Beth Ouellette, PMI Fellow and Disciplined Agile Coach of Ouellette Group, works with global teams to implement value-added approaches to Portfolio, Program and Project Management best practices. Through a blend of business management, technology skills, and Disciplined Agile, she successfully enables executive teams with organizational strategy, alignment of programs to that strategy, and outlining organizational change management. Whether the methodology is traditional, agile or hybrid, the best approach and practices which fit the organizational needs will be discovered, outlined, and implemented for the best Way of Working.

She has hands-on experience in many industries: Banking, Finance, Insurance, Retail, Utility, Telecom, Manufacturing, small business, Academia, US Government Agencies, and the entertainment/luxury industry. In addition to PMO establishment and management for enterprise change, data strategy, and multiple IT and business functions, a variety of custom-tailored training programs have been delivered internationally. Some offerings include: Emotional Intelligence for Leadership Success, Negotiating through Change, Data Management, Data Strategy, Data Modeling, Strength-based Teams, Team Communications, MBTI, Establishing a PMO for Strategic Success, and Certification Prep Training. She partners to deliver DMM Assessments, Data Management Strategies, providing a “reality check” of the organization’s current state and then creates a strategic and tactic plan to bridge to the exec strategy and guide the organization to its desired state. She continues consulting and training with organizations on OCM, Agile Adoption, Requirements Management, Program Management, and Project Management.

Her presentations and writings are global and varied. She presented since 2009 at PMI’s Leadership Institute Meeting, PMI National Congress, PMI Chapter Events, multiple Project Zone conferences, Program Management Forum, PMINJ Seminar@Sea, Delivering Project Excellence, CIO Forum, Enterprise Application Strategy Conference, IT World Congress, Women in Technology, and Women in Computing. She has been published in Brazil, Canada, India and USA.

Beth is an active volunteer: Steering committee member for the Product Architecture, Disciplined Agile Advisor from 2019-2022; with PMI since 2006 she has contributed to the PM Community globally. She received the prestigious PMI Fellow in October 2018. She also received the “Component Leadership” of the Year Award in 2010 for work with the PMINYC chapter and the “Distinguished Contributor Award of the Year” in 2009 for the Content Integration Analyst work on the PMI Standards Teams. She was a co-author of the first Portfolio Management Standard and on the core team of the first Program Management Standard. She has served on the DAMA NYC Board of Directors in varying capacities since 1999.

Beth holds a Finance MBA from NYU’s Stern School, a BA in Education from Eastern Michigan University, and an AA in Computer Programming from Greenville Technical College. Her professional certifications include: PMPO. PgMP, PBA, CDA, DASSM, CDAI, CDAC. She’s the 36th person to achieve the Disciplined Agile Coach DAC) designation and the only DAC and PMI Fellow in the world.

She is an adjunct professor at the CUNY Graduate Program and School of Professional Studies where she created the Project Management Certificate Program. This multi-course program was approved by the NY State DoE in 2008 and is an ongoing program for the CUNY SPS and Graduate Center Programs educating over 1500 students to date.