Your go-to experts for Advisory, Assurance, and Public Sector projects
We are trusted, proven, truly independent, and experienced major projects advisory and assurance experts.
We specialise in supporting the delivery of public sector portfolios, major projects and programmes.
Your challenges are our priority, providing the support you need, when you need it: lean, tailored, focused.
Why choose us?
- The numbers and complexity of Government major projects continue to grow. We are major project experts with unparalleled experience in successful delivery, advice, and assurance of major projects. We have delivered in Departments and arms length bodies (ALBs).
- We have been NISTA associates, and we are NISTA Gateway review team leads.
- The Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) is being re-ordered and reprioritised, with most major projects being assured within and by their Departments and ALBs. This huge sub-set is the Departmental Major Projects Portfolio (DMPP) and will require independent experts to provide targeted advice and supportive reviews.
- We focus on improving your in-house capability through knowledge transfer of our expertise and support during delivery.
- We are poised and ready to support you to meet the challenge of delivering these significant and important portfolios, programmes and projects.
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What will we do for you?
- We have the experience and skills:
- Constructive assurance: fielding a capable and relevant team to design the assurance needed and provide an effective assurance report relevant to the project’s current stage
- Valuable advice and deliverables: operating models, governance, organisational design, leadership, commercial, digital, capability and capacity building
- Building capability: SRO roles and behaviours, governance, sponsorship and delivery teams
- Accredited and trained by NISTA
- Cost effective: we will not “land and expand” but bring individuals with years of actual delivery experience to solve your problems
How do we operate?
Assurance: review team leaders, members, whole teams, and review design and frameworks
Advisory: individual advisers, small teams, non-executive support – working closely and credibly with your teams and stakeholders
Capability building: bespoke support delivered by Major Project Leadership Academy experts
All tailored to your requirements: Delivering high-value inputs based on practical experience across many major government projects, programmes and portfolios
Who are we?
- Our team comprises former GMPP leaders (programme directors and SROs), former and current IPA/NISTA review team leaders, reviewers and associates.
- They have experience across:
- A wide variety of types of programme and project: infrastructure, transformation and military capability. Digital and commercial capabilities are key to all, and our team is well versed in complex delivery
- All departments and the majority of arms length bodies
- We understand how government works. We can land our advice and input successfully
Our People
A small sample of our team, with more profiles to be added soon.
Emily Ackroyd
With a working career in the Civil Service Emily is familiar with Departments including DWP, HMRC and DCMS. She spent five years in No 10 and latterly was deputy head of Government Digital Services so is familiar with systems, cyber and security.
Emily Ackroyd
With a working career in the Civil Service Emily is familiar with Departments including DWP, HMRC and DCMS. She spent five years in No 10 and latterly was deputy head of Government Digital Services so is familiar with systems, cyber and security.
Grant Bremmer
With a successful portfolio of work turning operational, commercial and contractual requirements into realistic deliverable solutions, Grant has extensive commercial and negotiation experience, and domain knowledge in various sectors including aerospace, military operations, infrastructure, and government.
Grant Bremmer
With a successful portfolio of work turning operational, commercial and contractual requirements into realistic deliverable solutions, Grant has extensive commercial and negotiation experience, and domain knowledge in various sectors including aerospace, military operations, infrastructure, and government.
Nick Borwell OBE
With a main career in the Army, then Mott McDonald, then NISTA, Nick is expert in capital programme and portfolio assurance. Nick developed the MPLA Oxford Said training programme for government.
Nick Borwell OBE
With a main career in the Army, then Mott McDonald, then NISTA, Nick is expert in capital programme and portfolio assurance. Nick developed the MPLA Oxford Said training programme for government.
Martin Dove
A Chartered Accountant, Martin leads service transformations and assurance reviews for government projects. He also provides mentorship and facilitates Masterclasses for project leaders.
Martin Dove
A Chartered Accountant, Martin leads service transformations and assurance reviews for government projects. He also provides mentorship and facilitates Masterclasses for project leaders.
Brian Dubrie
An experienced NISTA High Risk Review Team Leader and Associate, with strengths in project assurance, project set-up and project recovery covering the broad spectrum of governance, project controls, risk, finance, business cases and benefits.
Brian Dubrie
An experienced NISTA High Risk Review Team Leader and Associate, with strengths in project assurance, project set-up and project recovery covering the broad spectrum of governance, project controls, risk, finance, business cases and benefits.
Hazel Hobbs
Former Director of Strategy for the Government Digital Service, she brings 20 years of experience working across government including its major infrastructure delivery. She is a trusted advisor with expertise in policy, strategy, and leadership, and is a qualified executive leadership coach.
Hazel Hobbs
Former Director of Strategy for the Government Digital Service, she brings 20 years of experience working across government including its major infrastructure delivery. She is a trusted advisor with expertise in policy, strategy, and leadership, and is a qualified executive leadership coach.
Adam Stork
With a senior consulting career in Gemini/Cap Gemini, KPMG and Atkins, Adam is an expert in major transformation and capital programme delivery and assurance.
Adam Stork
With a senior consulting career in Gemini/Cap Gemini, KPMG and Atkins, Adam is an expert in major transformation and capital programme delivery and assurance.
Matthew Symes
With an early consulting career in PwC, Matthew then created and led two independent consulting practices since 2004. He led the mobilisation of the London 2012 Games from 2005 – 2007 and has led over 150 assurance reviews for IPA / NISTA, the NAO, ICAI and private sector clients. He recently led the lesson learned exercise about Crossrail’s sponsorship model.
Matthew Symes
With an early consulting career in PwC, Matthew then created and led two independent consulting practices since 2004. He led the mobilisation of the London 2012 Games from 2005 – 2007 and has led over 150 assurance reviews for IPA / NISTA, the NAO, ICAI and private sector clients. He recently led the lesson learned exercise about Crossrail’s sponsorship model.