Welcome,
I'm Steve Wake.
Steve Wake founded the EVM and the PMC Sigs in the Association for Project Management (APM) and was the Chairman of APM, leading it to chartered status. He is now a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Guild of Educators. He is also a Cabinet Office advisor. He advises and guides many organisations and delivers training to several government departments.
He has set up a working party to develop a GCSE in Project Skills, now called the Project Skills Alliance. Read more here. He is a member of the British Standards Institution M/S 2 committee, responsible for national standards in project programme and portfolio management, and he was its Chair from 2022-24.
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He led the development of BS202001 Project Controls, in which MOD is a participant and works closely with the PsACE community, harmonising estimating practices in government and its supply chain. He also represents BSi on ISO WG12, developing guides for EVM.
He will be the founding Chair of the newly named Controls and Skills Authority, formerly ACOSTE.
He continues to curate the long-running and highly regarded EVA conference. Founded in 1996.
He adores music and silence in almost equal measure.
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Andrew Edkins
Professor Emeritus Management of Complex Projects at The Bartlett UCL
I have worked in construction (I was on a graduate training scheme with the former John Laing - proudly part of the team who built Chelsea & Westminster hospital - the first 'fast-track' major teaching hospital project for the NHS). I have been in industry and an academic, but sandwiched in my academic career I spent four years as a member of the senior management team in the PFI sector - working for a company that was the operator and consortium hub for PFI/PPP prisons.
Louisa Scanlan
Collaborate Business Solutions
Louisa’s passion is in supporting organisations to move beyond the transactional; moving beyond transactional conversations and relationships, to drive lasting change, connected teams and truly inspiring organisations. Her style is inquisitive and creative. Her work with the Lumina suite of psychometrics enables her clients to experience the next generation in psychometrics and are a pivotal part of the solutions from Collaborate.
Tommy Clarke
Head of Programme Controls
Sizewell C
An experienced Project Controls Director who has worked on many of the world’s largest projects across the Infrastructure and Oil & Gas sectors over the last 18 years. Over the last 7 years I have led large teams on behalf of Jacobs role as Delivery Partner on two of the UKs largest infrastructure projects working on the Thames Tideway Super Sewer and more recently the Lower Thames Crossing Road Project.
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Conversation Club is a broadcast series of linked discussions linked to EVA also takes place around the year. 1 hour Thursdays at 4. c.40 per annum. There is an archive of 60 recordings since October 2020. Attendees are invited to a free subscription. 1 hour CPD per broadcast.
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Want to talk? Get in touch and talk it over.
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Recent Conversations
Conversation Club s3, ep 4:
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Conversation Club s3, ep 2:
Admitting your project is in trouble Tony Welch
