About Jim

James P. Lewis, Ph.D., CIC is an experienced project manag­er, who teaches seminars on the subject throughout the US, England, and the Far East. His solid, no-non­sense ap­proach is largely the result of the 15 years he spent in industry, working as an Electrical Engineer, engaged in the design and develop­ment of communication equip­ment. He held vari­ous posi­tions, includ­ing Project Manager, Product Engi­neer­ing Manager, and Chief Engi­neer, for Aerotron, Inc. and ITT Telecom­munica­tions, both of Raleigh, NC. He also was a Quality Manager for ITT Telecom, managing a depart­ment of 63 quality engi­neers, line inspectors, and test techni­cians.

While he was an engineering manager, he began working on a doctorate in organizational psychology, because of his conviction that a manager can only succeed by developing good interpersonal skills.

Since 1980, Dr. Lewis has trained over 40,000 supervi­sors and managers in Argentina, Canada, England, Germany, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States. He has written articles for Training and Devel­opment Journal, Apparel Industry Magazine, and Transportation and Distribution Magazine, and is the author of Project Plan­ning, Schedul­ing and Control, Fourth Edition, Mastering Project Management, The Project Manager's Desk Refer­ence, Third Edition, Working Together: The 12 Principles Employed by Boeing Commercial Aircraft to Manage Projects, Teams, and the Organization, Project Leadership, and The Project Manager’s Pocket Survival Guide, and co-author with Louis Wong of Accelerated Project Management, published by McGraw-Hill, and Fundamentals of Project Management, Third Edition; How To Build and Manage a Winning Project Team; and Team-Based Project Management, published by the American Manage­ment Association. He is co-author, with Bob Wysocki, of The World-Class Project Manager, published by Perseus in 2001. The first edition of Project Planning, Scheduling and Control has been published in a Spanish edition, and the AMACOM book Fundamentals of Project Management has been published in Portuguese and Latvian. Several of his books have also been published in Chinese, and Project Leadership has been translated into Spanish and Russian.

He has a B.S. in Electrical Engi­neering and a Ph.D. in Psychol­o­gy, both from NC State Univer­sity in Raleigh. He is president of The Lewis Institute, Inc., a training and consulting company specializing in project management, which he founded in 1981. He is a member of the Project Management Institute, and is also a certified practitioner of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument and a Certified Integral Coach®.^[1]