Music teacher → Program Manager ∙ PMP ∙ PMI-ACP ∙ MBA Hi, I'm Aakash. For 8+ years I ran a music academy alongside a full-time corporate career. I thought they were two separate lives. Students, parents, enrolment, curriculum, the P&L — all mine. I thought I was running a music school. I was running projects: timelines I'd committed to, stakeholders wanting updates, scope that grew every time an exam date moved. I just didn't have the words for it yet. Once I did, I moved into program management — introducing Scrum where there wasn't any, standing up a PMO from scratch, running coaching series for PMs at two companies. Come talk to me if: • You do good work and still miss dates, and can't work out why • Everything has equal urgency and you're triaging by panic • Scope keeps growing and you don't know how to say so out loud • You've just started managing people and seniors want answers you don't have • You're weighing project vs product, or which certification to take and when. I've cleared CAPM, PMP and PMI-ACP, and I'll tell you honestly if one's wrong for you now. I write technical PM articles and reflective/motivated pieces about life on my website www.thelionamongsheep.com. I still play guitar. I still sing.