Stephen Hartley is a leading practitioner, consultant, educator, researcher, author and coach in project management.
Drawing on 25 years’ cross-industry experience, and with numerous industry, vocational and academic qualifications, Stephen is renowned for his expertise, refreshing honesty, personal insight, and an easy and engaging writing style that readers—both students, instructors and clients—find appealing and sometimes even entertaining.
Stephen has been ‘doing’ project management for over 25 years, ‘training’ in project management for over twenty years and ‘writing’ about project management for over fifteen years, with seven books published since 2002. He writes with obvious passion, professional credibility and a genuine interest in the educational value embedded in learning, transfer and application.
He works with projects every day: as the CEO of an education and training company, as a project manager and consultant, as a postgraduate MBA university lecturer in project management at the University of the Sunshine Coast, and is enrolling as a PhD student investigating how project management capability is learned in higher education.
Outside of project management, Stephen spends time with his partner and adult children, his Yamaha FJR 1300 and his German Shepherd. Stephen has a passionate interest in building project management capability in developing countries, and was the first unsponsored volunteer to lecture at the Souphanouvong University (Luang Prabang, Laos) in project management, along with systems development, English and Excel. As a director on a number of not-for-profit boards, Stephen finds time to give back to the community by supporting local charities with fundraising and working with a number of secondary schools, where he acts as a business coach for business and economics classes. He also delivers a series of free workshops for school children of all ages to improve their confidence in developing and delivering classroom presentations.