Dilash Krishnapillai is a leading project management expert who works with private and public sector organizations to build Project Management Offices (PMO) and project delivery models that will effectively transform the organizational mission with tangible results. Krishnapillai believes organizations need nimble processes that can quickly adapt to change to thrive and innovate in the contemporary information age. He is currently employed as the director for delivery services at a multi-national organization in the financial industry, where he has accountability for the delivery of all strategic, client-driven, and regulatory projects. He is also a professor and faculty member at Humber College, teaching a postgraduate project management program for the past ten years. He assists organizations in the development of project management course material and has developed a number of courses for the program including the momentous Strategic Portfolio Management and IT Project Management streams.

Krishnapillai’s research explores the factors that can facilitate agility in organizations and establishes the interplay between these factors. The outcome of this study would enable senior management in organizations to adopt strategies that can facilitate agility in organizations and respond promptly to changes in the internal and external ecosystems.

Krishnapillai graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Computer Engineering degree from University of Ottawa. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario (P.Eng.), a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Program Management Professional (PgMP) and a Certified Management Consultant (CMC). He holds a Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) specializing in adult education from Brock University and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Executive Management from Royal Roads University (2012). Krishnapillai is also a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and SAFe Program Consultant (SPC®).