Biography

A semi-retired project professional. In his long carer he has led or rescued Transformations, and has designed, built, led and advised on project delivery organisations. Adrian has worked in 12 industries, in both commercial and public sectors, here in the UK and internationally. In the last 15 years Adrian has focussed and consulted on Project and organisational Agility, the creation and sustaining of organisational landscapes within which projects can thrive and advising start-ups. Since the early 1990s, Adrian has contributed to and co-authored UK PM standards e.g. Managing Successful Programmes, Association of Project Management Guides e.g. on Programme Management and Agility, plus the Gower Handbook of Programme Management (1st Ed.). In 2022 his own book: Agile Beyond IT, a Business Book Awards Finalist, was published (now also in Chinese), written he says, partly out of deep rage at so many organisations wasting investment. He has been on PM research steering committees, including into the use of AI in project management. Adrian remains a frequent writer and blogger, visiting lecturer and a regular webinar panel member, and is he says, still learning. Adrian co-organised APM's first Diversity conference and is a Trustee of MyMelanoma, a cancer research charity. He lives in Dorset with his partner, a retired RIBA award winning architect.