Luca
Costa

Luca Costa, Physics graduate, Executive MBA at Bologna Business School, certified Project Management Professional (PMP™) acts mainly as a consultant both as a freelancer and for some consulting companies based in the country. An adjunct lecturer at the School of Economics and Management of the University of Bologna, for Bologna Business School he is directing three Open and other custom programs on the topic of Project Management, in which he teaches Risk Management, PMP Certification and Change Management.
His main areas of interest are, in addition to Project and Program Management, Change Management, and in particular the measurement of Change Readiness of business environments, for which he has developed an original approach. He has also been a speaker at multiple international conferences on these topics. In the past he acted first as Project and Program Manager, then as Business Developer for multinational IT companies, developing PLM solutions, managing projects for configurators and advanced graphics for automotive companies, and organizing Academies in multicultural environments. These often multicultural and complex experiences were the main factors that sparked his interest in project management and change management. He is, finally, a volunteer for the Project Management Institute for which he has served as Branch Director and for which he has organized numerous conferences. He has personal interests in travel, photography, history, and the Boston Red Sox.