growth, and leaves your audience thinking long after the event ends. Drawing on his extensive experience as a general contractor and project manager in the construction, power, and mining industries, Brian brings the real-world credibility and relatable rapport your audience craves.

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  The Origins and Evolution of the PMP: A Conversation with Lee Lambert

  Aug 11, 202628 min

  On the Build Your Success podcast, host Brian Brogen interviews Lee Lambert, a founder of the PMP, about his 60-year career and the evolution of project management. Lambert shares how he began at General Electric as a lead earned value trainer, later joined Battelle in Columbus to help form a project management division, and spent 1981–1984 helping develop and launch the PMP in 1984. Lee discusses how PMI and the PMP shifted from construction roots toward IT, agile, and now AI, and explains why hybrid approaches are common becauseagile cannot fit every project. Lambert emphasizes leadership over tools andtechniques, highlights the value of mentorship, and recounts leading a 205-person team to complete a critical project in 20 months that helped drivean $11B acquisition. Guest Social: Lee R. Lambert | LinkedIn Guest Website: Home of Project Management | Project Management Institute Host Email: brianb@buildcs.net Host LinkedIn: Brian Brogen, PMP | LinkedIn Host Website: BuildConsulting Services - Mulberry, FL - Brian Brogen About the host: Do you want true engagement at your event?Expect Brian Brogen to deliver a keynote that sparks dialogue, inspires growth, and leaves your audience thinking long after the event ends. Drawing on his extensive experience as a general contractor and project manager in the construction, power, and mining industries, Brian brings the real-world credibility and relatable rapport your audience craves.

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  Developing Trust and Building the Next Generation with Lauren Weinbaum

  Jul 14, 202627 min

  Host Brian welcomes Lauren Weinbaum, President and CEO ofWMG Construction Management, who shares her background growing up on a farm in Virginia, Illinois, and founding her company in 2013 after an owner client encouraged her to start her own firm. Lauren defines leadership as transparency and activelydeveloping successors and explains her focus on recruiting the next generation, especially women, into construction due to workforce shortages and aging infrastructure needs. She discusses why trust matters in an era of AI and misinformation, emphasizing doing what you say you’ll do and using pastbehavior as a predictor. Lauren highlights a key project management lesson, never betoo busy to call people back, addresses communication across four workplace generations, and describes hybrid strategies, career flexibility, and HR-led career development check-ins to build trust and retention. She advises early-career professionals to work hard, avoid fixating on titles, and gainexperience over time. Guest Social: Lauren Weinbaum |LinkedIn Guest Website: WMGConstruction - Los Angeles, CA Host Email: brianb@buildcs.net Host LinkedIn: Brian Brogen, PMP 🧱| LinkedIn Host Website: BuildConsulting Services - Mulberry, FL - Brian Brogen About the host: Do you want true engagement at your event?Expect Brian Brogen to deliver a keynote that sparks dialogue, inspires growth, and leaves your audience thinking long after the event ends. Drawing on his extensive experience as a general contractorand project manager in the construction, power, and mining industries, Brian brings the real-world credibility and relatable rapport your audience craves.

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  Safety and Success: Building a Culture of Accountability with Robbie Sawyer

  Jul 7, 202624 min

  On the Build Your Success podcast, host Brian welcomesRobbie “C.R.” Sawyer, Director of Safety for Florida at HB Next, who travels jobsite to jobsite coaching builders, GCs, and trade partners on OSHA 1926 and practical safety to keep businesses healthy and compliant. Robbie shares how his grandfather, a fire chief, modeled servant leadership by working alongside rookies and building trust, then explains that a strong safety culture requirestop-level buy-in and zero compromise, while employees can influence leadership through education and initiative. He describes what makes a good safety inspector, being able to stop imminent danger but primarily approaching sites asa coach who educates without belittling. The conversation also covers Florida workforce shortages, apprenticeship programs through NEFBA, HB Next trainingresources, and advanced first aid training like stop-the-bleed and tourniquet use. Guest Social: Robbie Sawyer, CHST | LinkedIn Guest Website: Construction Compliance as a Service I HB NEXT Host Email: brianb@buildcs.net Host LinkedIn: Brian Brogen, PMP 🧱| LinkedIn Host Website: BuildConsulting Services - Mulberry, FL - Brian Brogen About the host: Do you want true engagement at your event?Expect Brian Brogen to deliver a keynote that sparks dialogue, inspires growth, and leaves your audience thinking long after the event ends. Drawing on his extensive experience as a general contractorand project manager in the construction, power, and mining industries, Brian brings the real-world credibility and relatable rapport your audience craves.

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  From Apprentice to Tower Lead: Aaron Waechter on Leadership, Trade Opportunities and Vineyard Wind

  Jun 23, 202626 min

  In this Build Your Success podcast episode, Aaron Waechter, a Local Union 1121 millwright and tower lead on the Vineyard Wind offshore project, shares his path from studying engineering to completing a four-year apprenticeship and building a career in power generation. Aaron describes union training, paid hands-on learning,specialized courses in Las Vegas, and how opportunities led to nuclear work and travel, including a job in Romania and additional certifications. He explains his view of leadership as exemplifying standards, caring about crew members,and building trust, and highlights the importance of relationships and attitude alongside credentials. Aaron details the intensive safety training, helicoptertravel, harsh offshore conditions, complex U.S. logistics requiring open-water transfers, prototype equipment, multi-trade and multicultural teamwork, shift rotations, and the need for resilience, adaptability, and new procedures tocomplete first-of-its-kind work safely. Host Email: brianb@buildcs.net Host LinkedIn: Brian Brogen, PMP 🧱| LinkedIn Host Website: BuildConsulting Services - Mulberry, FL - Brian Brogen About the host: Do you want true engagement at your event?Expect Brian Brogen to deliver a keynote that sparks dialogue, inspires growth, and leaves your audience thinking long after the event ends. Drawing on his extensive experience as a general contractorand project manager in the construction, power, and mining industries, Brian brings the real-world credibility and relatable rapport your audience craves.

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