One, Two, Three…Wait, what?

123 Top Influencers in the Project

Management Industry in 2016

Introduction

What exactly is project management? Well, we can always ask aunt Wikipedia and learn that

it is ―the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of

a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria‖. However, while these

activities are and will probably always be the same when it comes to project

management, the circumstances and environment are constantly changing. Not only

thanks to the development of technology, the appearance of the network but also thanks to

the people – those, who have shown the way for the others, the brave pioneers, who

designed their own systems, introduced brilliant ideas into their teams, those who shaped the

project management into its current form.

Today we have the honor to present a list of one hundred and twenty-three people, who in

our opinion, made a significant influence on the project management that we know now.

Please bear in mind that this is only a list, not a competition. There is no first place, no

podium and the order is random. Ready? So off we go!

1. Brad Egeland

An expert in PM with 20 years of experience and plenty of

accomplishments. Brad runs his website, where you can learn a little bit

more about him and A LOT about project management.

2. Thomas Kennedy

A certified project manager, who now shares his experience with others,

teaching them how to be better at their job. Thomas is writing a blog,

where you can find many valuable articles about project management.

3. Bill Mabry

With almost 30 years of experience gathered while working in many

different companies (and for the past couple of years on a director

position), Bill is an undeniable expert in project management. Check out

his LinkedIn profile and see for yourself!

4. Andy Jordan

The author of Risk Management for Project Driven Organizations,

Andy runsRoffensian Consulting providing program and project

management. He also teaches project management.

5. Ivo Michalick

Coach, speaker, author, teacher and consultant on project managing.

Ivo runs his blog. However, if you are not familiar with Portuguese, there

is more in English on his Twitter.

6. Robert Sutton

Professor of Management Science and researcher in the field of

Evidence-based management. Robert is also a best-selling author and

speaker. Learn more about this extraordinary individual and his brilliant

ideas on his blog.

7. Steve McConell

Steve is CEO and Chief Software Engineer at Construx Software, as well as

an author and keynote speaker with decades of experience as a consultant

to a broad range of industries. He runs his blogand a company.

8. Ryan Endres

Ryan is a project management professional with more than 18 years of

experience in the healthcare /pharmaceutical and biotech industries. He

is a skilled writer and presenter in the project management field. You

can visit his blog to learn more about him.

9. Sherri Smith

Sherri is a certified project management professional, coach and

consultant at CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants

Inc. She has virtual team, remote team, and global resource team

experience. You can visit her Twitter, where she shares knowledge in

the field of project management and more.

10. Lynda Bourne

CEO and founder of Stakeholder Management, training and consulting in

the Stakeholder Circle, author of books and papers on stakeholder

management.

11. Carol Bell

A senior project manager Royal Halloway, University of London. Carol is

an award-winning specialist in project delivery for the property sector

with a speciality in the fields like project turnaround/recovery, risk

management & value management.

12. Terri Bauman

Entrepreneur and business owner. Terri specializes in social media and

internet marketing and teaches how to make money through social

media.

13. Michael Kaplan

Michael helps organizations apply project management to improve

efficiency and business performance. He directs and facilitates

collaboration among diverse teams of clients and sponsors, software

developers, and network and data center engineers.

14. Carlos Pampliega

Keynote listener, architect and project manager professional, running

his website.

15. Lindsay Scott

Lindsay is the Director of Project Management Recruitment business –

Arras People and co-editor of ―Handbook of People in Project

Management‖.

16. Pawel Brodzinski

Pawel is a manager, coach, blogger, public speaker with years of

experience in team leading. On his blog, he shares ideas on methods to

run software projects effectively.

17. Falk Schmidt

Project manager & PM Coach. A leader in business innovations,

directing business events and change management with more than 18

years of professional experience at the interface of innovation and

realization projects. Falk runs his website.

18. Bart Vermijlen

Bart is an Executive Digital Producer at Duval Guillaume. The author of

The Agile Agency: ―How Lean and Agile Will Transform Your Creative

Agency‖. He writes a blog on project management.

