About Us

Dr Keith O’Shea has a wide and varied background in program and project management, from an early beginning in the construction field and in later years, in business change and technology projects. Dr O’Shea obtained a Master of Project Management from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia and completed his PhD ‘An Examination of the Theory and Practice of Project Management Knowledge and its Transferability in Western Australia’ at Curtin University, Western Australia. Dr O’Shea is a past National Director of the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM), holds Certified Practicing Project Director status and is a senior assessor of project management competencies for the institute, he also holds PMP status with the Project Management Institute (USA), is a qualified PRINCE2 Practitioner and the author of ‘Project Managers: what do they really do and need to know?’ ISBN: 978-3-639-20304-2.

Dr O’Shea is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a regular contributor and lecturer at Curtin University and Edith Cowan University (ECU) in their Master of Project Management programs and a member of the ECU School of Management Consultative Committee.

O’Shea, K 2009, Project Managers: what do they really do and need to know? ISBN: 978-3-639-20304-2

Keith’s Publications

O’Shea, K 2009, Project Managers: what do they really do and need to know?
ISBN: 978-3-639-20304-2

O'Shea, K. 2010. Is Your Project Management Supporting Your Strategies?
Australia’s Best, Building, Construction and Mining: 56-57.

Vertical Learning and Horizontal Transfer: Maximizing Knowledge Applications of Project Managers
Management Development Journal of Singapore, vol.16, No. 1, 2008

Ethical.pdf - O’Shea, K ‘An ethical dilemma’ Australian Project Manager, vol. 22, No 1, 2002
PM Move Freely.pdf - O’Shea, K ‘Can Project Managers Transfer Between Different Industries and Operate Effectively?’
Australian Project Manager, vol. 19, No 2, 1999

Keith’s Presentations

Project Quality & Cost Management
Australian Centre for Natural Gas Management
Oct 5, 2011 Australian China Gas Program -The Management Imperative

The Institute of Internal Auditors (Australia)
Master Class - Project Auditing - 23 September 2011, Hotel Novotel Langley, Perth, Western Australia

The Essence of Project Management, Project Management: The Art of Getting Things Done
AIPM (WA) Conference, Belmont Race Course, Belmont, Western Australia, 6 April, 2011.

Project Governance, Chartered Secretaries Australia
4 March, 2011, Perth Western Australia (Reference)

Compliance Frameworks, Chartered Secretaries Australia
24 August, Perth, 2010, Western Australia (Reference)

Meeting Compliance Requirements, Chartered Secretaries Australia
14 May, Perth, 2010, Western Australia

Project Governance, Chartered Secretaries Australia
4 May, 2010, Perth Western Australia (Reference)

Project Management Education: Have we got it right?, Australian Institute of Project Management,
National Conference, Adelaide, 12 -15 October, 2009

Project Finance, Business Forum 2009, Chartered Accountants
Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre,13 May, 2009.

Acceptance and Application of Project Management Knowledge, Australian Institute of Project Management,
National Conference, Canberra, 12 - 15 October, 2008.

Vertical Learning and Horizontal Transfer; Maximising Knowledge applications of Project Managers
2008 Hawaii International Conference on Business, 22 May - 25 May, 2008.

Linking Strategy and Project Management Workshop, 12 March, 2008, Perth, Western Australia.

Realising Strategy through Project Management, 2 Day Workshop – Project Management Institute (PMI)
Annual Convention, PMed, Perth, Western Australia, November, 2007

Project Management: Facing the Challenge - CPA Congress, Perth Western Australia,  May, 2007

Project Governance Presentation - ICT WA 2006 Conference, Perth, Western Australia

Project Scope Management, I Day Workshop – Project Management Institute (PMI)
Annual Convention, PMEd, Perth, Western Australia, November, 2006