ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lisa DiTullio is the principal of Your Project Office, a PMI® Registered Education Provider and consulting practice dedicated to introducing project management as a business competency and enabling organizations to improve decision-making, instill accountability, and enhance communications. Her business offers training programs and advisory services that support project/business management and team building activities as well as virtual project office support services to organizations that do not need a fulltime PMO.

Lisa is the editor of ProjectBestPractices, a quarterly newsletter from ProjectWorld; a regular contributor to the Silicon Valley PM and Project Connections blogs; and a contributor to PM Network. She is the author of Simple Solutions: How “Enterprise Project Management” Supported Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s Journey from Near Collapse to #1. She is a recognized international speaker in her field.

As past director of the PMO at Boston-based Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Lisa was a core member of the turnaround team for an organization that went from being placed in state-supervised receivership in 1999 to being the “Number One Health Plan in America,” according to US News & World Report, five years in a row.

Lisa is on the Board of Directors for the South Shore Chamber of Commerce and is past chair of the Women’s Business Connection, a preeminent women’s organization within the South Shore Chamber of Commerce. She is also a member of the ATHENA PowerLink Governing Body, which oversees a program to provide women-owned businesses an opportunity to work with a panel of experts to grow their businesses.