Dhanu Kothari is an enthusiastic and a passionate motivational speaker with extensive breadth and depth of Project Management experience backed by 30 years of service in IT with HP, DEC, Honeywell, Nortel, Scotiabank, Univac and the Norwegian Computing Center. His speeches, presentations and workshops are consistently rated as "Excellent" and "Outstanding". Dhanu was recently named as a "PM Ambassador" by PMForum (www.pmforum.org) for his contribution to Project Management and availability as a speaker for PM events worldwide.

He is president of D2i Consulting, a firm specializing in delivery and consulting including methodology, process, governance, audits, coaching and training. Dhanu holds a B.Sc. in Mech. Eng. from Pune, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Production Eng. from the Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

Dhanu is a past President of the Project Management Institute (PMI), Southern Ontario Chapter, Canada, and the Rotary Club of Newmarket. Dhanu has also authored two books on Project Management titled, "Rainbows & Ratholes: Best Practices for Managing Successful Projects" and "From Ratholes to Rainbows: Managing Project Recovery".

Presentations and Workshops Delivered
Failure is Not an Option: Managing Project Recovery
Getting Work Done: The Human Side of Project Management
Show'N Tell: The Professional Project Manager's Toolkit
Rainbows & Ratholes: Learning from Best Practices
Learning from the Lessons Learned: The STEALTH Technique
It won't Happen if You Can't Communicate
Managing & Motivating Successful Teams
Project Management – The Consultative Approach
PMBOK & BABOK: An Integrated View of Project Mgt. & Bus. Analysis
Make It Visible – The Toyota Way for Project Management

Client Organizations (Webinars, Speeches, Papers and Publications)
NASA Project Management Chalenge Conference Feb.2009
PMI-ISSIG and PMI-IT&T SIG - Delivered 1 hour Webinars
PMI-SOC Chapter (workshop, 200+ attendees, Project Recovery)
ICE/CIPS Technology Conference (workshop, Team Building)
PMI Chapters – Dinner Speaker at Lakeshore, Durham, CTT, SWO, Peterborough, CIPS-ITSIG
Presentation for IEEE and ASQC Chapters, ProjectWorld Toronto
Guest Editor – CIPS Special Issue on Project Management
PMI Symposiums – Papers at Long Beach, San Diego, Pittsburgh
Industry conferences – Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto
Published articles - PMI-ISSIG Review, Project Times, Automation and Control, Office Automation