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Thursday, July 03, 2008
Mary McKinlay in UK joins PM AmbassadorsTM Speakers Bureau
PMForum is pleased to announce that Mary McKinlay, Managing Director of Mary McKinlay Projects Ltd, a Project Assessment and Training firm based in the UK, has joined the PM AmbassadorsTM Speakers Bureau. Based in London, UK and with over 30 years of professional experience, Mary has advised organizations and spoken on project management across the UK and in many other countries in recent years. She has now announced her availability to speak at project management events worldwide.
Mary McKinlay, BA FAPM MIoD, is also currently Vice President of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) and an Adjunct Professor of Project Management at Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Lille (ESC Lille) in Lille, France. Having worked in Project Management for almost 30 years as practitioner, researcher, expert and trainer, Mary is a Project Management enthusiast who is often invited as a Conference speaker.
Recent speaking engagements have included the IPMA World Congresses in Budapest, India, Shanghai and Krakow; PM Tage in Vienna; Ukrainian PM Association conferences in Kiev; conferences in Dubai, Slovenia, Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), Vienna (Austria), and Lisbon (Portugal), and the APM Conference in London. She has given workshops and tutorials all over the world.
Following a degree in Systems Engineering, she started her career in the defence sector on the Tornado aircraft project, subsequently working on many large programmes. A further dimension was added by participation in research programmes involving collaboration between industry and academics e.g. Alvey, SERC and ESPRIT. One of these projects was to generate a process model for Project Management using soft systems methodologies. This underlined the need for Project Management improvement and influenced her later work. Having trained in the use of the Project Excellence Model, Mary has acted as an assessor for the IPMA Awards since 2004. She has also jointly delivered Training Workshops for the Awards. She is a Governor of the University of Greenwich and an active member of the UK Institute of Directors.
Mary’s areas of expertise include Project and Programme Management, Risk Management, Systems Engineering. Special field of interest Aerospace and Defence. Professional interests are in the principles & theories of programme/project management and development of a closer relationship between Industry and Academe; working together trans-nationally and establishment of standards to make this possible; and use of Systems Thinking principles as a foundation for effective project management, especially in the field of complexity.
Potential Presentation Subjects (others available)
The PM Ambassadors TM Speakers Bureau was introduced by PMForum in 2007 as a service for project management leaders and meeting planners worldwide. The program offers leading project management authorities, experts and leaders who are available to 
speak at PM events worldwide with 60 days advance notice. PM AmbassadorsTM include globally-recognized project management professional experts; authors of PM textbooks; former presidents and chairs of PM professional societies; experienced project managers and PM professionals; and retired executives of project and program-oriented organizations.
PM AmbassadorsTM are available to speak at project management conferences, meetings, seminars and workshops, and at corporate events. Interested meeting organizers and planners can contact ambassadors@pmforum.com for more information. Background information about individual speakers, availability and potential presentation topics can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/ambassadors/ambassadors.htm.
Established in 1995, www.pmforum.org was the world’s first website devoted to professional project management and is one of the world’s most popular sources of project management news and information. PMForum also produces the monthly online PM World Today eJournal where articles, case studies, papers and viewpoints by leading PM authorities from around the world can be found; free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net.
Recent speaking engagements have included the IPMA World Congresses in Budapest, India, Shanghai and Krakow; PM Tage in Vienna; Ukrainian PM Association conferences in Kiev; conferences in Dubai, Slovenia, Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), Vienna (Austria), and Lisbon (Portugal), and the APM Conference in London. She has given workshops and tutorials all over the world.
Following a degree in Systems Engineering, she started her career in the defence sector on the Tornado aircraft project, subsequently working on many large programmes. A further dimension was added by participation in research programmes involving collaboration between industry and academics e.g. Alvey, SERC and ESPRIT. One of these projects was to generate a process model for Project Management using soft systems methodologies. This underlined the need for Project Management improvement and influenced her later work. Having trained in the use of the Project Excellence Model, Mary has acted as an assessor for the IPMA Awards since 2004. She has also jointly delivered Training Workshops for the Awards. She is a Governor of the University of Greenwich and an active member of the UK Institute of Directors.
Mary’s areas of expertise include Project and Programme Management, Risk Management, Systems Engineering. Special field of interest Aerospace and Defence. Professional interests are in the principles & theories of programme/project management and development of a closer relationship between Industry and Academe; working together trans-nationally and establishment of standards to make this possible; and use of Systems Thinking principles as a foundation for effective project management, especially in the field of complexity.
Potential Presentation Subjects (others available)
- Project Management using Systems Thinking
- Management of Complex Projects
- Programme Management in the Public Sector
- Project Management in Aerospace & Defence
- Project & Programme Risk Management
- Adding Value through Project Audit
- Stakeholder Identification and Management
- The IPMA Project Excellence Model
The PM Ambassadors TM Speakers Bureau was introduced by PMForum in 2007 as a service for project management leaders and meeting planners worldwide. The program offers leading project management authorities, experts and leaders who are available to
PM AmbassadorsTM are available to speak at project management conferences, meetings, seminars and workshops, and at corporate events. Interested meeting organizers and planners can contact ambassadors@pmforum.com for more information. Background information about individual speakers, availability and potential presentation topics can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/ambassadors/ambassadors.htm.
