28. Level Up your Career

Louisa Leung is a Managing Partner at Lifting Lanterns where she is a coach, mentor, consultant, expert, trainer and speaker in the Project Delivery space. She has previously been in roles like the National Head of Consulting Services and has successfully set up multiple Project Management Offices (PMOs) and implemented Agile frameworks for the likes of PwC, NBNCo, Sydney Water and Dimension Data. She has spent many years in senior managerial roles rolling out organisational change with valuable experience from both technical and non-technical aspects of IT in a variety of private and public sector organisations. She is a recognised guest speaker at forums such as PMI, IIBA, itSMF, meetups and many universities.

What’s your proudest achievement?

Being able to run a business whilst still being a proud mother of two little boys! Able to practice what I preach by applying Agile, Change, Project Management and Facilitation to my daily life.

Dublin, Ireland

Currently contracted as European Change Lead for Canada Life Services on their IFRS 17 Program. With over twenty-five years’ experience in consulting and running my own businesses, I have travelled and worked extensively throughout Africa, Europe as well as the USA. With a proven track record of driving business growth, delivering transformational and IT change, I have successfully led high performance teams in delivering complex digitisation and business improvement initiatives into banking, insurance, petrochemical, mining, higher education, and local government entities.

Nick's proudest achievement: Launching great kids into the world successfully.

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My current role is as a Technology Lead within Netcampus, providing leadership and management of the portfolio of service management products, across the full product lifecycle. I also enjoy delivering high-quality training delivery within my role.

Service management expertise has been a natural evolution from my years in the support field, growing from tech to a driven contributor to the organization, understanding its inner workings, on top of the pure Microsoft tech I was at the time. I went from tech support to Sales within IBM and later transformed that experience into the IT training industry.

I was awarded ITSM trainer of the Year (ITSMF SA), at SMEXA in 2013. Expanding the knowledge and seeing the impact that it has on the careers of course participants is still the proudest part of my day, week, or year. Alongside seeing my growth is truly amazing, I recall the first time I was in training, my personal journey of progression has been tremendous.

Paul is Senior Trainer and Lead Consultant for Project Results, a training organisation accredited with APMG and AXELOS which Paul owns and operates.

Paul's focus is on helping people and organisations develop effective business cases, run effective projects and programmes, make the changes and realise the benefits at the end.

To do this Paul works with a wide range of people and organisations with training, coaching, consulting and hands-on delivery. Paul combines an in-depth process knowledge with 30 years of pragmatic hands-on experience in all of these areas. Paul is an accredited trainer in a wide range of products including AgilePM, Better Business Cases, Managing Benefits, Change Management and a range of other PPM methods.

For the past 11 years Paul has been on the organising committee for “the Project Community”. This industry group is intended as an idea sharing and capability building forum for the users Business Case, Project, Programme and Portfolio approaches.

Paul is a regular speaker for PMI in New Zealand

Paul lists his proudest achievement as being able to work with, train and develop thousands of people in building their capability across New Zealand and the wider Oceania region.

Tina makes an enormous difference to young lives. She manages a team that supports the mental health and wellbeing of children, young people and families in Jersey. The team delivers 1-1 therapeutic support, targeted group support, psycho education and training in order to raise awareness and reduce stigma of mental health and wellbeing needs.

Her work draws upon her experience in consulting and working for local government, schools, colleges, within the voluntary and private sector to drive a wellbeing agenda. She believes passionately in enabling empowerment, emotional literacy, and the promotion of self care and good mental health and wellbeing to enable flourishing.

Tina was awarded the Leaders in Wellbeing Award 2019, and will be appearing in 'The Kindness Advantage for Leadership' to be published in early 2022.

Her proudest work achievement was a project with the local construction industry and FE college to create a mental health and wellbeing module to be delivered within the heath and safety unit for all construction students in order to improve the mental health support in the industry.