MICHAEL SINGER DOBSON is an internationally known project management consultant, author, and lecturer. He’s the author of 20 books on various aspects of project management, office politics, organizational dynamics, and personal growth. A popular seminar leader and keynote speaker, Dobson brings a practical real-world background, good humor, and a dynamic personal style to make his topics come alive.

His book Enlightened Office Politics (with Deborah Dobson) was named one of Library Journal’s Top 100 Business Books for 2001.  His novels Fox on the Rhine and MacArthur’s War (both with Douglas Niles) were selections of the Military Book Club. His simulation game BATTLESYSTEM won the H. G. Wells Award.

Michael’s client list has included the U.S. Navy’s nuclear program, Calvin Klein Cosmetics, Union Carbide, NASA, GSA Public Building Service, and Australian State Rail. He recently authored the “Decision-Making” chapter for a NASA-sponsored textbook on systems engineering. He’s given well over a thousand seminars on three continents. Michael is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute.

He lives in the Washington, DC, suburbs with his wife and frequent co-author Deborah Singer Dobson, an organizational development executive, their son James, two Shelties and a tarantula - and the only Apollo spacesuit in private hands.

  • Administrative Offices of the US Courts
  • Alcom Power
  • Alix Partners
  • American Management Association
  • American Society for Quality
  • American University
  • Arthur Anderson
  • Australian State Rail
  • Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc.
  • Bechtel-Bettis Marine Propulsion
  • Biblical Archeology Society of Northern Virginia
  • Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church
  • BWX Technologies (subsidiary of Babcock & Wilcox)
  • Calvin Klein Cosmetics
  • Center for Systems Management
  • Charlotte Nature Museum
  • Dun & Bradstreet Business Education
  • FEMA
  • Fred Pryor Seminars
  • GENCON Game Fair
  • GP Putnam Sales Conference
  • Harcourt
  • Health Care Financing Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services
  • International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP)
  • International Planetarium Association
  • Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
  • Management Concepts
  • NASA
  • National Security Agency
  • North Carolina Writers Conference
  • Project Management Institute (various chapters and regional conferences, multiple times)
  • Random House Merchandise Sales Conference
  • Scientific Research Corporation
  • Sears (Corporate HQ)
  • SkillPath Seminars
  • Smithsonian Institution Associates Program
  • The Weather Channel
  • Trane
  • Union Carbide
  • University of Alaska/Kodiak
  • University of Newfoundland
  • University of North Carolina/Charlotte
  • University of Western Australia Center for Aborigine Studies
  • US Air Force Blue Flag, Hurlburt AFB
  • US Coast Guard
  • US National Archives
  • US Navy Reactors Program
  • US Postal Service Headquarters
  • World Science Fiction Convention