19. Johanna Rothman

Founder of Rothman Consulting Group. A management consultant for

software managers and leaders, author of many books. An authority in

the field of agile methodology, Johanna teaches how to achieve better

results at work.

20. Hala Saleh

Hala is an experienced coach and a technologist who offers help in

transforming organizations to escalate their business results. She is a

founder and president of 27Sprints.

21. Elizabeth Harrin

Elizabeth is an author of social media for project managers and

customer-centric project management. Also a business writer and

successful blogger. She focuses on presenting the female perspective

of the project management world.

22. Anne Gabrillagues

Agile Coach and organizer of the ScrumDay event in France.

23. Daniel Echeverria

Specialist in Strategic Management and Project Management. Daniel

runs a website (but please bear in mind that it is in Spanish!:)

24. Jon Terry

Strategic thinker with an excellent knowledge of business tools,

technologies and scenarios, co-founder of Leankit. He helps its

customers to increase effectiveness, he also actively seeks to raise

awareness of the benefits of Kanban and visual project

management.

25. Bert Heymans

Senior project manager and business analyst, Bert runs

a journeymanpm.com, where he shares his experience and helps

people to become better project managers.

26. Joelle A Godfrey

Joelle is the project management with more than 15 years of experience

in multiple domains. On her blog, you can learn some tips and trick on

how to implement project management to address business problems.

27. Muzzamil Hussain

A software engineer, project manager and an author. Last year he

published his first book. He also writes a blog. Muzzamil is a specialist

in providing leading edge IT solutions to companies worldwide.

28. Martin Webster

An engineer and IT professional with years of experience as a team

member and leader. Martin runs a blog, where he publishes tens of

articles on project management, business, and leadership. He teaches

people how to better communicate to achieve greater results.

29. Ron Rosenhead

Project management consultant & speaker. Co-author of Strategies for

Project Sponsorship –http://www.projectagency.co.uk. For more than 15

years he has been involved in project management, working as a

coach, trainer, speaker and more. He also runs a blog, where he shares

his knowledge with others.

30. Derek Huether

Start-Up founder, project manager, and Federal Agency PMO Advisor.

Certified by both the Project Management Institute and Scrum Alliance.

Derek provides coaching, strategic enterprise transformation consulting,

and project and portfolio management services. He shares his

experience on a blog.

31. Donnie MacNicol

Director and founder of TeamAnimation. He specializes in developing

an organization‘s project leadership capability. His team offers

expertise, support and training for any business.

32. Deanne Earle

A consultant and project fixer with over 20 years of IT project

experience. Founder of Unlike Before Ltd. Her company helps clients

accept the changes in their business and keep a positive approach

toward any difficulty.

33. Mario Henrique Trentim

Mario is an experienced PMO Manager with more than 15 years of

experience. He published five project management books in three

different languages. As a professor of project management, strategy

and innovation, he teaches undergrad and MBA students.

34. Helen Rittersporn

Project Manager on assignment at Fortune 500 company. Helen

holds PMI’s Project Management Professional (PMP) ® certification

credential through theProject Management Institute (PMI). Currently,

she is working on her blog.

35. Lew Sauder

Lew has over twenty years of experience in top consulting firms. He is a

coach and a mentor on the field of project management. You can find

some very reliable information on this topic on his blog.

36. Ricardo Viana Vargas

Project management expert, director, author of fourteen books about project

management. He is the first Latin American to be elected Chairman of the

Board for the Project Management Institute. With the 20+ years of experience

and portfolio with more than 80 major projects worth over 20 billion dollars, he

is a big shot. More about him at his website.

37. Peter Taylor

Speaker and author writing about project management. He is the author

of the two best-selling books on Productive Laziness – ―The Lazy

Winner‖ and ―The Lazy Project Manager‖. His mission is to teach people

to work more efficient, not harder.

38. Cornelius Fichtner

Project Manager, PMP trainer, host of The PM Podcast, public speaker.

