2020

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.

As prior President & Chief Executive Officer of the Project Management Institute (PMI), Sunil Prashara was the lead advocate for PMI’s global organization, serving more than three million professionals working in nearly every country of the world. His primary responsibility was to implement PMI’s global strategic plan with a priority on strategic focus, customer centricity and organizational agility. This includes expanding the PMI footprint globally, as well as digitizing PMI’s offerings and platforms to benefit its members and a variety of other stakeholders. The plan will also continue to enhance and advocate for the profession of project management. Sunil was named CEO of PMI in March of 2019. He brought more than three decades of valuable global leadership to PMI, with a solid track record of setting and delivering strategy, managing large-scale transformation agendas, and meeting growth targets for international organizations.

Sean Pales is the founder of ProSymmetry and Tempus Resource. Recognized by Gartner Research and deployed globally and across the Global Fortune 1000, Tempus Resource is a purpose-built resource forecasting and capacity planning platform. Tempus Resource is used by audit, product development, research & development, and IT organizations around the world to forecast, track and manage resources. Combining ease of use with scenario planning and what-if analysis features, Tempus allows businesses to quickly dispose of low value PPM, homegrown and/or Excel-based tools and advance their resource management maturity. Prior to founding ProSymmetry, Sean was responsible for enterprise sales engineering for Microsoft in the midwestern United States. Sean holds his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Lisa-Ann is an experienced consultant, teacher, and author passionate about improving how projects are managed – by organizations, teams, and people. She believes that everyone – organization and individual – needs a productive Project Management Mindset to achieve their goals, and works with them to build that mindset. Lisa-Ann works with organizations to assess pain points, identify solutions, and implement changes to how projects are identified, prioritized, planned, and monitored. She also works with individuals to improve their skills in project management and leadership through on-site, on-line, and hybrid training and coaching programs. Lisa-Ann is adjunct faculty at Northwestern University, recently published two books on project management, is launching a new curriculum of online learning resources.

Philip Martin is CEO of Cora Systems. Philip worked for a decade in engineering and management roles, primarily for the telecommunications industry, before founding Cora Systems in 1999. Drawing on 30 years’ experience in the portfolio and project management industry, he has built a global client base across Europe, the Middle East and USA. He previously held positions with major US multinationals, including 3Com, Tellabs, DSC and Pulse Engineering. Philip is an electronic systems engineering graduate of Ulster University.

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is a leading expert in project management and strategy implementation, recognized by Thinkers50 with the prestigious award “Ideas into Practice.” He is the author of the “HBR Project Management Handbook”, “Lead Successful Projects”, “The Project Revolution” and “The Focused Organization”, and has been teaching project management for almost two decades to senior executives through Duke CE, Skolkovo, Solvay Business School, and Vlerick. Former Chairman of the Project Management Institute, he is the founder of Projects & Co, and co-founder of the Strategy Implementation Institute and the global movement Brightline. Antonio has held executive positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, BNP Paribas, and GlaxoSmithKline.