Donna Forsdyke

Director of Project Delivery

A skilled programme and project manager with experience in leading large, complex programmes. Expert in leading project planning, resourcing, staffing, progress reporting, troubleshooting, and people management. Adept at monitoring performance and recommending schedule changes, cost adjustments, and resource additions. Managing transformational and efficiency programs within a matrix organisation and via a combination of in-house, contracted and outsourced resources with multiple workstreams and stakeholders. Donna has many years of experience in leading large, complex programmes. She is experienced in several project management methodologies, including Prince2 and AgilePM.

Experience

• Expert in leading project planning, resourcing, staffing, progress reporting, troubleshooting, and people management.
• Adept at monitoring performance and recommending schedule changes, cost adjustments, and resource additions.
• Masters at managing transformational and efficiency programs, within a matrix organisation and via a combination of in-house, contracted & outsourced resources with multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
• Proven track record at leading teams that deliver business and process change.
• Developed the PMO function of a multi-million-pound portfolio.
• Developed best practice, policy, and procedures to increase project performance.
• Provided independent assurance in terms of health checks, gate reviews, and prioritisation.
• Identified overall and specific performance of the complete portfolio by ensuring timeliness and quality of reports, and collating metrics.
• Controlled and delivered large, complex, and ambiguous programs.
• Steered program design, structure, planning, execution, and resource management.