Elizabeth Harrin, MA, FAPM, MBCS is an author, copywriter and content marketing strategist for project management firms. Elizabeth also works as a practising project and programme manager. She spent eight years working in IT for financial services (including two based in Paris, France) before moving into healthcare. Elizabeth has over 10 years’ experience in healthcare technology, and she has worked on large-scale IT implementations including introducing new radiology systems to over 30 hospitals and leading the implementation of a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system across the business. She currently leads compliance and business change projects.
Elizabeth is a PRINCE2®, MSP® and P3O® Practitioner, and holds the ITIL® Foundation certificate. She is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management and a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI). She holds degrees from the University of York and Roehampton University.
She is the author of five books about project management: Communicating Change, Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World (which was a finalist in the Management Book of the Year Awards 2014 and is now in its second edition), Collaboration Tools for Project Managers, Customer-Centric Project Management and now this one. Elizabeth has also written several ebooks.
She’s particularly interested in stakeholder engagement and team communications and how these affect project outcomes. Elizabeth is the award-winning blogger behind A Girl’s Guide to Project Management (www.girlsguidetopm.com), a specialist project management blog aimed at helping people manage their projects with more confidence and less stress. She is widely published on project management topics and has contributed to numerous websites and magazines. She speaks at conferences internationally.
You can find Elizabeth online at www.girlsguidetopm.com or:
- Twitter: @girlsguidetopm
- Facebook: facebook.com/girlsguidetopm or in the Project Management Café group: facebook.com/groups/projectmanagementcafe (come and join us!)
- Pinterest: pinterest.com/girlsguidetopm