He has led projects for a management consulting company, a national

retailer, an internet startup company, and for one of the oldest financial

service providers in the USA. Since 2006 he has been coaching project

managers to prepare them for their PMP exam.

39. Jose Barato

He has more than 20 years of experience in Project Management and

IT Consulting. CEO at PMPeople. He runs the blog ―The Habits of an

Effective Project Manager‖ which has more than 15000 visits per month.

He is also the author of 4 books on project management.

40. Tony Adams

Tony is a man of many talents – leadership project consultant, speaker,

blogger and also an actor. He is passionate about social project

leadership.

41. Henrik Mårtensson

Business strategy expert, process expert, project manager, writer and

photographer. Passionate about agile and strategic navigation. Henrik is

a business advisor, helping people to develop business strategies and

improve processes. He also leads projects. He writes a blog on project

management and leadership.

42. Jim Highsmith

An executive consultant with ThoughtWorks Inc., having spent 30-plus

years‘ as an IT manager, product manager, project manager,

consultant, and software developer he is one of the most experienced

people on this list. And he shares his experience through a blog.

43. Erika Flora

Erica is experienced in process improvement, technology

implementation, and coaching. She is a skilled writer, blogger, and

presenter on a variety of technical and business topics. In 2006, she

started BEYOND20, a consulting and training firm built on expertise in

IT Service Management, Cloud Services, and Project Management.

44. Vincent Birlouez

Project and program manager. Working as a principal consultant at Wei

Square, project management consultancy in London. Vincent helps

companies deliver consumer the best products and services. In the free

time, he writes on his blog.

45. Victor Alonso Lion

Business consultant and internationalization specialist. Victor is a man

of many talents. His experience covers localization engineering,

international project management, account management, localization

training, and globalization consultancy. His passion is a game industry.

46. Rick A. Morris

Rick is an accomplished project manager, public speaker, and author.

Also a consultant, mentor, and evangelist for project management. He

wrote three inspiring books about project management. Rick is the

owner of R2 Consulting.

47. Mike Clayton

Mike is an author and speaker specializing in project and change

management, risk, communication and influence, and leadership. He is

an author of 13 business books. Find more about Mike on hiswebsite.

48. Dino Butorac

Dino is a project management mentor and professional –

management consultant and business leader with broad

international experience in project management, consulting and IT.

He shares his experience and knowledge on his website.

49. Americo Pinto

Americo Pinto is a Professor, an author, project management

specialist and researcher consultant with a strong experience in

large projects in Brazil and Europe. He has more than 20 years of

experience in portfolio and project management.

50. Nicola Caswell-Thorp

Nicola has a background in project management, Authorspecializing in

project consultation and sharing information. She is an owner of PPM

professional CV writing service The CV Righter.

51. Rajeev Ahooja

Mr. Rajeev has a gigantic experience on the field of project

management. He is a Professor teaching project management, global

business environments, risk and issue management, people

management, budgeting, resource allocation, vendor management,

design, development, implementation, change control, management,

reporting in diverse information technology environments and consulting in international

settings.

52. Michael Greer

Michael is interested in Development and New Technology. For over

three decades, he has helped new project managers become more

effective. He is an author of project management books and runs

his blog.

53. Ricardo Triana

International recognized speaker in leadership and strategic

alignment. PMI Global Chairman 2014. Ricardo has 20 years of

international experience for multinational companies in the strategic

solutions management lifecycle (design, development, sales, delivery,

and support).

54. Margaret Meloni

Founder of Meloni Coaching Solutions, Inc. Mentor in the field of

Conflict Resolution strategies, emotional intelligence, and effective

communication. She treats her work as a hobby and is great in doing it.

More about Margaret you may find on her website.

55. Yogesh Kumar

Agile enthusiast. The engineering director at Oracle responsible for team

development, agile coaching, and program/portfolio management for a

set of tools for Advanced Customer Services business. Yogesh shares

his knowledge on agilehelpline.com.

56. Jill Hart

Certified Project Manager, educator and customer experience

professional. Jill supports people, projects and businesses to succeed.

