George Pitagorsky Biography

George Pitagorsky is a master at The Zen approach and this Project Management idea brings together sound wisdom, a nuts-and-bolts grasp of practicalities, and original insights. The Zen is that missing piece in many business books today. At two Microsoft Corp. product launch events, George Pitagorsky led a key client round table discussion and presented a keynote speech on Blending Enterprise Architecture Project Portfolio Management and Change Management to Optimize Performance. He spoke on the integration of mindfulness and systems thinking to achieve optimal performance. George recognizes that taking an interdisciplinary approach to organizational performance improvement while balancing left and right brain, directed thinking is essential. George is rare speaker who is neither an academic or a single focus subject matter expert. He is a practitioner with decades of meaningful experience and the ability to clearly address the most complex issues with practical solutions with the intention to entertain, stimulate and motivate. He uses systems thinking, process awareness and the mindfulness that enables emotional intelligence as a base to do the work of managing the change required to achieve optimal performance. George Pitagorsky is the author of The Zen Approach to Project Management, The Optimal Performance Series and Conflict Management Applying Mindfulness and Open Mindedness (to be published June 2011). He leads an Enterprise Management and governance implementation program for a government agency. George Pitagorsky is also a master management consultant and facilitator who works to improve personal, group and organizational performance and quality. George assists clients in the area of project and engagement management (from both the client and supplier perspectives) as a management consultant. He assesses organizational maturity and competency, and works to implement improvement and methodology implementation. For example, in a recent project for an national scope engineering consulting firm he directed a team to assess project management (PM) performance in an engagement management context, identify improvement and change management requirements, and created a program plan to implement PM improvement. He also played an important role in the development of a formal PM Competency Model for a global consulting and training organization and its used in assessing large complex organizations in financial services IT and engineering consulting. George has been instrumental in the conception and development of the project management curriculum and core courses of global training services provider. He is a widely respected teacher and in the words of one of his students, “George is an expert in his field. He has a way of teaching people when they do not know they are being taught!” George's unique background includes the practices of Yoga, Tai Chi Chuan and meditation. He has mastered the ability to merge these practices and their underlying principles into an active family and business life. He leads workshops on Change Management, Project Management, Performance Improvement, Conscious Aging, Optimal Energy and other organizational and personal growth topics. He is a recognized teacher of Insight Meditation and has written many articles and papers and also has been a key note speaker on a range of topics: The Zen Approach, Change Management, Open Minded Mindfulness, Performance Improvement through Process Thinking, among others.

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