JoAnn Becker MS, MBA, PMP 
Ms. Becker's business and technology career spans over 25 years in consulting, education, financial services, government, health care, and manufacturing. Her expertise in program/project management and stakeholder management has produced bottom-line results through leading organizational change. She has transformed organizations and redesigned processes, led organizational and cultural change, and built partnership alliances of various forms. She led a consortium of competitors to launch an electronic business, and has performed various roles in consulting including the program management office (PMO). Ms. Becker excels at complex problem solving during the launch of new organizational initiatives by using a comprehensive 360 degree approach to stakeholder management, key success indicators, and expectation and risk management.

She also teaches project management, consulting skills, empowered work teams and organizational behavior for clients and the UIC graduate business and nursing schools. She has published the article 7 Executive Myths of Project Management and is working on the book Stakeholder Analysis and Management for Project Success. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, an MS in Judicial Administration from the University of Denver College of Law, and a BS with Honors from the University of Wisconsin with majors in Mathematics and Education.