Meet your project management educators
We are professors, lecturers, instructors, and facilitators all with a common goal to improve your capabilities and competency as a project manager.
Core PM Faculty
Dr. Vijay Kanabar, Associate Professor, Director, Project Management
Dr. Steve Leybourne, Assistant Professor in Project and Innovation Management, Director of Student Admissions
E-Mail: sleyb@bu.edu
Web: http://people.bu.edu/sleyb
Telephone: (+1) 617-358-5626
Biography
My name is Steve Leybourne, and I am the designer and lead instructor for the AD643 – Project Communications Management course. I have been teaching at BU since January 2009, and I also teach Innovation and Entrepreneurship at BU MET. As you will no doubt want to know a little about me, I have provided a summary of my academic background, as well as my professional and work-based experience.
Academic
I have been a full time academic for the last twenty years, spending time at Cardiff Business School in the UK, where I undertook my PhD researching “behaviors within project-based change”. Incidentally, Cardiff is currently ranked as the fourth best Business School in the UK. I then spent seven years teaching and researching at Plymouth Business School, in the South West of England, before moving to BU at the beginning of 2009.
My academic specialties are ranged around human behavior in groups and organizations, and innovation and entrepreneurship in individuals and organizations. I also research and publish about project-based and organizational change, and the development and use of improvised working practices. I have also been involved with major international research on the future of project-based Management, and in 2007 I published an influential article that documents the wider academic theory that underpins project-based work.
I have published my work in the leading project management journals, Project Management Journal, the Project Management Research & Practice journal, where I am an Associate Editor, the International Journal of Managing Business in Projects, and the International Journal of Project Management. I have also published in the Journal of General Management, the Journal of Change Management, and the International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, amongst others. I also present my work at major international conferences, including ten Academy of Management (AOM) conferences, and six PMI Research Conferences, and four IRNOP conferences. I have also presented at the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM). I was presented with a ‘best paper’ award by the Academy of Management in 2006, and by the International Management Development Association in 2009.
I am also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Administrative Science & Technology, and I was an invited ‘Keynote’ speaker at the 5th Brazil PM Congress in Brasilia in October 2010. I also regularly give talks and ‘keynotes’ at PM conferences.
Much of my published work is available from my BU website, at: http://people.bu.edu/sleyb.
Professional
Before becoming an academic, I spent over twenty years working in the Banking and Finance sector, initially in lending, then as a Senior Lending Manager and Company Secretary in the Commercial Lending area. I then shifted to the project management of change within a major UK and international banking group, designing and implementing technical and behavioral change within the parent company and a number of subsidiaries. I also ended up as the “resident expert” on project-based management, and trained other managers and executives in project-based working practices.
I worked in the Banking and Finance industry at a time when technical innovation was a particularly important area, and was intimately involved in the design of new systems and procedures for credit scoring, CRM, and the networking of branch systems.
I still keep in touch with the finance world, and much of my behavioral change research is carried out there, including that for my PhD. I have also carried out consultancy work, both within the Banking and Finance sector, and elsewhere.
- Virginia Greiman
Rich Maltzman, PMP
Professional background: Rich Maltzman, PMP, has 40 years of industry experience, starting as an engineer since 1978 and as project management director since 1988, including a two-year assignment in the Netherlands in which he built a team of PMs overseeing deployments of telecom networks in Europe and the Middle East. His project work has been diverse, including projects such as the successful deployment of the entire video and telecom infrastructure for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, and the 2006 integration of the program management offices (PMOs) of two large merging corporations. Up until his retirement in 2018, Rich served as Leader, Learning and Professional Development, for Nokia’s 2,500 project managers in their PMO.
An intertwined educator career: Rich has also focused on consulting and teaching, having developed curricula and/or taught at several universities. Rich has written and presented papers at international conferences of PMI and IPMA (International Project Management Association), and the Conference Board in South Africa, The Netherlands, Costa Rica, and Mexico City and at PMI Congresses in North America. He also presented, on request of the Government of Malaysia, at their Green Technology conference in Kuala Lumpur in 2013, and taught project management for an MBA program at Shenyang University of Technology in 2017.
Education: Rich’s educational background includes a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst, and an MSIE from Purdue University. In addition, Rich has a mini-MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He has a certificate in International Business from INSEAD and Indiana University in 1999. Rich received his PMP in 2000 and was certified by Change Catalysts as a CQ Certified Change Management Professional in 2015.
Publications: Rich has co-authored five books – Green Project Management (CRC Press, ©2010, Cleland Award Winner) with David Shirley, PMP, Project Workflow Management with Dan Epstein, ©2014, and, Driving Sustainability Success in Projects, Programs and Portfolios ©2015, CRC Press, and Bridging the PM Competency Gap, ©2017 J Ross. A new book, How to Facilitate Productive Project Planning Meetings, was published by Maven House in late 2018.
- Thomas Lechler (Visiting)
Part-Time Faculty
Carl Belack
For the past 36 years, Carl has been a practitioner, consultant, writer, and educator in the field of project and program management. His experience spans diverse industries including defense acquisition, construction, manufacturing, hardware and software development, finance, and professional services. During the last 6 years he has turned his attention to exploring the contributions of human behavior and uncertainty to the complexity of project and program environments. A co-author of both Managing Complex Projects (with Dr. Harold Kerzner) and PMI’s Navigating Complexity: A Practice Guide, he is currently the principal consultant and owner of Carl Belack Consulting and an Adjunct Professor at Boston University. He is currently co-editing and co-authoring Cognitive Readiness in Project Teams: Reducing Project Complexity and Increasing Success in Project Management, scheduled to be published in late 2018.
Mike Cipriano
Pamela Campbell
Gerry Keegan
Facilitators
- David Silberman, PhD
- Richard Willson
- Lenworth Gordon
- Patricia Catlow
- Loredana Abramo
- Richard Schoenfeld
- Joann Frantino