Leslie Gowdish
Senior Managing Director
FTI Consulting

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Leslie Gowdish is a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Construction, Projects & Assets practice and is based in Florida. Mrs. Gowdish has more than 15 years of experience in project management, selecting, designing, developing and implementing systems focused on engineering and construction related capital and maintenance projects and portfolios. Her experience spans a variety of industries including energy, real estate, mining, oil & gas, water resources, and infrastructure as well as key disciplines such as project and portfolio management, project controls, and document management.

Ms. Gowdish is responsible for driving technology enablement in North America and has a proven track record with the consistent delivery of consulting engagements across industries ranging from local utilities companies to multinational Fortune 100 clients. Ms. Gowdish is a subject matter expert in a breadth of project portfolio management and project controls leading technologies, including Hexagon PPM EcoSys and Oracle Primavera with the ability to leverage best practice standards and processes across all aspects of the asset lifecycle.

In addition to consulting on processes and technology, Ms. Gowdish has enabled technology adoption by planning, leading, and executing Organizational Change Management and Training activities. This includes rolling out market leading project and portfolio management technologies to more than 800 cross-functional users and across multiple business across the globe.

Ms. Gowdish holds both a B.S. and Ph. D. in biological engineering from the University of Florida where she gave her dissertation on An Improved Green-Ampt Soil Infiltration and Redistribution Method and Its Application to 1-Dimensional and Quasi 3-Dimensional (Point Source) Flow Domains. She has also presented and written numerous papers for organizations such as the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, and the American Water Resources Association.