The Project Leadership Circle: CIO Randy Miller Shares Social Networking Experience to Create a Sustainable Career

By Dave Cornelius, MBA, PMP, PMI-ACP PMI-OC Vice President of Communications, Marketing, and Outreach Randy Miller is an award-winning chief information officer who has delivered results for companies such as Rockwell International and Toshiba, and currently works at Golden State Water.  He is a Six Sigma Champion with a master’s degree in business administration, and…

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The Project Leadership Circle: Mark Sarago, CIO

The Value of Project Management to the CIO By Dave Cornelius, MBA, PMP, PMI-ACP PMI-OC Vice President of Communications, Marketing, and Outreach With 15 years of experience as chief information officer (CIO), Mark Sarago serves as a strategist for VMware’s Accelerate Advisory Services team, helping enterprise customers define and communicate their information technology (IT) strategy…

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Lend a Helping PM Hand: Project Management for Social Good & Rock Harbor’s Back-to-School Drive

Dave Cornelius, PMP, PMI-ACP Recently, I met with Justin Fox, Rock Harbor Costa Mesa City Pastor, to gather insights into the church’s “Back-to-School Drive” project.  The economic downturn has impacted schools everywhere.  Teachers are purchasing classroom supplies and students are returning to class without the necessary tools to succeed.  Rock Harbor partnered with schools in…

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The Value Driven Continuum/Contributor

Our April Advanced Topics Seminar was presented by Dave Cornelius, PMI-OC Director of External Collaboration, to 32 attendees; all but one were PMPs. Dave began with the different leadership styles including: The Great Man. These autocratic leaders, born with natural leadership capabilities, are transactional and bureaucratic, inspire workers through wages, do not share visions, and use power and politics in the environment.…

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