I first became involved in project management quite accidentally! While working in a large organisation which was going through huge change I realised that these changes would only be successful if people delivered projects effectively. But, no one had received any training in this area! I ran a series of workshops and saw that this was an important area - working to help organisations deliver projects on time and to budget. I have personally trained many thousands of people to deliver projects effectively. In addition, I have spoken at conferences, coached individuals and worked with project teams. After encouragement from a couple of grateful workshop participants I wrote Deliver That Project - a practical guide to delivering projects. Alongside this my big project is to make my company Project Agency even more successful. We work with a wide range of clients providing them with project management training alongside developing in-house project management systems to ensure a uniform approach to project delivery.

Started in IT as a programmer way back in 1975 when punch cards were new! Gradually worked my way up to Project Manager and for about 15 years managed projects in diverse industries such as financial services, oil refining, electricity generation, home shopping, etc. Eventually I realised that project management was far too hard, so here I am teaching it and loving every minute. Qualifications: B.Sc. (hons) Mathematics, MBCS, CITP, CE, PRINCE2 Accredited Trainer.

Elizabeth has been managing projects for nearly a decade and passes on some of that experience through her blog A Girls Guide to Project Management. She has also put some of her expertise, as well as the experiences of dozens of others, in her book \"Project Management in the Real World\". Elizabeth is a PRINCE2 Practitioner and trained in the Six Sigma process improvement methodology. Elizabeth is a member of the British Computer Society, spent eight years working in financial services (including two based in Paris, France), and now works in London in the healthcare industry. Elizabeth has a BA from the University of York and an MA from Roehampton University. Her research interests are the roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders and their interactions across culturally diverse, distributed project teams. She is a member of the Projects@Work editorial board and a correspondent for the ICPM.