A career that spans multiple industries, including financial services, insurance, manufacturing and service, healthcare, local government and utilities. He is renowned for possessing stellar technical, project management, and interpersonal skills. A proven motivational leader with a talent for developing highly effective and successful individuals and teams, and a strong belief that the right team building and leadership skills can add value to any organization. When it comes to building out a Project Management discipline within an organization Chris has a reputation for driving change within organizations and in doing so creating a successful pattern to be followed on future projects.
He is currently the Global Head of Technology Change at Apex Group where he is building the Delivery Capabilities across the organization including the Project and Portfolio Management discipline. This continues his focus and passion shown throughout his career when it comes to helping organizations focus on the right projects and have a balanced portfolio of them to deliver against the organizations goals.
Previously he undertook the transformation of Global PMO’s with teams of up to 150 Project Managers and set up Shared Services focused on Project and Portfolio Management, Workforce Optimization, Organizational Change Management, Operational Training and RPA. He also ran the Project Management Office responsible for all the IT and Business related projects to open up the first all digital hospital in Wisconsin in the US.
Over the years Chris has been involved in a multitude of large successful implementations and presented at conferences about those implementations. He has spent his career in the UK, US and now Ireland.