ABOUT THE EDITORS

PAUL C. DINSMORE, PMP

Paul C. Dinsmore, PMP, is an international speaker and seminar leader on project management. He is the author of ten books, including Winning in Business with Enterprise Project Management, and has written more than one hundred professional papers and articles. Mr. Dinsmore is president of Dinsmore Associates, a training and consulting group focused on project management and team building. Prior to establishing his consulting practice in 1985, he worked for twenty years as a project manager and executive in the construction and engineering industry for Daniel International, Morrison Knudsen International, and Engevix Engineering.

Mr. Dinsmore has performed consulting and training services for major companies including IBM, ENI-Italy, Petrobras, General Electric, Mercedes Benz, Shell, Control Data, Morrison Knudsen, the World Trade Institute, Westinghouse, Ford, Caterpillar, and Alcoa. His speaking and consulting practice has taken him to Europe, South America, South Africa, Japan, China, and Australia. The range of projects where Mr. Dinsmore has provided consulting services includes company reorganization, project start-up, development and implementation of project management systems, and training programs, as well as special advisory functions for the presidents of several organizations. Mr. Dinsmore contributes articles to such professional magazines as PM Network and Chief Project Officer. He participates actively in the Project Management Institute, which awarded him its Distinguished Contributions Award as well as the prestigious title of Fellow of the Institute. He is also on the Board of Directors of the PMI Educational Institute.

Mr. Dinsmore graduated from Texas Tech University and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He can be reached at [email protected].

JEANNETTE CABANIS-BREWIN

Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, principal of The WordSource, LLC, has written about the human and organizational aspects of project management for more than sixteen years, and has contributed, as editor or author, to 20 project-management books. She is editor in chief of the research arm (formerly The center for Business Practices) of the project-management consulting firm PM Solutions, Inc. A former staff writer and editor for the Project Management Institute’s Publishing Division, she has researched and written hundreds of articles for print and online publications, including PM Network, People on Projects, The Project Management Best Practices Report, the Best Practices e-Advisor, Chief Project Officer, Projects@Work, developer.com, Primavera magazine, myplanview.com, and Project Manager Planet.

She has edited three award-winning project management books, including The Strategic Project Office by J. Kent Crawford, winner of PMI’s 2002 David I. Cleland Literature Award, and is coeditor with James S. Pennypacker of What Makes a Good Project Manager? She is also the coauthor, with J. Kent Crawford, of Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office and Seven Steps to Strategy Execution.

Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin has a BA in English, Professional Writing Concentration (summa cum laude) from Western Carolina University and has done graduate work in organizational development (WCU) and nonprofit management (Duke University). In 2007, the Project Management Institute honored her with a Distinguished Contributions Award.