KEVIN AGUANNO

Kevin Aguanno

Kevin Aguanno, CSStS, CMC, CSPM (IPMA-B), PMP, Cert.APM, PMI-ACP, DAF, CSM, CSP, SDC, SMC, SPOC, FPMAC, FAPM

President Emeritus & Founding Director

With over 30 years of managing complex projects across multiple industries, Kevin Aguanno is known for his innovative approaches to solving common project management problems. He focuses on three project management specialty areas: agile project management, troubled project recovery, and project methodology consulting.

As a well-known keynote speaker, trainer, and executive coach in project management, Aguanno has taught thousands of people how to better manage complex projects and deliver greater business value. He is a frequent presenter at conferences and private corporate events where he delights audiences with practical advice peppered with fascinating stories from his own experiences in the trenches.

He has taught for nearly three decades at the university level, including the University of Toronto where he won the coveted SCS Excellence in Teaching Award.

Kevin Aguanno holds a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario, and a Master's in Project Management from the School of Business and Public Management at George Washington University.

He is a PMI-certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and his competency has been certified by IBM as a Certified Executive Project Manager and by the International Project Management Association (IPMA) as a Senior Project Manager (IPMA Level B). He is also certified by the Scrum Alliance as both a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Certified Scrum Professional (CSP). He is also certified by the Project Management Association of Canada as a Certified Agile Project Manager (Cert.APM), and holds both the PMI Agile-Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) designation and Disciplined Agile Foundations certificate from the Project Management Institute. Lastly, Aguanno holds the Certified Management Consultant (CMC) designation from the Canadian Association of Management Consultants (CMC-Canada). His skill in training is recognized by PMI who has awarded him the PMI ATP Instructor designation.

Kevin is an active member of the Project Management Institute (U.S.A.), the Association for Project Management (U.K.), the Project Management Association of Canada where he is a founding director and President Emeritus, the Agile Alliance, and the Scrum Alliance. He sits on the board of the Brilliant-Minded Women Foundation.

He is accredited by the International Project Management Association (founded in Switzerland) as a project management competency assessor for both individuals and organizations, and he has performed IPMA assessments for ASAPM in the U.S.A. and PMAC-AGPC in Canada, for both of which the IPMA awarded him the honorary designation of First Assessor.

In 2013, PMAC-AGPC formally recognized Aguanno with its highest honor by naming him a Fellow of the Project Management Association of Canada (FPMAC) and in 2015, the UK's Association for Project Management honoured Aguanno by naming him a Fellow (FAPM).

Kevin Aguanno is the author of over thirty books, audiobooks and DVDs, in addition to a number of articles published in magazines and journals worldwide.

In 2023, Aguanno was knighted as a Knight Commander in the Order of St. Stanislas and was awarded the order's Silver Star in recognition of all his charitable work around the world.