About / Consultant Profiles - Karen MacNeil

Karen MacNeil
macneil@procept.com

Karen MacNeil is a project management consultant and project manager with more than 20 years in project and line management.

She has several related consulting specialties:

• Designing and implementing project management offices including governance and portfolio planning, with attention paid to the resistance to change in an organization.
• “Professionalizing” project management in an organization by developing competency models for recruiting, selection, and development, and by developing career paths and training curricula.
• Applying business research methods to the assessment of programs to promote project manager capabilities within organizations to develop continuous methods for promoting and sustaining project manager capability growth
• Building and implementing a project management methodology
• Coaching and mentoring

She developed her skills at KPMG as Senior Manager - Project Services and Manager - Information Technology; at Fidelity Investments as Consultant – Project Management Office, and recently at a large Canadian financial institution as a Director, Business and Process Management and a Consultant, Project Management Centre of Excellence. Prior to those assignments, she had a business career in financial institutions.

With Procept and at the University of Toronto, Karen instructs in an Advanced Project Management course as part of the Masters of Engineering in Design and Manufacturing, instructs and facilitates about project management offices in the Advanced Certificate in PM, and in the Annual PM Alumni Conference.

Karen holds a degree in economics from Carleton University, a degree in classical studies from the University of Waterloo, and an MBA from Athabasca University specializing in project management. She also has a Masters Certificate in PM from York University, and the Advanced Certificate in PM from the University of Toronto, and she is designated by the Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional. Karen is a Senior Consultant with Procept Associates Ltd.