Dr. Angela Lecomber is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Project Management and a Certified Practising Project Director (CPPD). She has over forty years experience working in a wide range of sectors including Information Technology (infrastructure and applications development), Telecommunication, Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, Government, Education and Not-for-Profit.
Angela holds a suite of qualifications and certifications in project management including the Advanced Diploma of Project Management, Agile Project and Programme Management and PRINCE2. She subsequently obtained her doctorate (PhD) from RMIT University in 2017 researching the use and value of PRINCE2 in practice. She has created her own unique courses including Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) (under the auspices of PeopleCert) to support program managers better understand what is required in transformation.
Her clients have been ASX listed companies, Federal Government, Victorian Government, Local Government Councils in both Victoria (Australia) and Sunderland (United Kingdom), the Catholic Church in Australia and a range of private companies operating in Australia, UK, Singapore and Malaysia.
Her repertoire is diverse: delivering ‘cutting edge’ solutions – the first user access portal in Australia for the Department of Human Services; use of ICT for environmental citizenship in school children (linking UK and Australian schools, 1996); launching the Earth Charter in Melbourne (2001); through to devising an innovative approach to educate Catholics in their response to unplanned pregnancy, coining the term for the initiative "Walking with Love" (2008).
Angela enjoys educating, training and supporting others to negotiate the challenges of our times. She is an experienced teacher in secondary science education and a trainer in adult education in the field of project management. She has published a range of articles and continues to write on a range of areas.
Angela could be described as a Social Entrepreneur and Writer.
How does ‘Seeing Differently’ happen?
This describes a profound shift in the way we see things which occurs when we first transform ourselves. Let us take advantage of this time of apparent powerlessness in the face of what we encounter in our workplace, our families, and in the world to contemplate, read, form ourselves, strengthen family relationships, making virtue out of necessity as did countless others who have done before us.
Through changing ourselves can we each of us become like the pilot boats who steer big ships and containers through the ‘rip’ of life i.e. taking control of the steering for a while to pilot an organisation's project, program or portfolio to its strategic goals.