2019

Edward J. Leydon is a successful international business leader with over 20 years of Engineering, Program Management, and Strategy Development experience including key accomplishments as Staff Systems Engineer and Engineering Program Manager at Lockheed Martin, PMO Director at Honeywell Aerospace, and Director of PMO and Strategy at Beacon Red-EDGE. Currently, Edward is Head of PMO with Computercraft at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NIH). Edward possesses strong leadership skills including the ability to influence teams by managing critical initiatives to deliver consistent results on time, within budget, and meeting specifications. He has a proven history of quickly understanding complex technical applications and developing innovative solutions to critical challenges. He has led successful enterprise-level $100M+ annual budget transformational business initiatives working with leadership teams and executive (C-Level) leadership managing program performance budget, schedule, scope, resources, and critical deliverables.

Steve Salisbury has helped dozens of executives grow their businesses. Steve’s unique approach is all about understanding and adjusting organizational culture and then executing strategy quickly, effectively, and with the highest return possible. Steve evaluates interpersonal, organizational, and process elements to eliminate cross-functional dysfunction and builds teams to create a leadership culture to drive exponential growth. Steve has worked with some of the world’s most recognizable organizations to drive growth by creating capacity, galvanizing leaders, and driving accountability. Comfortable in culturally diverse settings, Steve has worked in many international companies throughout Asia, Latin America, and Europe, as well as in the United States. In 2020, Steve published his first book, Activate: 15 Steps to Profitable Strategy Execution. The Activate approach demonstrates how to drive greater profitability faster. Steve also serves as a volunteer mentor for SCORE Chicago, an organization that provides small business advice to help companies start, grow, and operate efficiently. When speaking, Steve weaves in lessons from his rich and broad history, including agriculture, winemaking, lay ministry, and leadership – in addition to his varied corporate, public sector, and not-for-profit business and leadership experience. Steve spent most of his adult life in southwestern Michigan and recently returned there after living in Chicago for ten years. He now lives with his wife on the southwestern Michigan family vineyard estate his parents bought in the 1960s.

Stuart Easton is the founder and CEO of TransparentChoice. He is on a mission to help PMOs deliver successful projects. A guest lecturer on project prioritization at the University of Oxford, Stuart also speaks at various PMO conferences and events. His talks usually focus on how PMOs can deliver strategic value, identify waste and eliminate pet projects.

Bharat Nain is a Lead Software Developer at WGSN, with 12+ years of experience in software engineering and project management. Over the past decade, he has led several multi-disciplinary engineering teams developing consumer-facing products across the e-commerce and video streaming space. In his work with companies like AMC Networks, Optus Sport, Sundance Now, and The Vitamin Shoppe, he has been able to transform strategic plans into tangible, effective solutions. His hands-on organizational leadership style has enabled him to attract, build and nurture high-performing engineering teams. He began honing his leadership skills more than 15 years ago during his work as a FIRST Robotics technical advisor and mentor, a volunteer role which he continues to this day, managing teams of more than 80 people at international robotics events from Istanbul to Mexico City.

Ellen began life in project management within the third sector on fundraising and awareness campaigns, before moving into PMO management. She created the first Guide Dogs for the Blind PMO in 2015 before moving on to Ella’s Kitchen and setting up their unique ‘Smoothly’ team in 2017.

Barbara A. Trautlein, PhD is author of the best-selling book Change Intelligence: Use the Power of CQ to Lead Change that Sticks, principal and founder of Change Catalysts, and originator of the CQ® System for Developing Change Intelligence®.

PMOGA selected Jennie Fowler as a top three finalist for PMO Leader of the Year for The Americas. Jennie started a new journey in 2021 as the Global Director of Project Management with Percepta in January.

Andy Jordan is President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., a Roatan, Honduras based management consulting firm with a strong emphasis on organizational transformation, portfolio management, and PMOs. Andy is an in-demand speaker and author who delivers thought-provoking content in an engaging and entertaining style and is also an instructor in project management related disciplines including PMO and portfolio management courses on LinkedIn Learning.

Wolfram Müller is internationally known as a speaker, author, and expert on self-organized changes based on the "Theory of Constraints." As early as 1987, while studying and later as head of the PMO at 1&1 Internet AG, he discovered the fun of fast projects. Since 2006, he has made this fun, and his many years of expertise are available to others as a consultant: More than 50 companies, from start-ups to medium-sized businesses to corporations with 6,500 employees from all industries, have benefited from his knowledge and methods to date. Whether in the automotive sector, special mechanical engineering, IT, or medical technology. Companies such as Festo, Endress+Hauser, Megger, Otto Fuchs, and Bosch swear by his expertise. The results are always similar: at least +50% more projects with the same resources as well as a reduction in project lead time of 25-50% within a few weeks.

Emma-Ruth Arnaz-Pemberton is the Director of Consulting Services at Wellingtone; a PPM consultancy firm with offices in Windsor (UK), Madrid (Spain) and Dublin (Ireland). She is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management (APM), is part of the PMI UK Board, member of IPMA AEIPRO, PMI Spain, an Axelos P3M3 Assessor, and an NLP Master Practitioner with a Diploma in Modern Applied Psychology.