Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez

• The world’s leading champion of Project Management and Strategy Implementation.
• Author of the bestselling ‘The Focused Organisation’.
• Expert in program management for success.
• Voted a 2018 Thinker of the Month by Thinkers 50.
• Expert in strategic planning and execution.
• Creator of concepts such as the Hierarchy of Purpose featured by The Harvard Business Review.
• His work advises senior leaders on prioritizing and implementing strategic initiatives and leading transformational change.

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is regarded as the world’s leading champion of Project Management and Strategy Implementation. He believes that projects are the language of preference as far as both your personal and business environment is concerned. The global speaker’s expertise has seen him at the forefront of major financial change. The multilingual (five languages) Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez was born in Madrid, Spain, educated in Germany, Mexico, Italy, and the USA, has an MBA from London Business School, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Strategy.

The creator of such concepts as the Hierarchy of Purpose, or the Project Manifesto, he argues that projects are the lingua franca of both the business and personal worlds, from the C-suite to managing your career and relationships. He is currently the Director of the Program Management Office at GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines and Chairman of the Project Management Institute.

Antonio’s previous work history had him work as Head of Transversal Portfolio Management at BNP Paribas Fortis for the Executive Board. His role saw him develop and implement a company-wide project selection and prioritization process. He was also head of Post-Merger Integration at Fortis Bank, leading the largest takeover in financial service history, i.e. the acquisition of ABN AMRO. Antonio also did a 10-year stint at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he became the global lead practitioner for project management.

Accomplishments
• Author of the best-selling book ‘The Focused Organization.’ “Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook” (HBR 2021)  and HBR magazine’s featured article “The Project Economy Has Arrived” (Nov 2021)  Visiting professors at leading business schools such as Duke CE, Instituto de Empresa, Solvay Business School, Vlerick, and Skolkovo.
• 2016 Thinker the Month, awarded by the prestigious Thinkers 50, an organization that identifies the most influential management thinkers in the world. which argues that Projects are the lingua franca of the business and personal worlds from the C-suite to managing your careers.

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez – Speaker

A much sought-after global speaker, Antonio has, over the last fifteen years, presented at over 160 conferences around the world. Amongst his successes, he includes the European Business Summit, Strategy Leaders Forum, Gartner Summit, TEDx, and the EU Cohesion Policy Conference with EU President Donald Tusk. He is part of Marshall Goldsmith 100 coaches.

Speaking Topics

• Advising senior leaders on how to lead transformational change
• Prioritizing and implementing strategic initiatives
• Building high-performance teams
• How to become a leading organization working across geographical and cultural boundaries
• The essential elements needed to create a culture that strives for execution
• Excellence and collaboration