Dhanu Kothari

"The Universe is Hostile to the Success of Your Projects! What are you doing about it?"

Dhanu Kothari is an enthusiastic and a passionate motivational speaker with extensive breadth and depth of Project Management experience with HP, DEC, Honeywell, Nortel, Scotiabank, Univac and the Norwegian Computing Center. His speeches, presentations and workshops are consistently rated as “Excellent” and “Outstanding”.

He is president of D2i Consulting, a firm specializing in delivery and consulting including methodology, process, governance, audits, coaching and training. He has a special interest in managing project reset and recovery. Dhanu holds a B.Sc. in Mech. Eng. from Pune, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Production Eng. from the Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He has frequently presented at NASA Project Management Challenge conferences, PMI Symposiums, PMI SIGS and Chapters, and several professional associations.

Dhanu is a past President of the Project Management Institute (PMI), Southern Ontario Chapter, Canada, and the Rotary Club of Newmarket. Dhanu has also authored two books on Project Management titled: “Rainbows & Ratholes: Best Practices for Managing Successful Projects” and “Managing Project Recovery”.

Presentations and Workshops Delivered

 Failure is Not an Option: Managing Project Recovery

 Getting Work Done: The Human Side of Project Management

 Show’N Tell: The Professional Project Manager’s Toolkit

 Rainbows & Ratholes: Learning from Best Practices

 Learning from the Lessons Learned: The STEALTH Technique

 It won’t Happen if You Can’t Communicate

 Managing & Motivating Successful Teams

 Project Management – The Consultative Approach

 PMBOK & BABOK: An Integrated View of Project Mgt. & Bus. Analysis

 Make It Visible – The Toyota Way for Project Management

Client Organizations (Webinars, Speeches, Papers & Publications)

 NASA Project Management Challenge Conferences: 2009, 2010 and 2012

 PMI-ISSIG and PMI-IT&T SIG - Delivered 1 hour Webinars

 PMI-SOC Chapter (workshop, 200+ attendees, Project Recovery)

 ICE/CIPS Technology Conference (workshop, Team Building)

 PMI Chapters – Dinner Speaker at Lakeshore, Durham, CTT, SWO, Peterborough, CIPS-ITSIG

 Presentation for IEEE and ASQC Chapters, ProjectWorld Toronto

 Guest Editor – CIPS Special Issue on Project Management

 PMI Symposiums – Papers at Long Beach, San Diego, Pittsburgh

 Industry conferences – Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto

 Published articles - PMI-ISSIG Review, Project Times, Automation and Control, Office Automation

 Public Service Professionals Assn.- Toronto PSPMF, Ottawa DPI 2010