Russ has designed and conducted many public and in-house seminars on various aspects of project management over the past 35 years. In 1970 he developed and presented the first project management seminar program for Booz, Allen & Hamilton across the United States, and has presented a number of graduate and undergraduate courses at the Univeristy of California Los Angeles/UCLA and other major universities in the U. S. and Europe. For 10 years in the 1970s he was on the faculty of the Engineering and Management Short Course at UCLA. He has conducted project management seminars in 14 countries on 4 continents in English, frequently using simultaneous translation.

Russ's seminars are characterized by intensive team work sessions, based on the premise that even executives and managers learn by doing. Effective education and learning takes place in his seminars at four levels:
1. Imparting knowledge with brief presentations.
2. Exchange of knowledge and experience between fellow seminar participants during the team sessions and with coaching from the seminar leader.
3. Learning from other teams during the team presentations in the seminar
4. Discussion and further exchange between Russ and the seminar participants during the team presentations.