About Us

Built around senior practitioners with a hundred years of combined project work.

Petersen Training was founded in 2018 to put the lessons of three decades of real project work into the hands of the people who'll deliver the next ones. We train, simulate, consult, and credential for federal agencies, prime contractors, energy and defense majors, manufacturers, and universities.

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2018
Founded in South Weber, UT
100+
Years combined PM experience
PMI ATP
Premier Authorized Training Partner
VOSB
Veteran-Owned Small Business
Our story

From practitioners running projects to practitioners training project teams.

Long before Petersen Training existed, Denis Petersen and Dan Anderson were project and program managers in aerospace and automotive, learning how projects really succeed and really fail. Bill Bialcak was running missions in the U.S. Air Force.

They built Milestone Management Consultants together. After Milestone was acquired, Denis founded Petersen Training in 2018 to focus on what they kept coming back to: putting teams inside realistic project situations and walking them through the decisions, trade-offs, and recovery moves that separate the projects that land from the ones that do not.

Today we deliver workshops in person and online, custom-fit on-site to client teams, and run the full credentialing programs for the Project Management Institute and the National Association of Construction Professionals. The people who teach the workshops are the same people who run the consulting work. That's the whole point.

How we work

Four things we believe.

01

Practitioner first

Every facilitator is a senior PM or construction leader who has done the work. We do not subcontract teaching to people who have not run real projects.

02

Simulation over slides

Adults learn project management by making project decisions and living with the consequences. Our training camps are built around multi-day simulations and debriefs.

03

Customized for your team

On-site workshops are tailored to your industry, your processes, and your constraints. We adapt the exercises so the lessons land in your context.

04

Veteran-owned discipline

Two of our three leaders are military veterans. Discipline, mission focus, and respect for the people we train shape everything we deliver.

Leadership

The people you will work with directly.

The team you meet at proposal is the team that delivers the work.

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Dr. Denis R. Petersen

Founder & President

Denis founded Petersen Training LLC in 2018 to build bridges between people, partners, and processes. He has almost 30 years of experience providing training, consulting, and e-learning development for clients. A U.S. Army veteran, the owner of multiple businesses, a published author, and a guest lecturer at four universities.

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Bill Bialcak

Partner

Bill served a distinguished career in the U.S. Air Force. Upon retirement, he joined Denis and Dan at Milestone Management as National Director of Sales and Student Success. He was later made a full Partner at Petersen Training, where he continues to guide and support both military and civilian students.

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Dan Anderson

Partner

Dan worked for many years as a project and program manager in the aerospace and automotive industries. He has almost 40 years of experience as a practitioner and trainer. He helped Denis build Milestone Management Consultants, and after the successful sale of that company, joined Denis as a full Partner at Petersen Training.

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Milestones

Three decades, in summary.

  1. 1990s–2010s

    Three decades of practice

    Denis, Bill, and Dan accumulate a combined century of project management, leadership, and instructional experience across aerospace, automotive, defense, and higher ed.

  2. 2010s

    Milestone Management Consultants

    Denis builds and runs Milestone Management Consultants. Dan joins as a partner. Bill comes on board after retiring from the U.S. Air Force as National Director of Sales and Student Success.

  3. 2018

    Petersen Training LLC founded

    After Milestone Management is acquired, Denis founds Petersen Training in South Weber, Utah, to focus on project management training, simulation, and consulting.

  4. Today

    Authorized partner across federal, energy, defense, and academia

    PMI ATP Premier. NACP authorized provider. Veteran-Owned Small Business. Trusted by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, VA, Dominion Energy, Zoox, Harman, and partner universities.

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Bring the team to your project.

Public dates, custom on-site delivery, or full credentialing programs. Tell us what your team needs.

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