She says that her passion is designing innovative technology, products,

and processes that deliver optimal customer experiences.

57. Jan Van den Nieuwenhof

An experienced, pragmatic, agile project manager and consultant.

Currently working as Products Unit Manager at TenForce. He is

responsible for managing the sales, marketing, services and

engineering departments.

58. Alexandre Paiva

Project Manager and Microsoft Project enthusiastic. Member of Project

Management Institute. Alexandre runs gerentedeprojeto.net.br blog.

59. John Gough

Working with major organizations in both the public and a private sector.

Currently, John works for Wise Social Media. He is a web entrepreneur

and projects manager. He runs a very solid website full of interesting

articles on the topic of project management.

60. James M Shaffer

Project Management Professional, Blogger, LearnerProject leader. James has

a bachelor‘s degree in Business Administration and a certificate in project

management from Colorado Christian University. He runs his blog.

61. Samad Aidane

Project management consultant and coach. Researcher, also a

consultant and a trainer. With over eighteen years of international

experience consulting in the telecom, finance, and healthcare industries

with companies such as HP, Cap Gemini, Time Warner Telecom, and

Telefonica. He runs his website.

62. Kai Gilb

Teacher, consultant, coach, speaker, author of Evo project

management. Kai Gilb was teaching Agile project management long

before the term existed. You can learn more about his project on his

website.

63. Shoaib Ahmed

Professional Services Practice Manager at Eagle Technology Group

in Wellington, Prince2, MSP, MoP Practitioner, P3M expert. Writing

some fascinating articles not only about project management on

his blog.

64. Carlos Freitas

Project Manager and Consultant. Carlos Augusto is one of the first in

Latin America who received a Certified Associate in Project

Management. Certified as a CAPM and PMP by the PMI and as the

PRINCE2 Practitioner and ITIL by the UK. His work is focused

on management using project, program, portfolio and governance

practices for micro, small and medium enterprise.

65. Michael Krigsman

Strategy Advisor, Enterprise Advocate, Industry Commentator, and a

frequent conference speaker. Michael has written over 1,000 articles on

enterprise software, cloud, CRM, ERP, collaboration, and alignment

between IT and lines of business. You can learn more about him on

his website.

66. Kiron Bondale

Kiron Bondale is a senior project portfolio and change management

professional. An active member of the Project Management Institute.

Kiron has managed multiple mid-to-large-sized change management

projects and has worked in both internal and professional services

project management capacities. He runs his blog.

67. Scott Berkun

Scott Berkun is the author of six bestselling books on creativity,

leadership, philosophy and speaking. He is also a popular speaker on

creativity, philosophy, culture, business and many other subjects. Last

but no least, Scott runs a very successful blog.

68. Pablo Lledó

Entrepreneur, Trainer, and Consultant. Pablo has published eight

project management books, some of them published by Pearson,

including his bestseller ―Project Manager‖. He has given training and

consulting all over the world, and he has spoken at seven PMI global

congresses. The owner ofwww.pablolledo.com.

69. Marc Ouellette

Specialized in project management consulting, KPI & IT Process

Improvement. The owner of Protrain Canada, a business specialized in

Advanced Project Management.

70. Lisa Sieverts

Lisa is an Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), a Project Management

Professional (PMP), and a former board member of the Greater

Monadnock Region Chapter of the Project Management Institute. She

teaches practical project management. Visit her website to learn more.

71. Rick Freedman

Founder and Consultant at Consulting Strategies. The author of ―‖The

Agile Consultant‖. Rick engages with IT consulting firms, organizations,

and professional service divisions to help IT teams develop consulting

and relationship skills.

72. Carole L. Evans

Currently, Director of Education for Solutions Cube Group, who has

managed business and technology departments including Customer

Education, Customer Satisfaction, Software Assurance, Testing

Services, External Conversions, etc. She is responsible for working

with her team to develop and implement strategic and tactical plans

that focus on the growth of the training line of businesses.

