Strengthening delivery capability at scale.

Paul founded The Project Academy in 2007, following a fast track-career at engineering and construction group Costain. Having managed many successful projects and programmes, he became an internal consultant to the Board, leading on the review and improvement of project management capability across the Group. This period provided huge insight into the challenges of driving thought leadership and organisational change.

At The Project Academy, Paul specialises in the development and delivery of bespoke programmes for senior professionals, driving improved project and leadership capability. He is a coach to senior individuals and project teams, having formally trained at Ashridge School of Management. He is a coach on the UK Government’s Project Leadership Programme, where he also delivers electives on psychology of change leadership and collaboration.

Paul is an expert in the higher levels of professional standards of the Association for Project Management. He managed the APM’s key project to develop Registered Project Professional, the forbearer to the Chartered Project Professional standard. He has mentored over 100 senior professional to gain APM accreditations and to increase capability to lead in complex environments. He is an expert in the use of APM’s competence framework to assess and develop skills, both at individual and company levels.

Accreditations include: Chartered Civil Engineer, APM Registered Project Professional, Advanced Practitioner for Kirton Adaption – Innovation psychometric and an accredited practitioner for the Hogan suite of psychometrics.

You can read more about Paul here.

Janine is the Training Manager at The Project Academy Limited (TPA), where she has been a valued team member since 2010. With a background in computing, Janine has supported thousands of clients, ensuring the smooth administration of training courses and coaching programs. Her strong communication and organisational skills enable her to build seamless experiences for our clients, guiding them through complex processes to achieve impactful results.

With great patience and an eye for detail, Janine plays a critical role in supporting our training team, especially in today’s busy environment. Janine works out of our registered office in Hadleigh, Suffolk.

In addition to her role at TPA, Janine has earned her APM Project Management Qualification, which has proven invaluable when managing diverse client contracts. For the past nine years, Janine has been a core member of the training management team for the UK Government's Project Leadership Programme (PLP). In partnership with Cranfield University and PA Consulting, Janine has helped deliver 12-month development journeys to over 2,000 senior project practitioners.

Outside of work, Janine enjoys running and cycling and spending time with her family.

Adrian Wilson draws on 30 years experience of many project and line-management roles in both military and civilian environments. He is an experienced consultant in project management and is also an accomplished educator. He has business skills developed in many client-facing environments, both within the public and private sectors. He regularly lectures at Warwick University on a MSc programme. He joined the Project Academy in 2013.

At The Project Academy, he teaches project management to business and technical clientele. He undertakes training needs analysis, course design and tailoring material for tutor-led courses. He specializes in teaching the APM Fundamentals Qualification, the Project Management Qualification and general project management skills courses.

His consultancy engagements have included: running project initiation workshops, health checks, setting-up framework and governance arrangements, project manager coaching, process improvement and acting as an interim project manager. His customers have included: Network Rail, Samsung, Red Bull, BT, Bank of England, RBS, Lloyds Banking Group, Legal & General, BAE Systems, REMPLOY, John Lewis, Ocado, nPOWER, Eurostar, Met Office, MoD, Home Office, charities and various other government departments.

Accreditations include: Chartered Engineer, accredited PRINCE2® Professional and Fellow of the Association for Project Management

You can read more about Adrian here.

Paul is a content expert in Portfolio, Programme and Project Management as well as portfolio level Integrated Assurance.  Paul is known for his enthusiastic and engaging approach and by using this with his strong stakeholder management skills has been at the forefront of portfolio management and developing project leadership skills in Government. Paul is particularly well known for his pragmatic approach recognising that local practical delivery wins over theory.  Paul has worked for 8 Government Departments and 2 Private Sector organisations delivering major transformation and complex business change projects.

At The Project Academy, Paul specialises in coaching senior professionals on the Cabinet Office’s Project Leadership Programme, a gold standard development programme for senior Government project Managers who have been targeted by their Heads of Profession as having significant potential to be future Leaders of Major Projects.

Paul has a significant track record of influencing the direction, pace and implementation of portfolio/project management in Government.  Working collaboratively with Cabinet Office Paul introduced the PPM Head of Profession role, created and was founder member of the cross Government PPM Council and the first ever APMs Portfolio management special interest group. Paul has 5 years experience of running and influencing Portfolio Management in HMRC.  As HMRCs PPM Head of Profession he developed a strong, highly professional and qualified community of 1,000 project managers. Paul has worked with APM on their journey to getting “Chartered Body” status where he is a member of the Professional Standards and Knowledge Committee.

Paul is a high risk Cabinet Office Gateway Review team leader and is a Fellow of the Association of Project Management.

You can read more about Paul here.

Carole joined The Project Academy team in early 2016, bringing her experience of leading complex change and transformation programmes in the NHS and other sectors including pharma, oil and gas, and IT. Based at Ashridge Business School for almost 20 years, she’s worked as an organisation consultant, and has educated and coached hundreds of senior leaders from across the globe – equipping them with the skills to read and influence the relationship and organisation dynamics that undermine project delivery.

