About Leading Edge

Leading Edge Management, LLC offers consulting, training and mentoring in effective techniques for leadership and management in today's workplace.

Our Core Principles

The core principles of Leading Edge Management, and what we do, can be summarized in three words: create, energize and achieve.

Create.

The world of work is constantly changing. To accommodate change, we must make sense of it and adapt. We must create new products, relationships, and new ways of looking at the world. We must be creative. It is a key to success in the challenging environment of constant change: to continually create.

Energize.

When faced with daunting project and organizational challenges, it can be tempting for many people to become discouraged and get stuck - just when we need to be at our best. Another key to success is to discover and take advantage of the emotional energy inherent in us all. This energy can be readily accessed, and with it comes confidence to handle the challenges of work.

Achieve.

The ultimate measure of our efforts is what we accomplish. Our endeavors must deliver reliable results for ourselves, our organizations and our customers. Even more, we seek to surpass expectations, to achieve a deep sense of reward and pride for achieving something great.

 

About the Founder

Dr. B. Michael Aucoin, is the President of Leading Edge Management.

In consulting and training, Dr. Aucoin draws upon his extensive experience in management of diverse technology projects and excellence in service delivery. He offers insights in project management and engineering management to help individuals and companies succeed in the challenges of today's high velocity market place.

Participants in his training courses have recognized his outstanding training skills with comments such as: "Absolutely fantastic," "I've NEVER had so much fun in a workshop," and, "Dr. Mike was an excellent speaker, obviously knew the subject, and made the program entertaining as well as informative."

Dr. Aucoin has provided training for a number of corporate, institutional and professional audiences, including courses for IPS Associates and ESI International. Previously, he developed short courses in project management and engineering management that have been delivered to several professional and institutional audiences with outstanding evaluations. He has served as an instructor for several courses at Texas A&M University, including a graduate course in Total Quality Management.

Dr. Aucoin's expertise and experience with leading edge technology projects enables him to provide a rich training environment. He has worked for large and small technology companies, including the online portal, ProjectConnections.com. In addition to the position with Leading Edge Management, he is also President of Electrical Expert, Inc., a College Station, Texas based company that provides forensic engineering and expert witness consulting in electrical engineering.

Dr. Aucoin has experience in electric power, energy management, energy strategy, project management, engineering management, and e-business. Projects that he has worked on have been recognized with the R&D 100 Award from R&D Magazine and the Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award from the National Society of Professional Engineers. He is also a recipient of a Third Millennium Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers as well as an IEEE Working Group Award as Co-Editor of an electric power tutorial course.

Dr. Aucoin holds five patents and has earned the Project Management Professional Certification provided by the Project Management Institute. He is also a Registered Professional Engineer in Texas. He has been a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Engineering Management Society and also served as their Vice President of Education. He previously was a member of the Editorial Advisory Board and regular contributor for the Successful Project Management Newsletter.

Dr. Aucoin has a reputation for outstanding written and oral communication skills. He authored the chapter on "Total Quality Management" in The Handbook of Technology Management, (CRC Press, 1998), and he also authored the book, From Engineer to Manager: Mastering the Transition (Artech House Publishers, 2002). His second book, Right-Brained Project Management, was published in 2007 by Management Concepts, Inc. He has also a contibutor to the Engineering Management Reference Manual, to be published in 2008 by Professional Publications, Inc. Dr. Aucoin has also created the online course, Transition to Management, offered by IEEE Xplore.

Dr. Aucoin received a Bachelor of Science, Magna Cum Laude, in Engineering Science from the University of New Orleans in 1976. He received a Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1978, and a Doctor of Engineering from Texas A&M in 1982.