73. Sean Hull

Sean is responsible for transformation projects. During the last 15

years, he has been working with Fortune 50 firms, Big Four

Consulting, and non-profit organizations. He had a broad range of

responsibilities- from opportunity/business development to business

case development, RFPs, due diligence, technical / data

assessments, project / budget planning, and international delivery.

Learn more about his work from his website.

74. Glen B Alleman

Now, we are pretty sure that Glen is not a Philosoraptor, but this is the

only available picture of him… He offers an evidence-based project

performance management for software intensive programs in

Aerospace, Defense, Federal, Enterprise IT using Agile at Scale. Glen

shares his considerable knowledge via his blog.

75. Emad E. Aziz

Strategy Execution, Organizational Change, Portfolio, Program and

Project Management Advocate, Speaker, Consultant, Practitioner, &

Coach with experiences in managing programs and projects worth over

10 billion USD in the sectors of Oil & Gas, Business, IT, Construction,

Banking, Politics, Government, Healthcare, and Economic

Development. President and CEO at BRISK Business Inc.

76. Diane Dromgold

Diane is a founder and managing director at RNC Global, a project

turnaround services to fix and deliver failing or troubled projects. RNC

closes the gap between what people want from projects and what

project managers want to do.

77. Wendy Burrows

Project management consultant at Source – the recruitment agency of

choice for Creative Communications people, offering a comprehensive

recruitment solution to the communications industry.

78. Cecilia Boggi

Certified PMP and Certified SDI leadership facilitator. Cecilla is a

consultant, trainer, and speaker in project management and leadership.

She is also a Professor at Universidad Católica Argentina and

Executive Director at activePMO.

79. Soma Bhattacharya

An ex-Project Manager who currently moved on to Agile Consulting

and focuses on running her blog, which combines her passion for

project management as well as looking into the agile way of

transformation and undergoing changes.

80. Erik Van Hurck

MS Project, Project Server, EPM/PPM enthusiast, consultant, and

trainer. Erik runs a blog, where he discusses the project

management, Microsoft Project products, and reviews books on

project management.

81. Susanne Madsen

Project leadership coach, trainer, and consultant. Author of ‗The Project

Management Coaching Workbook‘ and ‗The Power of Project

Leadership‘. She has over 18 years experience in leading large change

programs for global companies. Susanne runs her website.

82. Andy Murray

Project management author and consultant. The co-lead author of P3M3

v3, the lead author of PRINCE2 2009, a contributing author to the IUK‘s

Project Initiation Routemap, a contributor to APM BoK v6 and Directing

Change, also a partner at RSM UK.

83. Ivan Rivera

Computer Engineer with wide experience as business processes

manager. Managerial background developed through directive positions

in companies of services. Innovative, solutions-oriented and with

teamwork coordination abilities. Ivan writes a blog on the topic of project

management.

84. TL Frasqueri-Molina

Responsible for business‘s most critical investments: people, projects

and capital. She calls herself ―the anchor between wildly aspirational

teams and the realities of project budgets, schedules, and business

politics.‖

85. Michal Raczka

Michal is highly organized leader and expert in new technologies, digital

business & project management fields. Always keeps Team in the

center. Value and results focused with the lean and agile

approach. Active in IT and PM Communities, his current position is IT

Strategy and Project Management Vice Director at mBank S.A.

86. Dave Gordon

Dave is an experienced portfolio, program, and project manager.

Lately, he has been managing human capital management

transformation projects for global firms. Over the last 30 years, he has

worked in nearly every IT discipline, for a variety of organizations. He

shares his exceptional knowledge and experience on his blog

87. Edward Wallington

Project management, geospatial and GIS discussions. Senior Project

Manager, Health & Social Care Lead at Esri UK. Founder

of Geocognita.

88. Simon Moore

Award-winning investment forecaster and researcher, frequent

financial media contributor, seasoned financial management

consultant. CIO at FutureAdvisor. The author of Digital Wealth and

Strategic Project Portfolio Management.

