Built by Someone Who's Actually Run PMOs
Founder
PMO Director · AI Practitioner
Operational depth meets practical AI
I've spent two decades inside project delivery — running PMOs, leading programmes, and rebuilding operating models for teams under real pressure. Northstone Consulting exists because I kept seeing the same gap: PMOs being asked to modernise without anyone who'd actually done the operational work alongside them.
- 20+ years in project management and programme delivery
- Operated at PMO Director and Programme Director level
- Hands-on AI practitioner — not a theorist
- Specialist in translating AI capability into real PMO operations
- Built and deployed the frameworks this consultancy uses
The gap between AI hype and PMO reality
PMOs are being left behind — overwhelmed with admin, under-resourced for transformation, and handed AI tools without a practical framework for adopting them safely. Most external advice is either too generic to be useful or too theoretical to be operationalised.
This consultancy was built to fix that gap with operational experience, not theory. Every framework, workflow, and policy we deploy has been built and tested in real delivery environments.
Five principles, applied every engagement
AI should reduce friction, not add it
Governance is non-negotiable
Implementation without enablement fails
Outcomes before tools, always
Every PMO is different — no templates without context
Lean, visible, trusted
A modern PMO runs leaner, delivers better, and gives leadership real visibility — not because they work harder, but because they work smarter. That's what this consultancy builds toward.