Project management consultancy for delivery that has to work.

When a programme has lost its way, the first job is an honest diagnosis: what is actually blocking delivery, what has been assumed rather than agreed, and what a realistic path looks like from here. I produce a recovery plan the sponsor can defend and the delivery team can execute — and then stay to drive it through.

Sometimes there is no crisis, just a gap. I step in as Project Director or Project Manager at short notice and run the programme as if it were my own — from mobilisation through to benefits realisation — then hand over cleanly when the permanent role is filled.

An independent read on whether a programme will land. I look at the plan, resourcing, dependencies, commercials and governance, and report what I find without softening it — with a clear list of what has to change, and by when.

Most projects that fail do not fail technically. They fail because the people who needed to agree never did. Getting boards, sponsors, suppliers and delivery teams back into the same conversation — and keeping them there long enough for the plan to work — is where I add the most value.