This study investigated success factors of transformational projects managed by Indonesian public leadership education and training participants. Previous reports on project success factors mostly were of project management natures and paid very little attention to the process of educating and training of prospective public project managers. All of participants were alumni of public leadership programs in Indonesia, who involved voluntarily in the current qualitative study. An open-ended questionnaire was set up for one on one interviews in gathering data, and the NVivo 10 was used both in managing and analyzing them. The iterative inductions of this research revealed that project's innovation, team performances, risk management, resources controlling, and schedule monitoring were the top five success factors in managing public transformational projects in education and training settings.