Bob Maksimchuk is the founder and Principal Consultant of Project Pragmatics, LLC.  He focuses on bringing leadership and professional development, software development best practices, and process improvement to companies, large and small, in many industries.  He is a successful consultant and certified coach who thrives on finding creative solutions to complex business and systems problems by leveraging his penetrating analytical skills, his broad experience in many industries and his unique, practical approach to delivering pragmatics solutions.

What makes Bob’s services unique?

He is an innovative problem solver: “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”   - Albert Einstein

Such creativity is often sparked from different and sometimes orthogonal perspectives to the problem at hand.   Unlike most consultants, Bob is a lifelong multi-discipline learner in diverse areas such as organizational change management, psychology, technology, leadership and human behavior, brain neuroscience, adult learning, team building, quantum physics, communications and leadership.  He brings to bear the lessons learned as an engineer solving difficult problems in high-tech industries.  All this combined with his broad consulting experience across many industries, working with small companies to the Fortune 10, enables Bob to create, adapt and apply concepts and solutions from various fields to clarify and resolve client’s problems.

He is an accomplished communicator - Even the best ideas can't be used effectively if they can't be communicated effectively.

As a Certified Leadership Coach, Speaker, and a Dale Carnegie graduate and four-time award winner, Bob understands the importance of effective communication, particularly in complex and often abstract business challenges.    

As an external spokesperson and subject matter expert for IBM, Bob traveled worldwide as a featured speaker in numerous technology conferences and running workshops and seminars.  Bob also served as corporate spokesperson for Unisys, implementing a communications program that advanced the visibility and position of Unisys in the marketplace.  He regularly briefed industry analysts, press, clients, and strategic partners.  In addition, he served as liaison to numerous government agencies on large programs.

He is Practical, Pragmatic, and People-Centric: “Theory is good … but only in theory.”   - Bob Maksimchuk

Many processes and best practices may be beneficial, but of what use are they if your team doesn’t fully understand how they should be properly applied?  What about the pitfalls that come along with unintentionally misapplying such techniques?  Do you have the time and the resources to make those mistakes or would it be better to learn from those that have walked that path before you? 

Any solutions to your business challenges must be made practical; they must be made pragmatic (not just theoretical), and they must be made people-centric, tailored to your specific team’s way of working.  These are the three key principles that are woven into the work Bob does with his clients.

See what the people Bob has worked with say in the Recommendations page.

Bottom Line:  Bob is committed to your success and has the unique mix of creativity, experience, knowledge and “soft skills” to deliver real value to your organization.

·        Coached and mentored hundreds of corporate professionals, live and virtually, in the areas of leadership, communication, team building, relationships, behavioral patterns, prioritizing and achieving goals, and other professional / personal development areas.