LuAnn Piccard, PMP
Board of Directors
PMI
LuAnn Piccard, PMP, associate professor and chair, Master of Science Project Management Department at University of Alaska Anchorage, is passionate about developing next-generation project management leaders and professionals seeking to enhance and expand career opportunities through professional development and higher education. Students and graduates appreciate and benefit from the depth, relevance and breadth of LuAnn’s seasoned executive experience, transforming the learning environment into rigorous, positive, collaborative and applied experience.
In addition to academia, LuAnn has more than 20 years in technology-sector project and portfolio management, including 10 years as a senior executive for Hewlett Packard, Agilent Technologies and Advanced Energy Industries, where she led complex, profitable, and cross-functional businesses serving customers worldwide. She has also traveled extensively and lived internationally. She credits professional success to collaboration with diverse, engaged, customer-centric program and project leaders globally.
LuAnn, a proud PMI and PMI Alaska Chapter member, volunteer, and PMP® credential holder since 2007, served as director and chair for the PMI Global Accreditation Center for Project Management Education Programs, responsible for project management academic program accreditation and quality assurance worldwide.
Inspired by community engagement, LuAnn is well-versed in the balanced strategic and fiduciary responsibilities of board governance, partnered with executive and operational leadership, and has served as volunteer director for 11 different nonprofit boards including 10 years as an officer and director for Habitat for Humanity of Anchorage.
LuAnn is distinguished by an ability to articulate an envisioned future, identify stakeholder-centric opportunities made real by engaging and collaborating with people, fostering a bias to action, and crafting foundational, adaptable management processes. She strives to create a culture of continuous learning that emphasizes agility, innovation and accountability. Her approach is marked by contagious enthusiasm, passionate belief in people and possibilities, and inspiring new ways of thinking, with courage to embrace challenges.
LuAnn holds bachelor’s of science and master’s of science in in engineering and product design from Stanford University and is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
