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Dr. Joel Carboni

Founder of GPM. Architect of the P5 Standard. The standards, methods, and credentials behind Sustainable Project Management® were built here.

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30+

years across project management, governance, and sustainability

1,000,000+

downloads of the P5 Standard, Version 1 through Version 4.0

standards, methods and guides authored

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Dr. Joel Carboni is the founder of GPM and the architect of the standards, methods, and credentials behind Sustainable Project Management®.

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Dr. Joel Carboni is the founder and president of GPM and the architect of the standards, methods, and credentials behind Sustainable Project Management®, delivered through the PMI-GPM joint venture. He created the P5 Standard, the Sustainability Competence Standard, the Sustainable Project Management® Practice Guide, the Project Sustainability Reporting Guide and the Guide to Responsible Project Sponsorship. For over 30 years, his work has moved the profession in a different direction. A Forbes Business Council member and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) contributor, he was shortlisted for the inaugural regenerative business award by Thinkers50 in 2025 for his book 'Becoming Regenerative'.

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Dr. Joel Carboni is the founder and president of GPM and the architect of the standards, methods, and credentials behind Sustainable Project Management^®, a GPM innovation delivered through the PMI-GPM joint venture and taught worldwide. He created the P5 Standard, the Sustainability Competence Standard, the Sustainable Project Management® Practice Guide, the Project Sustainability Reporting Guide, and the new Guide to Responsible Project Sponsorship, integrated into the PMI ecosystem through the Certified Sustainable Project Professional (CSPP™) certification.

For three decades, and worldwide, his work has focused on a single question: what does it take for sustainability commitments to survive contact with how projects actually get approved, funded, and delivered. His answer is governance-grade, threshold-based, and measurable. It is the basis for how thousands of project leaders now make decisions that hold up under scrutiny.

Dr. Carboni is a member of the Forbes Business Council, a contributor to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and a participant in UN SDG working groups. He received the IPMA Achievement Award for Integrating Sustainability in Project Management, and his book Becoming Regenerative was recognized by Thinkers50 for advancing regenerative practice in business. He serves as Global Ambassador for Sustainability at Thinkers360 and as a visiting professor at SKEMA Business School. His current work centers on regenerative project design and the governance architecture that makes it deliverable.

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