Hal is a partner with Greg Howell in the consulting company Lean Project Consulting, Inc. He also operates a coaching practice as G2G Assocs., LLC, and is having some fun with Michael Port as one of The Project Guys. Through these endeavors he is delivering services to a variety of industries and situations: defense, power generation, construction, fabrication, entrepreneurs, micro businesses, solopreneurs, and other coaches.

Hal studied economics and operations research at Lowell Tech, the former UMass Engineering School. He went on to get an MBA from Boston University in operations management. Hal's preoccupation with operations effectiveness finally paid off when he learned about workflow, Fernando Flores' linguistic-action reinterpretation of work.

Hal is currently placing his attention on project leadership. By bringing together the work of Flores, Goldratt, and Ohno/Shingo with an emphasis on leadership he is setting out to bring about a transformation in how projects are delivered. Project management, one of the most-cited career positions, is failing to produce the desired business results. Projects are routinely over budget, late, and fail in often significant ways to satisfy the customer and the project participants. While many people recognize and suffer with the failings of our current practices the bulk of today's improving efforts are spent on doing a better job applying the same old techniques. In conjunction with the Lean Construction Institute, Hal has set out to change that.