Bio
Elizabeth Harrin, MA, FAPM, MBCS is director of Otobos Consultants Ltd, a project communications consultancy specialising in copywriting for project management firms. She has over 20 years’ experience as a project and program manager, having spent eight years in financial services (including two based in Paris, France) and then over 12 years in healthcare.
Elizabeth is a PRINCE2, MSP and P3O Practitioner, and holds the ITIL Foundation certificate. She is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management and a member of PMI. She holds degrees from the University of York and Roehampton University.
Elizabeth has written 7 books about project management: Managing Multiple Projects, Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World (which was a finalist in the Management Book of the Year Awards 2014 and now in its second edition), Collaboration Tools for Project Managers, Communicating Change, Project Manager, Customer-Centric Project Management and Engaging Stakeholders on Projects: How to Harness People Power.
She’s particularly interested in stakeholder engagement and team communications and now offers support to mid-grade project managers looking to improve their skills through her mentoring group program, Project Management Rebels.
Elizabeth is the award-winning blogger behind Rebel’s Guide to Project Management, a specialist blog aimed at helping teams get work done. She is widely published on project management topics and has contributed to numerous websites and magazines.