Maneesh Vijaya

Chief Consultant, Mentor, Coach and Trainer on Strategy,

Portfolio, Program and Project Management with 25+yr
Experience
Founder of a Global REP of PMI, USA
Founder of a PMP Certification Publication that has received
rave reviews and circulation.
Founder of the exams simulation site PM audio sites.
Founder and CEO of an IT organization dedicated to Project and Productivity
tools and software development and installation.

Trained over 30,000 professionals from almost every domain and industry, on
Strategy, Program, Portfolio and Project Management including project
management tools and techniques across 16 countries spread over 3 continents
using traditional as well as virtual modes of training.

Provides 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 and Defense establishments.

Usually consult on Organizational Structure, Organizational Changes, Project

Management Office Set Up (PMO), 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 execution, RFP scanning
practices, Establishment of Business Analysis Practices, Template creation for
organizations, and even hiring project managers, product managers, business
analysts and portfolio managers.

Maneesh has participated in Black Belt and Green Belt Six Sigma initiatives in
large IT organizations, implemented CMM and CMMI (lead assessor),
participated in complete Work-Flow reengineering of ME of Indian Army (largest
administration wing in the world) and implemented PMO in various large and
global organizations. Maneesh has been lately involved in “Calculation of
Productivity” and “Productivity Benchmarking” in various countries.

Maneesh is also working on a model for Virtual Team Leadership concepts and is
a pioneer on the topic in India.

Maneesh delivers sessions (customized and standard) for every single subject on
Project Management, Strategy and Portfolio Management, Program
Management, Leadership Aspects, Business Analysis, Agile Suites, Global
Etiquettes and Cross Cultural Work Environments.

Having visited over 59 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 teams to ensure the teams work
together with least amount of confusions and conflicts as possible.

From Hobbies point of view Maneesh relaxes by going on long mountainous treks
(usually accompanied by his daughter), wild life photography, birding, visiting
different places and sights in India as well as other countries, Wood carving and
tasting and rating “Beers”.

Maneesh loves to write too and apart from highly successful PMP Books, blogs
and vlogs, he is also dabbling fiction writing as well.