About Lisa DiTullio
"Serve Vanilla for Success. In spite of all the flavors offered, it's still the most popular."
Lisa is a leading force in project and business management. She is the principal of Lisa DiTullio & Associates, a PMI® Registered Education Provider and advising practice dedicated to introducing project management as a business competency and the founder of Your Project Office, a service organization that provides virtual project office support services to organizations who do not need or who are not ready for a full-time PMO.
Lisa is the editor of ProjectBestPractices, a quarterly newsletter from ProjectWorld, a regular contributor for the Silicon ValleyPM and Project Connections blogs, and a contributor to PM Network. She is the author of Simple Solutions: How "Enterprise Project Management" Supported Harvard Pilgrim Health Care's Journey from Near Collapse to #1. Lisa's second book, Project Team Dynamics: Enhancing Performance, Improving Results is due out in September 2010. Lisa is also a 2010 PMI SeminarsWorld® provider and a distance-instructor for Prodevia Learning.
As past director of the project management office (PMO) at Boston-based Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Lisa was a core member of the turnaround team for an organization that went from being placed in State-supervised receivership in 1999 to being the #1 Health Plan in America on the U.S. News & World Report five years in a row.
Lisa is a recognized international speaker in her field. Scores of organizations - from college campuses to governmental agencies to Fortune 100 companies have gained from Lisa's insights and tell-it-like-it-is keynotes and programs. Audience members leave educated, engaged and energized - armed with actionable practices for immediate success.
Lisa actively supports her community; she is on the Board of Directors for the South Shore Chamber of Commerce, and is immediate past-chair of the Women's Business Connection, a preeminent women's organization within the South Shore Chamber of Commerce. She is also a member of the ATHENAPowerLink® Governing Body, a group which oversees a program to provide women-owned businesses an opportunity to work with a panel of experts to grow their business.
With a blended family of five children at home, Lisa has a first-hand appreciation of how simplicity works in keeping it all together.
Lisa is also a member of the National Speakers Association .
