Michel Thiry

Michel is co-Founder and Managing Partner of Valense, an international network of organizational consultants, and Adjunct Professor at University of Technology Sydney. He was born in Europe and raised in Canada; he now lives in London, UK. He writes in English and French and speaks both languages fluently. He has worked in North and South America, Australasia, the Middle-East, North Africa and most of Europe. In addition to a consultancy practice, he is teaching or has taught at graduate level in Australia, Morocco, the UK and France. He is a regular Keynote Speaker for major International events, both at the Academic and Practice levels since 1996, and Seminar Leader for PMI® SeminarsWorld since 2001. He has written and lectured widely and been invited to sit on expert panels in international Academic and Practitioner forums. The PMI® has just re-edited a revised and updated version of his book "A Framework for Value Management Practice". His 2010 book "Program Management" has been presented with an Award of Merit by the Canadian Project Management Association and is on the PMI's recommended list of readings for the PgMP® Exam. It is now number 7 on the Gower bestseller list. In addition he has written a number of book chapters on Value, Program and Portfolio Management in prominent PM books like the Gower "Handbook of project management" 3rd and 4th editions and the "Wiley Guide to Project, Program and Portfolio Management", published by Wiley (2007). He was also a contributing editor for PM Network from 2003 to 2008 and a "Significant Contributor" to the PMI® Standard for Program Management 3rd Edition (2013) and was on the core team of the new PMI® Practice Guide to Managing Change in Organizations (2013). Michel has obtained a PhD from Middlesex University (London) and was awarded the title of Fellow by the project Management Institute in 2006; in 2007 he became a Fellow of the Association for Project Management (UK) and in 2008, he was awarded the Life Value Achievement Award by the Canadian Society for Value Analysis. Michel continually travels the world gathering new ideas and trying to keep at the forefront of thinking in organisational management and especially organisations that aim to develop project/program and portfolio management as organizational capabilities. He is currently working on a book aimed at executives to increase their organization's competitiveness in a complex and turbulent environment.