This informs all of her work with The Project Academy. You’ll find it not far below the surface when she is coaching project leaders, project sponsors and project teams, and when she designing and delivering programmes and interventions to support client’s business change and transformation initiatives.

With expertise from the emerging discipline of neuroscience, Carole empowers those she works with to understand how the human brain works, how this creates project uncertainty and how we can use this knowledge to enable (rather than inadvertently disable) individual and organisational change. She has recently written Neuroscience, Uncertainty and Project Delivery – a Practitioner’s Guide, based on her work as a coach on the UK Government’s Project Leadership Programme.

Accreditations include: Carole is a Cranfield MBA who gained her Ashridge Executive and Leadership coach accreditation in 2003 following an EMCC process. She holds an Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and the Arts and is a PRINCE2 Practitioner. She is licensed to use many psychometrics including LVI, Profilor, FiroB and MBTI, and is listed by the British Psychological Society (BPS) on the Register of Qualifications in Test Use (RQTU). She is also an associate member of the APM.

You can read more about Carole here.

Tanya is an Experienced PPM professional and leadership coach, with 30+ years cross-sector business experience.

Areas of expertise include project and programme management capability development, embedding portfolio management and benefits management, organisational development and transformation, change management and developing leaders of change.

Starting her career as a BBC worlds service journalist, Tanya has worked across sectors delivering business change and development.

You can read more about Tanya here.

Samia has over 25 years coaching, Change Management Consulting, Occupational Psychology Consulting, communications and business experience working within leading Change Management and Occupational Psychology firms, as well as freelancing and owning her own business. Samia’s career experience varies and has worked with companies such as IBM, the BBC, Marks and Spencers as well as a number of government departments.

With extensive experience in people development and coaching, Samia has worked across Europe and in the Middle East. In Abu Dhabi, Samia, set up her own business, hired staff and whilst making extensive use of digital marketing, social media and PR, her business became a famous landmark in the city.

You can read more about Samia here.

Sasi is passionate when it comes to supporting organisations to unlock innovation, creativity and performance held within their greatest and most, valuable assets: leaders, teams and projects.
She does this by actively engaging with her clients needs and delivering creative solutions that keep her constantly evolving her leadership coaching approach. Most recently, through applied neuroscience techniques and development of anovel coaching model that supports sustainable behavioural change.

She has 20 years of project change management experience in the pharmaceutical industry. During this time, she has managed and led global matrix teams and projects to fruition. Over the last ten years she has delivered internal leadership coaching to senior leaders, specialising in developing talent through cross cultural coaching.

You can read more about Sasi here.

Adrian has been working with The Project Academy and its founders for over ten years after a successful career as a practising project manager and as an academic.

As a Chartered Engineer and ‘hands-on’ project manager he has successfully delivered numerous projects, including high profile engineering and infrastructure projects (hydro-power), both nationally and internationally. This has included positions with both Owner organisations, commissioning and overseeing projects, and with Supplier Organisation, including the role of Consortium Manager. As an academic he has written courseware and lectured students to M. Sc. Level.

This combination of a broad practical insight and academic analysis provide a detailed and holistic understanding of the challenges faced by the full spectrum of the project management community members. Coupled with this, his natural empathy and excellent communication skills allows him to enjoy a reputation as a friendly, popular and approachable professional whether acting as a consultant, coach, lecturer, trainer, assessor, auditor or author.

Within these roles he has assisted very many other fellow professionals and organisations (including public and private, owners and suppliers) to enjoy similar levels of success with the management of their own projects. He continues to do this for a number of clients of The Project Academy, most notably writing and delivering bespoke training courses.

He has a particular interest in the tailoring of the established approaches to project management to the role and context of suppliers and has authored the book ‘Project Management For Supplier Organizations; Harmonising the Project Owner to Supplier Relationship’. (2015)

Accreditations include: B.Eng (Hons) (Mechanical Engineering, Bradford University, 1988), M.Sc. (Engineering Management, Bristol University, 1999) , C.Eng., M.I.Mech.E., MAPM, PMP®

You can read more about Adrian here.

Trevor joined forces with Paul Erricker shortly after he founded The Project Academy in 2007. Trevor’s early career included a number of years as Finance Director for a major recruitment business, followed by 5 years in Management Consultancy before he set up his own business in 1991. For the first 10 years he focused on developing competency frameworks for many blue chip organisations across a range of industries, including Shell, BP, W H Smith, Porsche, Carillion, Amey, etc. In 2001 Trevor’s team developed the first online competency profiling software which has been used by Shell and many other organisations from 2002 onwards.

In his work with The Project Academy, Trevor specialises in the development of behavioural, technical and contextual competency frameworks, often to support or supplement the APM’s own competence framework. In addition Trevor and his team develop and support online competency assessment using the latest technology for self-assessment, 360 feedback and coaching. This technology is in use with Shell, The Cabinet Office and other key clients who value its modern interface and ease of use.

Trevor’s expertise is in the area of assessment, via structured interviews, assessment or development centres at all levels of management. His deep understanding of competencies, and experience of working with the APM frameworks for many years, enables him to support TPA colleagues in benchmarking and development of high-performing project professionals and project teams.

