Paula K. Martin is CEO of MartinTate, a management training , consulting, and publishing company based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Paula K. Martin
Paula K. Martin, is the CEO of MARTINTATE, a management consulting and training company. She is the author of three books: The Project Management Memory Jogger, a step-by-step book on how to create a successful project; Leading Project Management into the 21st Century, a book for managers on how to create a project friendly environment; and The Buck Stops Here: Accountability and the Empowered Manager, a book on vertical management and the new accountability. Paula is also a columnist for PM Network, the magazine of the Project Management Institute, and a frequent presenter at project management conferences around the world.
Prior to becoming a management consultant and trainer, Paula was the director of American Cyanamids agrichemical new product development efforts in the U.S., steering hundreds of projects and project teams.
Joel Weinstein
Joel Weinstein is currently a tax, legal and business consultant, writer and musician based in Northwestern Connecticut. Before becoming a consultant, he was a member in good standing of the New York corporate world, serving, in chronological order, as the CFO of an optical dispensary management company, the director of tax compliance and senior corporate tax attorney for Coltec Industries (now BF Goodrich) and, before that, TWAs pension attorney.
During his years in the corporate world he was involved in numerous projects both as a team member and leader. More recently, he has served as a tax, financial and business consultant to both large and small companies on a host of projects that ranged from determining the best way to expand a startup business to designing a more efficient way of identifying and classifying manufacturing assets for property tax reporting purposes on behalf of Nabisco.
He has published numerous tax articles for the Journal of State Taxation and the Journal of Property Tax Management, and has written many short stories. He currently divides his time between consulting, working on a new novel and playing steel guitar in a swing band.