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Paul Glen Profile
Paul Glen is an award-winning author, management
columnist and professional speaker.
He is the author of "Leading Geeks: How to Lead and Manage People
Who Deliver Technology" (Jossey-Bass Pfeiffer, 2003,
Warren Bennis
Signature Series) and "Healing Client Relationships: A Professional's
Guide to Managing Client Conflict" (Professional Service Publishing,
2001). "Leading Geeks" has won several book awards including the
2003 Financial Times Germany International Book Prize naming it the best
new book published worldwide on the subject of leadership.
He is also writes a monthly management column
for Computerworld.
In 1999, he founded C2 Consulting to help advance the management
and leadership of information technology (IT) organizations and projects.
Mr. Glen received his MBA from the J. L.
Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University with
majors in marketing, organizational behavior, and strategy. He received a
BA from Cornell University with majors in computer science and
mathematics.
Mr. Glen has taught as a part-time
faculty member in the MBA programs at the University of Southern
California and Loyola Marymount University. AT USC he developed and taught
an e-Business Strategy course. At Loyola he taught a second year MBA
course that he authored entitled “Marketing of High Technology Products
and Services.”
Mr. Glen has more than a fifteen years
experience delivering and managing IT related products and services. For
four years, he was western regional manager for SEI Information
Technology, a national IT consultancy. In that role he had full profit and
loss responsibility for a $13 million consulting practice including
supervision of sales, service delivery, recruiting, human resource
management and administration. Prior to serving as the western regional
manager, he served as regional manager for SEI’s Oak Brook region in the
Chicago area.
Mr. Glen has served in many roles
including: project manager, product manager, account manager, and
programmer. He has been involved in dozens of software development and
deployment projects. He has led two startup product teams, launching both
hardware and software products to the quick service restaurant industry.
Mr. Glen is one of three people worldwide
outside of Microsoft to be certified as a master trainer for delivering and adapting Microsoft’s project
management curriculum, the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF). He has
also consulted with clients on the implementation of MSF.
Mr. Glen is a past president of the
Southern California chapter of the Institute
of Management Consultants. He has received the Institute's
Certified Management Consultant designation and
subscribes to the Institute's Code of Ethics.
He is also a Professional
Member of the National Speakers Association meeting the stringent
qualifications for membership and subscribes to the
NSA Code of Ethics.
A self-proclaimed geek, during his
off-hours, he studies writing, photography, and improvisational comedy.
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