Accreditations include: Member of the Institute of Financial Accountants and Member of the Institute of Public Accountants. Trevor also has a depth of experience in strategic HR and the use of various psychometric instruments.

I am a qualified Senior Programme/Project/Portfolio Manager based in the North-East of England with a successful track record of initialising and delivering high-profile complex Programmes & Projects embedding a change culture in demanding stakeholder environments across a range of Public Sector Government Departments. I have significant expertise typically working with Senior Sponsors and Programme Directors both within HMRC and Other Government Departments along with Private Sector suppliers to design, plan and lead major business transformation, IT programmes with budgets typically exceeding £100m and matrix teams of 500+ staff.

I am passionate about developing project professionals to deliver improved services through mentoring and cohort groups providing the leadership and experience so individuals can develop to work at pace to successfully deliver Programmes & Projects across both Government and the Private Sector. Since leaving HMRC I have undertaken a range of Private & Public Sector Contract Project Management roles. I have also been active with the Association of Project Management (APM) for several years as an accredited Chartership Assessor carrying out reviews of Chartership Assessment Applications and conducting Chartership interviews on behalf of APM. I also carry out Level 4 Diploma Apprentice End Point Assessments.

My Personal interests include being professional musician – percussionist (drummer) in a North-East Function Band, Fly Fishing and holidaying.

Doug has over 25 years of experience and a proven track record of delivering complex, multi-vendor projects in the business and operational environments for the telecoms and data sector. These include: British Telecom’s Holiday Uplift Payment solution to meet the EU directive on the inclusion of contractual overtime, commissions and allowances into holiday pay, leading the technical PMO for BT’s migration of their Global HR capability to a cloud based solution and a project to deliver substantial cost savings by recovering and re-using UK data network equipment. Doug is experienced in the analysis of business processes in order to compile baseline metrics against which clear business benefits for a project can be derived and agreed with key stakeholders.

After successfully obtaining the APM’s Registered Project Professional (RPP) accreditation in 2011 Doug has been a member of the APM’s RPP assessor pool for both RPP1 and RPP2 competence frameworks. During this time Doug successfully performed the APM’s RPP assessor role for the APM/Shell contract in the Netherlands. Doug is also an examination marker for the new suite of APM’s Project Professional Qualifications (PPQ).

Doug is a very keen advocate of the APM’s RPP and Chartered Standard and has successfully mentored over 100 plus project professionals across the UK through the RPP process for both Provek and The Project Academy.

I am a Chartered Project Professional and experienced Project Director with a strong track record of delivering complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives across time zones within both the public and private sectors. Based in the East Midlands.  I combine my 14 years military background in the Royal Engineers with my 19  years post military project experience to deliver adventurous leadership development through my outdoor adventure company, SR Exploranza.

In addition to running SR Exploranza, I am currently leading a high-profile, self-managed three-year project to break the world record for climbing all 120 P600 mountains across the UK and Ireland in just 140 days—a physically and logistically demanding challenge raising significant funds for Alzheimer’s Research UK in memory of my mother (£5 million target). This project draws on my expertise in long-range planning, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and team mobilisation at scale.

I have been an Assessor for the Association for Project Management (APM) since 2011, initially for the Registered and subsequently Chartered Project Professional awards.

Outside of project delivery, as you might imagine, I’m passionate about conservation, mountains, and helping others grow through outdoor challenge. I believe in the power of nature to heal, inspire, and develop resilience—in life and in leadership.  Personal development and growth, my owns and that of others,  have been at the centre of my whole career.

Brian DUBRIE is as a highly experienced Chartered engineer and a strategic transformational leader, with over 40 year’s experience and an in-depth knowledge across the Defence and Security sector. A graduate of the Cabinet Office sponsored Major Project Leadership Academy (MPLA) and an experienced Cabinet Office High Risk Review Team Leader, 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. He has led over 70 High Risk Reviews across government including, MOD, GCHQ, CT Policing, HO, FCDO, BEIS, HMRC, DfT and the NDA. A Fellow of the IET and the APM and a successful leader of Major Transformation Programmes, both as a SRO and a Programme Director. He is also an experienced and qualified Executive Coach who is currently coaching cohort members of the Project Leadership Programme (PLP).

Now an independent consultant working with Industry and Government as a strategic advisor. His last role in government was as a Deputy Director in the National Crime Agency responsible for the delivery of a portfolio of complex crime fighting technology programmes and transforming the Agency’s IT Services. Prior to this, he was a Deputy Director in the MoD leading a team of 500 staff, responsible for the delivery of a £7.2Bn highly secure IT infrastructure programme across 1,200 MOD sites supporting 250,000 Users in the UK, Overseas and Deployed locations in the Middle East. His career spans senior positions in Diplomacy, Intelligence, International Collaboration, Science and Technology, Counter Terrorism and People Transformation.

Technically astute, calm under pressure and a natural collaborator with mature people transformation skills, who enjoys building strong stakeholder relationships.

Brian spends much of his spare time with his family, fighting an ever-losing battle with his garden and an odd bit of running and cycling with his wife, to try and maintain some level of fitness and sanity!