Vijay K. Verma is an interna-tionally renowned speaker and author. He wrote a three- volume series on the Human Aspects of Project Management published by the Project Man-agement Institute (PMI) - Organizing Projects for Success, Human Resource Skills for the ProjectManager, and Managing the Project Team - and a fourth book, The Art of Positive Politics: A Key to De-livering Successful Projects, published in June 2018 by Multi-Media Publications Inc. Vijay received the 2009 PMI Fellow Award (one of the highest and most prestigious awards presented by PMI), the 1999 PMI David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award (for his book Managing the Project Team), andthe 1999 PMI Distinguished Contribution Award for sustained and significant contributions to the project management profession.Vijay has given many keynote presentations at various conferences. He has authored and presented many papers at national and international confer-ences on the Human Aspects of Project Management and Managing Cross--Cultural Teams. He has presented several workshops on project management in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, South Africa, China, and India with participants from various industries. More than four thousand profes-sionals working in project management have attended his presentations to enhance their skills andconfidence in managing projects effectively.Mr. Verma worked for forty years at TRIUMF (TRI University Meson Facility), Canada National Research Laboratory. Here, he provided project man-agement services for projects varying in size, complexity, and diversity. Mr. Verma served as president of the West Coast BC Chapter (1988-1989). He is a professional engineer with an MSc in Electri-cal Engineering from DalTech, Halifax, and an MBA from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He lives in Vancouver with his wife, Shiksha, enjoying life with seven grandchildren.
