Leadership with a Capital "D"

Many speakers have discussed the topic of leadership.  Most will tell you that leaders are born and not made and vice versa.  Some will say that delegation is the key to being a good leader. Others will tell you that without compassion for others and a vision for the future, then there is no way you can be a leader.  In the grand scheme of project management leadership is a necessary skill and most aspects of leadership can be learned.  In this presentation the speaker will demonstrate that the word "Leadership" is actually an acronym that depicts the key facets of a good leader.

Gregg D. Richie, PMP, CNP, MCTS

Gregg is a Senior Project Manager at Key Consulting, Inc., based in Tucson, AZ, which provides consulting and training in project management techniques, including advanced usage of Microsoft Project.   He also teaches project planning at the University of Washington and other topics at colleges in Western Washington on a part‐time basis. With over 32 years of experience in the field of Project Management, he has worked on projects on almost every continent.  One of the most challenging projects included the installation of solar‐powered (photo‐voltaic) electrical systems in some of the most remote parts of the world; from Adak, Alaska, to Midway Island to Antarctica. He joined the US Navy in 1979 and is a 20‐year veteran of the SEABEES, which is the only self‐sustaining, combat‐trained, construction force in the US Armed Forces.   It was here that his love for both teaching and project management was discovered and developed.  He began instructing in 1983, has taught more than 5000 people, in classroom environments, publicly spoken to groups of 1000 or more and developed many training courses. His education includes two technical degrees; one in computer programming and one in civil engineering & architectural drafting; he also holds a Bachelor of Science from Southern Illinois University in Workforce Education and Development; and a Master’s Certificate from Villanova University in Applied Project Management.

As a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, one of his specialties is project planning and scheduling using Microsoft Project.  His reputation for this caught the attention of John Wiley & Sons publishing, which led to a recently finished book in the Microsoft Official Academic Course series on Microsoft Project 2010, which was published in September 2011.

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