Portfolio Delivery Office

Operations

The Portfolio Delivery Office (PDO) helps the Institute to make better decisions about change and deliver it successfully. 

We bring together Portfolio Management, Project Management, Process Analysis, Continuous Improvement, and Standards and Assurance to provide the expertise, insight, and practical support teams need to turn priorities into outcomes and benefits.

The PDO works across the Institute to:

  • Provide visibility of the change portfolio, investment, capacity, and delivery, enabling better prioritisation and decision-making.
  • Help teams deliver effectively, providing practical project, process, and continuous improvement expertise where it is needed.
  • Create consistency without unnecessary bureaucracy, with proportionate standards, frameworks, and ways of working.
  • Keep change focused on value, connecting strategic priorities to clear outcomes and benefits and challenging where these are at risk.
  • Build organisational capability, helping teams develop the skills, confidence, and ways of working to deliver change themselves.

By bringing these capabilities together, the PDO helps move the Institute from fragmented approaches to more connected, collaborative, predictable, and value-focused delivery.

Core team

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Ian Hardy

Senior Project Manager

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Ceri May

Project Manager

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Karen McLaren

Head of Product & Delivery 

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Tolu Osunnuyi

Project Manager