IDEAS TO OUTCOMES
Services
I've worked over a wide variety of organisations, industries, programmes, projects and operational management needs. I'm a problem solver and embrace opportunities, whether loosely or tightly defined. I'm very comfortable with ambiguity - in fact one of my skills is making sense of complex situations. If you don't see the service you're looking for below, give me a call and let's have a conversation about how I can help.
Board Governance
Board expertise as both Director and Chair, with strengths in strategic leadership, board culture, collaboration, governance structures and organising for effective interactions with management and customer communities.
Portfolio & Programme Governance
Guiding PMO establishment and maturity growth, enhancing strategic alignment, and fortifying organisational capabilities in executing strategies. Working with senior leaders to establish effective governance structures for portfolios, sub-portfolios and programmes, including governance training.
Transformations and Performance Improvement
Organisation-wide and service focused transformations, delivered through programmes and/or continuous improvement. Performance reviews, planning, monitoring and capability building .
Stakeholder Engagement
Identifying, building and maintaining relationships that foster mutually beneficial outcomes. Stakeholder engagment planning, including identifying gaps and reasons for underperforming relationships. Relationship building is one of my key strengths and one I enjoy very much.
Strategy Development
Development and refresh of strategic plans and implementation planning. Application of approaches that best fit the need, including expertise in a number of established frameworks.
Portfolio & Programme Management
Leadership of PMOs and improving performance. Establishing structures that support customer centric services. Implementation of methods and practices. Capability uplift and career development of portfolio, programme & project professionals.
Trouble shooting & Quality Assurance
Using deep experience and expertise to quickly dig into problems and provide clear impactful quick-wins and longer term strategies for improvement. Apply techniques to bring errant projects back on track. Conduct QA reviews and produce high quality review reports suitable for Boards, C-suite, management and teams.
Business Case Development and Evaluation
Develpment of business cases and supporting others to do so. Application of Treasury's five-case (Better Business Case) model. Informal reviews and formal assessments.