89. Randy Tangco

Project Management Professional in IT and Software service

provider. Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. Currently working

as Senior Engagement Manager at ServiceNow.

90. Elaine Jackson

Project Manager Instructor With a 95% success rate. She offers

coaching and training on project management at her website. An

expert in her knowledge area, Elaine provides a breakdown of the

Project Management Professional Exam.

91. Patrick Mayfield

Director of pearcemayfield, author, blogger, project management

consultant, writer and trainer. Patrick is a respected contributor to

best practice literature He has helped author universally adopted

frameworks like MSP and PRINCE2. Learn more about him on

his website.

92. Sanjivv Ssharma

Over 20 years of extensive experience of managing IT Teams and

IT Projects / Delivery Management. Has a strong background in

delivering projects & developing products in various domains.

Sanjivv is a founder member of Infotiate.

93. Daniel Hemhauser

Daniel Hemhauser is a Project Management Professional with a

superior record of delivering simultaneous large-scale projects on

time and under budget. He has extensive experience in the

management, engineering, administration and support of

information systems.

94. Ani Møller

Her specialty is project-designing and managing large-scale digital

projects. She has a background in corporate IT and understands the

complex and political dynamics that often come into play in large

projects for big clients. Currently working as Project Director at Isobar.

95. Andrew Lindsay

Strategic business partner is delivering innovative IT solutions to

international companies. With specialties in stakeholder management,

business process improvement, program management, information

management strategies. Andrew holds the position of Business

Relationship Manager at Wood Group.

96. Elyse Nielsen

Healthcare IT enthusiast and an outcomes driven information technology

leader with over 15 years of healthcare experience focused upon

organizational culture change, staff development, and strategy execution.

Elyse shares her knowledge via a blog.

97. Antonio Volpon

E-commerce User Experience and Project Management Consultant –

mainly for fashion and food and beverages brands. Also, a digital and

web project manager with more than ten years of experience in

managing teams of developers and designers in complex projects.

More information about Antonio you can find on his website.

98. Grandmaster PM

A mysterious individual responsible for, as ha call it: ―Spinning Project

Management‘s Top Hits.‖ Judging by the number of his followers he is

superb at it.

99. Max Walker

Project Manager, leading security deployments and custom

development projects. He leads high-performing project teams in

security programs and custom development, providing vision,

coaching, and mentoring to employees and project teams to deliver

world-class service and support.

100. Manoj Vadakkan

Agile Software Development Consultant. Certified Scrum Trainer. In

his coaching practice, Manoj uses innovative approaches such as

Scrum, Kanban, and Lean to help individuals, teams, and

organizations to achieve their potential. You can find more about him

on his website.

101. Daniel Kudwien

He‘s a 35 years old Project Manager, Web designer, and Web

developer. from Germany. He managed projects like drupal and is

currently working with a team of digital experts, helping other

companies to grow.

102. Eyal Sela

Project manager at the Israeli Internet Association and W 3C. The

author of ProductiveWise: productivity, social media, and Internet

blog.

103. Ryan Garver

Ryan Garver is a project manager from San Diego, he runs a blog

and works on operating systems.

104. Jan Jananayagam

Janani Jananayagam is a British Tamil banking professional, activist

and politician. She was an independent candidate for the London

region in the 2009 European Parliamentary elections.

105. Cheryl Gray

Cheryl Gray has a background in advertising and technical writing with

a master‘s certification in project management. The paranormal figure

heavily in her writing as her passion is psychological speculation and

the universal consciousness. She has written six paranormal tales and

draws on her own vast library of dreams for inspiration.

106. Dan Mezick

Daniel Mezick himself has personally delivered consulting and

training to over 70,000 individuals spanning a period of almost 20

years. You can find more information about this exceptional man on

his website.

107. Scott Ostby

Scott is interested in world class software projects, he works as a

Senior Business Coordinator at Alt Source.

108. Mo Muthengi

Mo is project manager from Kenia, she works on projects that are

supporting people in Africa. Find out more about her inspiring work on

her blog.

