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Dr. Ed Hoffman is the founder and CEO of Knowledge Strategies LLC, where he leads research, education, and consulting work in support of organizational performance. As faculty advisor and senior lecturer in Columbia University's Information and Knowledge Strategy (IKNS) program, he has helped shape the program's curriculum, student experience, and professional community, and now advises the Society of Knowledge Management. He also advises the Project Management Institute (PMI) on integrated systems for talent management, knowledge engagement, learning strategy, executive dialogue, and the future of work.

Ed retired from NASA as a senior executive after 33 years of service. He was appointed NASA's first Chief Knowledge Officer in 2011, with responsibility for agency-wide strategy, integration, governance, and deployment of knowledge services, and he also led the Federal Knowledge Management Community. Earlier, he founded and led NASA's Academy of Program/Project and Engineering Leadership (APPEL) for more than 20 years, building a world-recognized project leadership academy that was ranked the top project academy in the world in multiple global benchmarking surveys. After the Columbia Shuttle accident, he managed the development of NASA's Strategic Management and Governance Handbook, and in 2010 he received the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal.

A frequent speaker, workshop leader, author, and podcast host, Ed has worked with organizations including NASA, Amazon, Microsoft, Hitachi, Boeing, Citi, Salesforce, John Deere, and the UK Ministry of Defense. He has written numerous journal articles and co-authored multiple books. He is the co-author of The Smart Mission: NASA’s Lessons for Managing Knowledge, People and Projects (MIT Press, 2022), which received the Axiom Business Book Award for its insights into organizational intelligence and innovation. He co-authored Shared Voyage: Learning and Unlearning from Remarkable Projects (NASA, 2005) and Project Management Success Stories: Lessons of Project Leaders (Wiley, 2000). He has also held faculty roles at The George Washington University, Drexel University, the University of Technology Sydney, and SKEMA Business School. Ed holds a doctorate, an MA, and an MS from Columbia University in social and organizational psychology, and a BS in psychology from Brooklyn College. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York, a place that helped shape his lifelong interest in people, communities, and how meaningful work gets done.