Antonio Nieto-Rodríguez

WORLD’S LEADING CHAMPION ON PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION.

Author of HBR - Project Management Handbook and the bestseller "The Focused Organization".

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Antonio’s research and global impact in modern management has been recognized by Thinkers50 with the prestigious award “Ideas into Practice” and is ranked #17 in the global gurus Top 30 list. He is part of Marshall Goldsmith 100 coaches.

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Antonio Nieto-Rodríguez is the acclaimed author of the HBR – The Project Economy Has Arrived article and the «HBR – Project Management Handbook» the only manual you need to launch, lead, and sponsor successful projects. According to Antonio Nieto, we’re now living in the project economy. The number of projects initiated in all sectors has skyrocketed, and project management skills have become essential for every leader and manager. Worthy projects are starved of time and resources and fail to deliver benefits, while too much investment goes into the wrong projects. To compete in the project economy, you need to close this gap.

In addition, Antonio Nieto-Rodríguez is bestselling author of “Lead Successful Projects” (Penguin, 2019), “The Project Revolution” (LID, 2019). and “The Focused Organization” (Taylor&Francis, 2014), and has contributed to seven other books. A pioneer and leading authority in teaching and coaching senior executives the art and science of strategy execution and project management. Currently visiting professor at Duke CEInstituto de EmpresaSolvayVlerickEcole des Ponts, and Skolkovo.

He is a much in demand speaker at events worldwide. Over the past 20 years Antonio has presented at more than 200 conferences around the world, regularly evaluated as the best speaker. European Business Summit, Strategy Leaders Forum, Gartner Summit, TEDx, and EU Cohesion Policy Conference with EU President Donald Tusk; are some of the events he has delivered inspirational keynotes.

His work focuses on advising senior leaders on how to lead transformational change; prioritize and implement strategic initiatives; build high-performing teams; work across silos and become a learning organization; all essential elements to create a culture that strives for execution, excellence, and collaboration.

 

Antonio is a former Global President of the Project Management Institute.

 

He is the Director of the Program Management Office at GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines. Previously he worked as Head of Project Portfolio Management at BNP Paribas Fortis. Prior he was Head of Post-Merger Integration at Fortis Bank, leading the acquisition of ABN AMBRO, the largest in financial service history. He also worked for ten years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, becoming the global lead practitioner for project and change management.

Antonio Nieto-Rodríguez is an economist with an MBA from the London Business School and an International Director Program from INSEAD. He speaks five languages ​​fluently.

The Project Economy Has Arrived – MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP

Execution Thriving Culture – LEADERSHIP

Hear what can be learned from the failure of the largest acquisition in the Financial Sector history, the takeover of ABN AMBRO; and GE’s key ingredients for successful M&As.

Successful M&As - GROWTH

Find inspiration from the world’s most astonishing disruptions, like Ryanair, Uber, Philips and Tesla and the crucial role that leadership plays in today’s turbulent times.

Navigating Disruption - INNOVATION

Dalai Lama, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, and other great leaders have one common skill: their ability to focus. Learn how to increase focus and raise productivity, happiness and personal satisfaction.

Enhance Focus - LEADERSHIP

Learn the next generation of Project Management, PMOs and Portfolio Management; how to become a project driven organization to accelerate successful implementation.

The Project Manifesto - GROWTH

Banking, Pharma, Oil, Gas, Telecom, Retail, Professional Services... whatever the industry, the future will be different, discover the latest trends and how they will impact your organization.

Corporate Governance 2.0 - GROWTH

​​​​​​InBev, Facebook, Inditex... world class Boards' of Directors shifted their focus from value preservation – monitoring - to value creation – leading. Understand how.

Policy Implementation - LEADERSHIP

​​​​​​​​​​​​​Successful governments craft a long-term vision for their countries and regions and focus on policy implementation. UAE and Singapore started decades ago, hear how.

Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook: How to Launch, Lead, and Sponsor Successful Projects.

The one primer you need to launch, lead, and sponsor successful projects.

We're now living in the project economy. The number of projects initiated in all sectors has skyrocketed, and project management skills have become essential for every leader and manager. Still, project failure rates remain extremely high. Why? Leaders oversee too many projects and have too little visibility into them. Project managers struggle to translate their hands-on, technical knowledge up to senior management. The result? Worthy projects are starved of time and resources and fail to deliver benefits, while too much investment goes into the wrong projects. To compete in the project economy, you need to close this gap. The HBR Project Management Handbook shows you how.

In this comprehensive guide, project management expert Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez presents a new and simple framework that will increase any project's likelihood of success. Packed with case studies from many industries worldwide, it will teach you how to manage your organization's projects, strategic programs, and agile initiatives more effectively and push the best ones ahead to completion. Timeless yet forward-looking, this book will help you win in the project-driven world.

Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook: How to Launch, Lead, and Sponsor Successful Projects.

The Project Revolution: How to succeed in a project driven world.

Every aspect of our lives is becoming a set of projects. The speed of change witnessed in the past decade has radically affected the way we organize and manage our companies and work. Many of the traditional activities in organizations will soon be carried out by automation and robots. In this new landscape, projects are becoming the essential model to create value. In short, we are witnessing the rise of the project economy. Leading projects thinker Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez explains the reasons behind, and the tremendous consequences, that this unnoticed disruption is having in our lives. He looks at how some leading companies, governments, schools, and universities have already embraced projects as the way to deliver on their strategy and ambitions. Ultimately, this book explains how individuals and companies can develop the competencies required to transform and thrive in the new digital and project-driven economy.

The Project Revolution: How to succeed in a project driven world.

The Focused Organization.

Improving top’s management Focus

HOW CONCENTRATING IN JUST A FEW KEY INITIATIVES CAN DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE STRATEGY EXECUTION

Most aptly named The Focused Organization, Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez’ book discusses how fewer, more effectively elected and managed projects are the key to strategy execution and long-term success and how project management is a key in this process.

Organizations that focus on just a few key initiatives are able to perform significantly better than organizations trying to achieve too many objectives. This focused approach not only impacts organizations financially but also assists them in achieving strategic objectives, motivating staff and in this way resulting in profitable organizations.

The Focused Organization.

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