Transformational Project Leadership Squadron

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Project leadership, reimagined

Escape admin mode.
Become the strategic leader your business cannot ignore.

TPL Squad helps project managers, PM leaders, and emerging executives build visibility, influence, and real delivery leadership. Less noise. More momentum.

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People over process

Clarity over chaos

Momentum over perfection

The TPL Squad Promise

You will leave with clearer leadership, not more templates.

Strategic Communication Leadership

Translate between execs, stakeholders, and teams so decisions move faster.

Delivery Mastery

Run the right meetings, make tradeoffs visible, and lead outcomes.

Career Leverage

Position your work so promotions, trust, and opportunity follow you.

Motto

Master projects. Master your career. Master yourself.

Mission

We build project leaders that earn trust and drive outcomes

Project management is not a paperwork job. It is leadership under pressure.

Lead with confidence

Build presence, decision-making cadence, and stakeholder trust.

Deliver with impact

Shift from reporting status to communicating implications and outcomes.

Adapt with ease

Choose the right approach for the context, not the loudest framework.

What we believe

Leadership is earned through reps and results.

People are more important than processes.

Clarity creates momentum.

No fluff. No BS. Only what works.

What changes for you

Your updates become decisions, not documents.

Your meetings create alignment, not fatigue.

Your leadership becomes visible across the org.

You stop being managed and start leading.

For Who

Built for quiet confidence and high standards

If you are accomplished, composed, and tired of being treated like a task tracker, you are in the right place.

Project managers

You lead delivery but feel stuck doing admin work and chasing updates.

PM leaders

You need to raise the standard for how PMs operate and communicate.

Emerging executives

You want presence, influence, and strategic visibility without playing politics.

If this sounds familiar

Your calendar is full, but outcomes do not move.
You are accountable, but you do not have authority.
Stakeholders want answers, not context.
You can feel the ceiling, but cannot name the next move.

Then we will help you

Run strategic comms that create decisions.
Lead tradeoffs without waiting for permission.
Build a leadership operating rhythm that scales.
Position your impact so it is impossible to miss.

Offers

Choose the lane that fits your mission

Coaching for the individual. Advising for the organization. Training for the team.

1:1 Executive Coaching

Best for:

PMs and leaders ready to upgrade presence, influence, and career leverage.

You get:

Leadership operating system you can repeat
Strategic communication playbook
Role positioning and promotion strategy

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Fractional Project Leadership

Best for:

Startups and teams that need delivery leadership now, without a full-time hire.

You get:

Cadence, planning, and stakeholder rhythm
Risk and decision visibility
Team alignment and execution support

Explore fractional support

Workshops and Team Training

Best for:

PMOs and product or engineering groups that want a stronger delivery culture.

Topics include:

Strategic stakeholder communication
Meetings that move outcomes
Hybrid ways of working that fit reality

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What we train

One universal skill changes everything: strategic communication leadership. Translation, emotional intelligence, and business connection.

Translate complexity into decisions

Create psychological safety through presence

Connect work to outcomes stakeholders care about

How We Work

A simple operating loop that creates momentum

No long programs. No fluff. We build what works and iterate.

Kickoff01

Define the mission, constraints, and what success actually means.

Assess02

Find the real blockers: authority, clarity, comms, cadence, or culture.

Design03

Build a repeatable system: meetings, messaging, and decision flow.

Reps04

Practice in real situations until it becomes your default behavior.

What you can expect

Direct feedback and clear next steps

Tools that fit your reality, not ours

Proof through action, not certificates

What we will not do

Sell you a framework as a personality

Build a life of meetings to manage meetings

Overcomplicate your role for job security

Proof

Real-world experience, not theory

Built from enterprise delivery, military leadership, and entrepreneurship.

Leadership under pressure

Decades of leading teams where clarity and calm matter.

Enterprise delivery

Large-scale IT programs with stakeholders who demand outcomes.

Founder mindset

Building products and systems the hard way. Ship, learn, iterate.

About

Built by Craig A. Brown

Executive coach for project managers and delivery leaders ready to level up.

The short version

I spent years watching projects fail despite perfect processes. The lesson was clear: people, clarity, and leadership move outcomes.

TPL Squad is where I coach high-potential project leaders to operate with strategic presence. Not louder. Not busier. Just more effective.

Non-negotiables

Integrity

Clarity

Earned leadership

Discipline

No fluff

The manifesto

Project leaders are not task trackers.

If you are accountable, you deserve authority and clarity. If your org only wants admin, you can still train leadership. That is how you outgrow the ceiling.

We build composure, communication, and decision-making. We put the goal first, then choose the process.

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FAQ

Questions you might be asking

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Next Step

If you are ready to lead differently, let’s talk

Tell me your role, your current challenge, and what you want to be known for.

Book a call

If you are ready to lead differently, let’s talk. Pick a time that works and tell me what you are working on.

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Good fit if

You want strategic visibility

You want authority through trust

You are ready to get the reps in

Brownie Point

You do not need permission to lead. You need a plan and the next rep.