Chief Consultant, Mentor, Coach and Trainer on Strategy, Portfolio, Program and Project Management with 28+yr Experience

Founder of PM-Pulse, Management Consultancy Org. with global outreach.

Founder of publication house and Chief Author, “Read & Pass Notes”.

Founder and chief content creator, pmvideo (video site dedicated to Leadership, Senior Management and Project Management courses).

Founder and main anchor, dhwani (first audio platform dedicated purely to program and project management).

Contributor and part-time volunteer at NGO Saathi (President’s award-winning NGO in Bastar Region of India for revival of ancient tribal arts and science).

Career In Summary:

As an employee worked for Manufacturing, Information Technology, Banking, Defense and Automotive organizations and participated in projects and programs with maximum worth of USD 120 Million and with a team size of just above 1,240 team members spread over 11 countries. Programs and projects done using every single project management methodology and team models.

Started PM-Pulse in 2006 with the aim of consulting on Strategy, portfolio, program and project management.

Since 2006, trained over 55,000 professionals in 18 countries spread over 3 continents on topics and engagements covering almost the entire span from Strategy to Project Tool Implementation, across all major domain and industries where projects are undertaken.

Partnered with GeProS, (German Projects Consulting Organization) for larger consulting engagements with global organizations on the topics of Advanced Leadership, Cross Cultural Teams, Virtual Team Assessments and Program Management. Partners since 2009.

Provide(d) consultation to some of the largest Automotive companies, Shipping undertakings, Construction and Infrastructure organizations, Financial Institutions, IT Majors, Railways, Aviation Companies, Microsystem companies, Telecom Majors, Manufacturing mammoths, Oil & Gas and Defense establishments.

Usually consult on Organizational Strategy, Organizational Structure, Program Complexity Calculations, Estimation process establishment, Recovering or Stabilizing Failing Programs and Projects, Organizational Changes & Change Management, Project Management Office Set Up (PMO / VDO), Agile Process Implementation, Agile Project Hand Holding, Process GAP analysis for Process Enhancement as well as complete Re-engineering, Project Management Discipline establishment, Productivity Matrix Creation and Research, Project Piloting for enhanced processes, Project Management Robust processes adoption, Creation of the Project Based Organization (to support projects in a functional organization), Launch of products, Use of Project Management among Marketing and sales forces of organizations, Scheduling tools selection and rollout, Launch of products/services, Establishing Estimation practices, Pre-sales Checklists to ensure clarity of scope during project acquisition, RFP and Proposal practices, Establishment of Business Analysis Practices, BA Roles with Career Paths creation, Organizational Templates, and even hiring Project Managers, Product Managers, Business Analysts and Portfolio Managers on behalf of organizations.

Engagements and consulting done in the realm of Interpersonal Skills are around Skill Mapping vs GAP analysis for leadership, Assessment on communication, Leadership aspects, Negotiation skills, Virtual Team building skills, building Resilience, dealing with Toxicity, advanced Stakeholder Management, Emotional Intelligence, enabling Transition and Transformation (organizational wide or team), Critical Communications, Design Thinking, Leading without Authority and Dealing with Difficult Situations.

Maneesh is an author of 4 management books so far and one of them, on PMP Certification, was one of the top sellers with among highest ratings on Amazon.

Having visited 72 countries, Maneesh has a very strong command over “Global Etiquettes” and several companies have used this to their advantage for establishing “Best Practices” for their Global cross-cultural teams to ensure the teams work together with least amount of confusions and conflicts as possible. This also allows Maneesh to mix his passion of travelling and sampling different kinds of food and cultures while consulting and training in different parts of the world.

Maneesh loves to do wood-carving using traditional tools and is now getting requests by hotels and corporates for lobby and centerpieces. Maneesh is also an avid nature photographer. Maneesh has been a beer expert and is fondly called “Beer Baba” and he uses this pseudo-name to write a comprehensive series of books on beer.

A novel on travel is under creation and the latest PMP Book is about to get published.

At any given point of time, Maneesh, mentors 25 to 30 individuals for long duration to help with their careers in the world of Program and Project Management.