23. Level Up your Project and Change Management

S. Ramani currently is a Director in  GRT Consulting LLP, specialising in project, programme and portfolio management, Change Management, AgilePM and Benefits Management, to provide solutions to premier Clients.
GRT Consulting are amongst the very few global organizations offering client specific trainings/ consulting in the full suite of project portfolio management, spanning diverse global standards.

Ramani has over 30 years of hands-on experience in managing large scale projects/ programs, covering ERP implementation, IT systems integration and enterprise transformation, in large organizations (including in PwC Consulting).

Ramani has also extensive experience in designing Project Portfolios (especially in IT domain) and implementing them successfully across multiple sectors.

Ramani holds multiple certifications in the realm of project portfolio management (including AgilePM/ Change Management/ PfMP/ PgMP/ PMP/ PRINCE2/ MSP/MoP/P3O/ MoR/ PRINCE2 Agile/ Certified Scrum Product Owner/ Scrum Master/ Praxis/CHAMPS2). Based on Client requirements, these product offerings are customized appropriately.
Ramani is also an accredited Consultant with AXELOS for P3M3 (for PM maturity assessment and enhancement) and has implemented multiple P3M3 maturity assessment engagements.
Ramani is also the author of the book ‘Improving Business performance – a project portfolio management approach’, which focuses on delivering better business performance through robust project and program/ portfolio management. This book is published by CRC Press, USA and was featured in PMI book reviews.
 

What’s your proudest achievement?

When the Clients implement our solutions and revert back informing these solutions benefitted them, it gives me immense satisfaction, as a Consultant.

Yogyata is working as a Product change leader in the semiconductor industry which is the largest supplier of photolithography systems. She has experience in Operational and Organization Change Management which involves service and product based industries. Her experience spans; commercial, supply chain, operations & technology and across culture and behavioural change, new operating implementations of tools and process-driven business change. She is a passionate change management professional making a positive impact on people, products, and processes in the evolving world of modern business. The fact that she chose to work within Change Management, was in no way a random decision, but a choice based on how much she loves doing what she does - which is what fuels her ambition and determination to grow and be the best version of herself, both professionally as well as personally.

What is Yogyata's proudest achievement?

To be able to participate in a public forum like this with Change management expertise represented across the globe, and to talk about something she is passionate about which is Change Management.

Reading, UK

Shontelle Bryan’s expertise is in organisational change consulting and training. In the Consultancy practice, she works predominantly with Corporate Executives to help them realize their vision for the organisation when new ways of working are implemented.  Shontelle allows Corporate Executives to ‘dream’ of how the future would look and go beyond the conventional, to a future that is streamlined and allows for agility in the marketplace.

Shontelle holds an MBA from Durham University UK, she is an APMG accredited trainer in Change Management and certified in Emotional Intelligence.  She is also qualified with the British Psychological Society to administer Occupational, Ability and Personality tests.

Shontelle’s proudest achievement: My proudest achievement is to see businesses that procured our consultin services transformed, working efficiently and sustaining the new ways of working.  I am also equally proud of our APMG Change Management online courses.

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Patrick is a consultant and educator with more than 30 years of experience helping organizations adopt and adapt best practice frameworks.

His areas of expertise include IT service management, governance, information security, project management and Agile practices, and organizational change management.

Patrick holds certifications as many disciplines including ITSM, governance, project management, Agile, etc.  He is an expert speaker at many national and global industry events, and has authored a wide variety of published articles, including being host of the Making IT Work vlog on YouTube.

Patrick lists his proudest achievement as having had the privilege of working with more than 400 organizations to help them get better results using best practice framework...and having the bruises to prove it!

Rajiv's relationship with APMG spans many years. He has more than 25 years experience managing diverse range of projects, programmes and change management in both private & public sectors in UK and abroad.

This experience has allowed him to develop a strong training and consulting business, acting as the lead trainer for Praxis Framework and Praxis Professional, Agile Project Management, Scrum Master, Scrum Product Owner, Working in Small Projects (WISP), Change Management, Managing Successful Programmes and PRINCE2.

In addition, Rajiv's achievements include:

• Programme, project and change management Consultant for organisations in a range of industries
• High-risk Gateway Reviewer for Cabinet Office
• Author of several blogs, articles and videos in programme, project and change management
• National Field Hockey Umpire and National Coach
• Employee of the Year for LabVantage Solutions Limited

More recently, Rajiv successfully mentored Ricardo Santos and Rebecca Cummings, to become the first and second individuals to achieve their Chartered Project Manager Award from APM via Praxis Professional Route worldwide.

Rajiv's proudest achievement in his work was having the courage to set up Raj Khanna Associates Limited, an accredited training provider, and using the opportunity to mentor and coach several associate trainers. All of our trainers have gone on to become successful and provided excellent learning experiences for our participants.