Randall L. Englund, NPDP, CBM, was a senior project manager at Hewlett- Packard and a member of its corporate Project Management Initiative team. Drawing on many years in program management for high-tech new product development, R&D, marketing, field service, and manufacturing, he now serves as an independent executive consultant at the Englund Project Management Consultancy (www.englundpmc.com) to guide managers and teams on implementing an organic approach to project management. He speaks, trains, and consults across industries and at universities on improving the project environment. His ongoing purpose is to help people discover and implement ways to optimize results from project-based work.

Although he completed an M.B.A. in management at San Francisco State University and a B.S. in electrical engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara, his real education came while managing large projects at HP (twenty-two years) and General Electric (ten years).

Englund has contributed numerous articles and papers on creating an environment for project success, upper-management support, leading with power, speaking truth to power, and creating a political plan. He is coauthor, with Robert J. Graham, of Creating an Environment for Successful Projects (Jossey-Bass, 2004) and, with Robert J. Graham and Paul C. Dinsmore, of Creating the Project Office: A Manager's Guide to Leading Organizational Change (Jossey-Bass, 2003). He is coauthor with Alfonso Bucero, of Project Sponsorship: Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success(Jossey-Bass, 2006).