Why well-funded projects quietly fail long before leadership notices

Projects rarely fail because teams don’t work hard-they fail because leaders stop seeing early warning signals once growth or funding creates a false sense of safety. By the time problems reach the executive level, scope creep, delayed decisions, and unchallenged assumptions have already compounded into missed launches and wasted capital. Richard brings a pattern-recognition lens shaped by turnarounds where the real damage happened months before anyone called it a crisis.

About Richard Broo

Richard Broo, podcast guest

Project Management Turnaround Specialist and Founder of True North PMP Consulting

40+ years Successful global leadership experience$22.2M Sale achieved after stabilizing a failing medical packaging businessPMP Certified Project Management ProfessionalCorporate & collegiate Project management educator

Richard Broo has spent more than four decades inside complex organizations watching projects quietly drift off course, often long before leadership realizes anything is wrong. His career work spans Fortune 500 companies, mid-market firms, and private-equity-backed businesses, where he is repeatedly brought in to resolve project related issues when internal project teams are at a loss and outcomes are on the line.

Richard has expertise in product management, project management, new product development & commercialization, and operations. He has served clients in the plastics, flexible/rigid packaging, automotive/heavy truck, consumer goods, electrical/electronic, building & construction raw materials, industrial manufacturing, and medical equipment industries. Based upon his career accomplishments, he became an expert to resolve projects experiencing budget overruns, scheduling delays, scope creep, stakeholder issues, poor team dynamics, and projects failing to deliver intended results. He has guided organizations through high-risk inflection points, including stabilizing a failing medical packaging business, leading it through a controlled bankruptcy to a successful $22.2M sale.

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