Lesley Elder-Aznar Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Remote

Providing project management, business change, career coaching and project assurance services at Lesley Elder Consulting Limited. Working with individuals and organisations to understand the impact of change and how to excel during challenging times. Highly experienced career coach with over 15 years of experience in helping leaders, teams and individuals navigate change. Focused on the people aspects of change and project delivery to support the realisation of project benefits:- ensuring appropriate governance frameworks are in place to support multiple project methodologies- upskilling change teams and developing change management and user adoption skills- working with senior leaders to develop "leading through change" skills- conducting project audit and assurance assessments to identify areas for improvement, produce remediation plans, and support project managers in implementing remedial actions- conducting business change impact assessments to develop change action plans, including training and comms plansAvailable for both short-term, one-off assignments and longer-term contract and interim roles. Lesley Elder- Aznar is the author of introductory project management book "I Would Rather Eat a Cactus...than Run a Project", and founder of the Cactus Club, a community for aspiring and experienced project managers.

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De-mystifying the world of project management for new and aspiring project managers, and training the next generation of project auditors. Get your copy of the Cactus introductory guide to project management: https://getbook.at/cactus-club

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Providing business change and project management services for the launch of a new Life & Pensions fintech joint venture between AIB and Irish Life (winner of the PMI Project of the Year Award 2023).Saol Assurance is the operating company for AIB life, a high-growth start-up disrupting the Life industry in Ireland.

Remote

Leading the business change workstream on a global IT Transformation programme, implementing target operating model changes across 40 countries.

London, England, United Kingdom

Establishing a new project office, implementing new change methodology, turnaround of business critical projects, project quality assurance, programme management, project management, project delivery, business case preparation, business case presentation, budget management, budget planning, portfolio planning, project delivery, stakeholder management, interpersonal skills, change management, people management, communication skills roadmap development, programme planning, project planning, project plans using waterfall and agile methodologies. Excellent negotiation and mediation skills. Organization skills, risk mitigation. Projects: LIBOR replacement, Peoplesoft implementation.

Isle Of Man, United Kingdom

Establishing new project standards and methodology, project office management, project budget management, data migration projects, stakeholder management, interpersonal skills, leading a team, communication skills, analytical skills, commercial awareness, leadership, programme management. Turnaround of business critical data migration project. Delivery of strategy programme.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Managing the change project portfolio, managing programme and project team leadership to deliver the strategic objectives of this rapid growth assurance business. Vendor management, budget management, problem solving, mediation, issue resolution. Project quality assurance, budget management, communication skills, budget management, programme delivery.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Finance transformation, system implementation, business change; using waterfall, agile, scrum and six sigma methodologies. Programme delivery, project office management, managing stakeholders communications planning, business case preparation.

Northampton

Redesign and implementation of the TOM and methodology for the Change and IT functions.

London, England, United Kingdom

Implementation of the restructure and downsizing programme across the investment bank.

Msc International & European Politics, American Foreign Policy, African Development, Microfinance

Pg Cert Conflict Resolution & Mediation

Managing Successful Programmes, Programme Management

Ba (Hons), Business/Commerce