360° Programme & Project Health Check
You run it, you report on it, and the board takes your word - but nothing independent stands behind that word. Even a well-run programme has blind spots its own team is too close to see: in governance, in team dynamics, in whether the business will actually adopt what you build. “Green” tells you nothing until the day it isn't. Waiting for trouble to surface in the RAG report isn't assurance; it's hope.
The strongest programme directors don't wait - they put an independent line of sight behind their own reporting, on their own terms, whilst there's still room to act.
You're too close to the work to see it clearly. You need a trusted partner who can identify the hidden risks buried in team dynamics, governance gaps, and adoption failure.
Your transformation portfolio carries significant commercial risk. You need the facts - fast. Not another reassuring status update from the team doing the work.
You have oversight responsibility for a major transformation programme but you're working entirely from the executive team's own reporting. You know you should be providing independent challenge - but you can't see behind the numbers.
Why Independent Assurance
When you want to know the real state of your programme, you have four options. Only one is independent, is in the room, and stands by what it finds.
Your own PMO?
However good your team is, they can't be independent of a programme they run. That's the definition of marking your own homework - and it's the one judgement a board discounts.
AI tools?
AI reads the documents you already have. It never gets in the room, never reads the silence in a governance forum, never interviews the person who won't put their concern in writing - and it will never put its name to a judgement a board will act on.
A Big 4 firm?
The large consultancies arrive with a delivery arm to protect and a follow-on engagement to sell. Independence is hard to trust from a firm that wants the implementation contract next.
ENOS holds no delivery contract on your programme and never will.
One senior operator who has personally run £100m+ transformation programmes for 30+ years, with no stake in the outcome except being right. Five steps, fast turnaround, fixed price - and a scored, evidenced report built to go straight in front of your board without translation. Assurance you can stand behind, because someone independent already did.
The Diagnostic
Six interconnected dimensions that determine whether a programme delivers - or stalls. Every one of them matters. When one fails, the others invariably follow.
COG 01
Is the programme solving the right problem? We test alignment between strategic intent and what the programme is delivering, including what it has quietly dropped.
COG 02
Are decisions being made on evidence, or politics? We assess whether the right work is in flight, the right work is being protected, and the right work has been deferred.
COG 03
Are the mechanics sound? Velocity, dependency management, resourcing, risk tracking - we go beneath the RAG status to what is happening on the ground.
COG 04
Is accountability real or performative? We examine whether decision-making forums are empowered to act, or just venues for reporting what leadership wants to hear.
COG 05
Will anyone actually use what you're building? Business readiness, change management, training - we test whether the organisation is being carried with the programme or left behind.
COG 06
Can you demonstrate the value? We assess whether benefits are defined, owned, tracked, and - critically - whether anyone will still be accountable for them after the programme closes.
The Process
A structured, time-bounded engagement that respects your team's capacity whilst still getting to the truth.
Pre-Discovery Questionnaire
You complete a structured briefing document. We arrive informed, not blank-slate. Your team's time is not wasted on orientation.
Discovery Call
Scoping session with the commissioning stakeholder. We agree scope, access, boundaries, and what a successful outcome looks like.
Active Fieldwork
Interviews, documentation review, and observation across all six cogs. We go wherever the evidence leads, and we read what the RAG reports don't say.
Authority Asset
A scored, evidenced PDF report across all six dimensions. Designed to be placed in front of a board or audit committee without further translation.
Stakeholder Debrief
A structured readout with the commissioning stakeholder and - where appropriate - the wider leadership team. We stay in the room for the hard questions.
Evidenced Delivery
Three examples of programmes where independent scrutiny changed the trajectory.
Leeds Building Society
Eight weeks behind schedule on arrival. The programme had stalled in the dependency between waterfall governance and an agile delivery team neither side understood. We diagnosed the fault line, rebuilt the coordination model, and transitioned the programme mid-flight.
Delivered on time - first among all suppliers
Betfred / Sharp Gaming
3.5 million customer accounts to migrate. The programme lacked a dependency model robust enough to sequence the work safely. We built the governance framework, closed the dependency gaps, and managed the migration to completion with lower-than-projected service disruption.
3.5m accounts migrated successfully
The Co-operative Bank
250,000 mortgage accounts. A £100m regulatory programme running against a fixed regulator deadline. We identified a revised delivery approach that cut six months from the original timeline without compromising the regulatory standard - and won the argument in front of the board.
6 months saved. Regulatory standard maintained.
What People Say
Geoff has an exceptional ability to get to the root cause of a problem quickly. He doesn't just report what's wrong - he provides the evidence and the path forward in a way that leadership can act on immediately.
Iain McCormack
Head of Projects & Change, Betfred · 2022
What set Geoff apart was his ability to hold the mirror up to a complex programme without alienating the team. The Health Check gave us clarity we simply didn't have before - and the board took notice.
Tom Romer
Chief Architect, DXC Technology (LBS account) · 2020
Geoff's diagnostic identified issues we had been circling around for months. His report was direct, evidenced, and - crucially - credible enough to take to senior stakeholders without further qualification.
Karl Lucas
Head of Live Service, DXC Technology (LBS account) · 2020
Next Step
A Discovery Call is short and focused. You'll leave with a clear picture of scope, process, and exactly what an independent Health Check would put in front of your board - on your terms, whilst there's still room to act.