Lisa DiTullio
Boston
MA
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Lisa is the principal of Project Chalk Talk, a company dedicated to introducing project management as a business competency and enabling health care organizations to improve decision-making, instill accountability, and enhance communications. She has over 25 years’ experience in establishing PMO and Portfolio Management models. Lisa's experience spans healthcare delivery, payer, pharma, biotech, diagnostic and medical device arenas. Lisa is the author of several books. She is a regular contributor to industry blogs and various podcasts. She is a PMI® PMTraining™ instructor, a distance instructor for Prodevia Learning, and a contributor to ProjectBites. She is a recognized international speaker in her field and is known for her storytelling to impart messages that are impactful and practical.
As past VP, Portfolio & Program Management of Foundation Medicine, Lisa built the PMO from the ground up to ensure the ‘right’ projects were selected, and they were delivered successfully. As past director of the PMO at Boston-based Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Lisa was a core member of the turnaround team for an organization that went from being placed in state-supervised receivership in 1999 to being the “Number One Health Plan in America” in US News & World Report many years in a row.
Lisa is a past board member to the Cohasset Maritime Institute, the South Shore Chamber of Commerce and the AthenaPowerLink® Governing Body. She is the co-founder of Leadership in Action, a program designed to introduce high school students to career and leadership opportunities. In her free time, Lisa is a loyal dog-walker, avid runner, and sometimes-competitive ocean rower.




