Thinkers50 speaker Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is widely regarded as the world’s foremost expert in Strategy Implementation and Project Management. He is also the world’s leading expert in project management. Antonio has made project management a top priority for all CEOs in 2030. His ideas include the “Hierarchy of Purpose” described in the Harvard Business Review. Furthermore, he developed the concept of the “Project Economy,” which asserts that projects are the de facto language of the personal and business worlds.

Antonio received the “Ideas into Practice” award by Thinkers50 and even made it to the global gurus Top 30 list. He is one of 100 coaches of Marshall Goldsmith. The Project Management Institute (PMI) appointed him as its global chairman in 2016. Among his many accomplishments are co-founding the Strategy Implementation Institute and the Brightline Initiative.

Speaker Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez ‘s work involves coaching senior leaders on how to drive transformational change. He also teaches them how to give priority to strategic initiatives and implement them, put together great teams, become a learning organization, and collaborate across silos. These are all critical components of creating a culture that values excellence, execution, and collaboration.

Antonio wrote The Project Revolution, Lead Successful Projects, and The Focused Organization. Project managers and senior executives benefit from Antonio’s knowledge and experience in project management and strategy execution.  At present, he teaches at Instituto de Empresa, Duke CE, Solvay, Vlerick, Skolkovo, and Ecole des Ponts.

He is a sought-after speaker internationally. More than 220 conferences throughout the world have hosted Antonio’s presentations over the past 20 years, and he has consistently been rated as one of the top speakers in the world. He has spoken at various events such as TEDx, the European Business Summit, Gartner Summit, Strategy Leaders Forum, and the EU Cohesion Policy Conference alongside EU President Donald Tusk.

He works for GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines as the Director of the Program Management Office. Antonio used to be BNP Paribas Fortis’ Head of Project Portfolio. He previously led Fortis Bank’s largest-ever acquisition, ABN AMBRO. Antonio Nieto-Rodríguez also spent ten years working at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he rose to the position of global lead practitioner for change and project management.

Although Antonio was born in Spain, he studied in many different countries, making him fluent in five different languages. He has obtained a London Business School MBA and is currently looking to get a strategy implementation’s Ph.D.