Tony Kenck · practitioner, teacher, author
A strong project can still be the wrong project.
A strong project can still be the wrong project for your organization at that time and with your constraints and aspirations. Tony helps teams compare coherent portfolio choices, understand what each decision displaces, and connect leadership goals with practical action.
More than two decades developing and applying planning and portfolio tools, standards, and training in complex organizations.
Proof before process
A practitioner who built, taught, and wrote the book.
Tony began as an earth scientist and moved through exploration risk, economic analysis, planning, business development, decision quality, and portfolio management. He led the development of tools and standards used for more than two decades, managed Planning and Portfolio in Corporate Business Development, and trained hundreds of practitioners.
Built inside operating organizations
Tony developed teaching material and trained hundreds of people in portfolio analysis and financial and economic decision metrics. His experience includes corporate planning, exploration, research and development, environmental remediation, acquisitions and divestitures, and carbon reduction.
See Tony's working approachWhat would help now?
Learn it. Build it. Or work through it with Tony.
Start with what your organization needs now. The methods follow the decision, not the other way around.
Build capability that stays.
Tony provides workshops, coaching, and advice for the portfolio decisions your team actually faces.
Shared language · repeatable standards · internal confidenceExplore classes and trainingDesign the process around the decision.
Tony helps frame the implementation decision, tests the current workflow, and pilots the simplest useful portfolio process given the objectives.
Decision frame · fit-for-purpose tools · durable governanceSee tools and processChallenge a live portfolio choice.
Tony tests the alternatives, data, trade-offs, and leadership story while the final decision stays with your team.
Clear alternatives · visible trade-offs · defensible recommendationBring Tony a decision
The practical reference
A decision operating system for high-stakes allocations.
Move from reactive project management to proactive portfolio governance. Use the book as a modular reference, not a cover-to-cover assignment.
- Decision frameClarify the decision parameters and guardrails
- Fit-for-purpose methodsUse the analysis the decision needs
- ImplementationTurn insight into action
Tony's practical insights
Practical thinking for your next decision
Make opportunity cost visible, plan without pretending to predict, and build the leadership, data, and tools to align your portfolio decisions.
All Business Decisions Are Portfolio Decisions
Why the enterprise context, and the opportunity cost of every yes, decides whether a good project is actually a good decision.
Read insightA Plan Is Not a Forecast
A plan is coordinated intended action. Treating it as a prediction is how organizations get surprised by a world that never signed it.
Read insight