109. Laura Chernikoff

Executive Director of the Internet Creators Guild. Laura has been

working with YouTube creators since 2010 when she helped organize

the first VidCon in Century City, California. She has experience

working as a project manager, executive assistant, social media

manager and graphic designer. Find more about Laura on

her website.

110. Panagioti Tsolkas

Coordinator of HRDC‘s Prison Ecology Project and organizer of the

Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons. A former editor on the Earth First!

111. Lori Paschall

Human Resources Leadership, Team Intelligence, and Services

Training Relationship Manager with more than a decade of

experience in adult learning, training, coaching, and instructional

design.

112. Analisa Voces Verdes

Organizer, Campaign Manager, and Musician in Bronx, New

York. Former Project Coordinator at VocesVerdes: Latino Leadership

in Action. Current climate & Bronx organizer for FaithinNewYork.

113. Mike Donoghue

Mike Donoghue is a member of an information technology corporation

where he collaborates on the communications guidelines, standards of

compliance, and customer relationship strategies affecting the

interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed,

defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements

including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization,

relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also

established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training,

and support divisions.

114. Paul Pelletier

Paul Pelletier Consulting (PPC) is a workplace respect management

consulting firm offering a full spectrum of public speaking, training,

and consulting services, also an International consultant on workplace

respect and diversity, project management, leadership, and ethics.

115. Jennifer Bridges

Jennifer Bridges, PMP is the Founder of PDUs2Go.com and President of

Optimo, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in project management and

leadership development. She is also a professional speaker and author of

Optimize Your Thinking: How to Unlock Your Performance Potential and the

associated Thinking Journal and Thought Master series.

116. Joanna Newman

Joanna Newman, MBA, MCMI, PMP, is a senior program manager

working for best of breed technology companies around the world to

manage programs of change, projects, and people.

117. Bruce Harpham

Bruce is a Founder, ProjectManagementHacks.com. A Resource for

Growing IT Project Managers. He is an expert in banking industry

projects and higher education leadership.

118. Dave Garrett

As president and CEO of Project Management.com, Dave Garrett is dedicated

to creating value for the project management community and to the continued

growth of Project Management.com‘s media network (Project

Management.com, projectsatwork.com, and others), which now reaches nearly

600,000 Project Managers Worldwide.

119. Beth Spriggs

A certified PMP with 17 years of project management experience, a

coach, speaker, trainer and an author of The Project Manager‘s Little

Book of Cheats.

120. Mark Mullaly

Mark is a project management iconoclast — love him or hate him,

he still has an opinion, and he‘s not afraid to express it. In many

ways the quintessential ‗accidental project manager‘, Mark is all

about figuring out a better way to get stuff done and isn‘t above

inventing one when the situation calls for it. Find more about Mark

on his website.

121. Gina Abudi

Gina Abudi has 20+ years of consulting experience in helping global

organizations develop and implement a strategy around projects,

processes, and people. She is President of Abudi Consulting Group,

LLC and an adjunct faculty member at Granite State College. She

blogs regularly at GinaAbudi.com. Gina is a member of the Global

Speaker‘s Federation as well as the National Speaker‘s Federation.

She currently serves as a Community Engagement Committee Member (Region 3) for PMI

Educational Foundation.

122. Sean Whitaker

Sean has worked with some of the world‘s most complex mining, IT,

space exploration, defense, energy, banking, research, and

telecommunications organizations helping to improve portfolio,

program and project management capability for the organization and

for individual practitioners.

123. Mike Frenette

Project Manager. Virtual Teams, Enterprise PMO, Agile/Scrum, hybrid

methodologies, speaker, presenter, trainer. The owner of Corvo Project

Management, a Canadian corporation headquartered in Halifax, Nova

Scotia, specializing in project management training and consulting.

Offering PMP Preparation courses virtually and in classroom settings for

corporations and in open enrollment classes. Project Manager. Virtual Teams, Enterprise

PMO, Agile/Scrum, hybrid methodologies, speaker, presenter, trainer.