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Mary McKinlay
Name: Mary McKinlay. BA FAPM MIoD
Managing Director, Mary McKinlay Projects Ltd.
Project Assessment and Training.
Vice President International Project Management Association.
Adjunct Professor of Project Management ESC Lille
Expertise:
Project and Programme Management, Risk Management, Systems Engineering. Special field of interest Aerospace and Defence.
Summary:
Having worked in Project Management for almost 30 years as practitioner, researcher and trainer Mary is a Project Management enthusiast who is often invited as a Conference speaker. Recent events have included the IPMA World Congresses in Budapest, India, Shanghai and Krakow, PM Tage in Vienna, Ukrainian PM Association Kiev, Dubai, Slovenia, Nizhny Novgorod, Vienna, Lisbon and the APM Conference in London. She has given workshops and tutorials all over the world. Following a degree in Systems Engineering, she started her career on the Tornado aircraft project and has subsequently worked on many large programmes. A further dimension was added by participation in research programmes involving collaboration between industry and academics e.g. Alvey, SERC and ESPRIT. One of these projects was to generate a process model for Project Management using soft systems methodologies. This underlined the need for Project Management improvement and influenced her later work.
Having trained in the use of the Project Excellence Model, Mary has acted as an assessor for the IPMA Awards since 2004. She has also jointly delivered Training Workshops for the Awards. She is a Governor of the University of Greenwich and an active member of the UK Institute of Directors..
Professional Interests:
Mary’s main interests are in the principles & theories of programme/project management and development of a closer relationship between Industry and Academe. Working together transnationally and establishment of standards to make this possible. Use of Systems Thinking principles as a foundation for effective project management especially in the field of complexity.
Contact Mary.Mckinlay@marymckinlayprojects.com