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Coordinated Solutions
Where project management stops. Project leadership starts.
Why does project delivery feel harder than it should?
We provide experienced project leaders, help organisations understand and resolve problems with their projects, and train people to lead projects with confidence. All three services use the Delivery Leadership System, our approach to leading projects.
Three ways to strengthen project delivery
Different situations need different kinds of support. Start with the one that feels closest to where your delivery pressure is showing up.
When Project Delivery pressure is already here
Project Leadership as a Service
From £800 + VAT per day
Explore Project Leadership as a ServiceExperienced project leaders who step into live customer delivery and take responsibility for how the work is led.
Use this when delivery capacity is stretched, a project needs to start quickly, or you need someone who can represent your organisation well in front of the customer.
Best when
- A large deal has landed and delivery needs to start quickly
- A project manager has become unavailable
- Several customer projects are moving at once
- You need trusted leadership in front of your customer
When Project Delivery feels harder than it should
The Delivery Reset
Phase 1 from £7,500 + VAT
Explore Delivery ResetA structured way to understand how delivery is really working, where pressure is building, and what needs to change.
Use this when projects are active but do not feel fully under control. The Delivery Reset looks across people, culture and how projects are delivered day to day, then turns that into a clear Insight Report and Plan.
Best when
- Leaders are closer to delivery than they want to be
- Projects are moving, but progress is hard to see
- Ownership and priorities are unclear
- You need to understand the real issue before changing the wrong thing
When capable people are carrying Project Delivery
The Project Leader Mindset
Project Leadership Essentials: £495 + VAT per person
Explore The Project Leader MindsetPractical learning for people leading projects alongside their role, and project managers ready to strengthen how they apply their knowledge.
Develop judgement, communication and confidence through two courses built around Self, Relationships and Productivity.
Two project leadership courses
- Project Leadership Essentials , one day, in person
- From Qualification to Confident Leadership , three days, in development
- Scheduled places and private team options
The foundation of our work
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Good project delivery often comes down to experience.
The problem is, experience isn’t consistent.
The Delivery Leadership System captures how strong project leaders think and operate,
then turns that thinking into a consistent way to lead projects, reset delivery environments, and build capability inside teams.
At the core of this system are three pillars:
Clarity. Traction. Transformation.
Learn more about DLSClarity
Understand the situation, assumptions and pressures before deciding how to respond.
Traction
Turn understanding into clear decisions, ownership and progress.
Transformation
Learn from delivery and improve how future work happens.
Experience in practice
Teams we’ve worked with see real change
From stabilising pressured projects to improving how teams work together, we help organisations move from reacting to problems to leading projects with confidence.
See how we’ve helped
Project Leadership as a Service
Leading NetApp’s transition to a new business system
Delivering senior project leadership to support NetApp, a global data infrastructure company, through the planning, 24/7 cutover and stabilisation phases of its ERP migration.
Read the case study
The Project Leader Mindset
Helping NSAN manage workloads and plan projects together
Delivering The Project Manager Mindset in response to insights from The Delivery Reset, equipping teams with practical tools across Self, Relationships and Productivity to reduce overcommitment, strengthen communication and build a shared approach to project delivery.
Read the case studyWhy delivery matters
Project delivery is where strategy becomes real
Turning strategy into results depends on delivering projects well.
A new platform, a customer rollout, a service change, a growth plan, or an internal improvement that is meant to make the business better.
That is when the idea becomes real work. Time gets spent. Money gets committed. People give it their attention, and customers or colleagues start expecting things to change.
The risk is that project delivery often carries the ambition without being given the leadership environment to match it.
Capable people get involved. Meetings happen. Updates are shared. Work moves.
Then the strain starts to show. Decisions take longer than expected. Priorities compete. Dependencies are assumed rather than checked. Progress starts to depend on who is available, who pushes hardest, and who is willing to absorb the pressure.
That is when delivery starts costing more than it should.
01
The Project starts to slow
Projects rarely slow down in one obvious moment. They slow through delayed decisions, unclear next steps, missed handovers, and small assumptions that no one checks early enough.
Progress still happens, but it takes more effort to get the same movement.
02
Confidence starts to thin out
There may still be meetings, updates and action logs, but leaders begin to question whether the right things are really moving.
The project is active, but confidence in the route, the pace, or the outcome starts to weaken.
03
Pressure lands on the people who will carry it
When delivery is unclear, the weight moves to the people most willing to pick it up.
Senior leaders get dragged into the detail. Capable people work around gaps. The project keeps moving, but too much depends on individual effort.
Why Coordinated Solutions
Built to make strong project leadership more consistent
Coordinated Solutions grew out of experience delivering projects, where projects carried more than tasks and timelines.
They carried customer trust, commercial pressure, internal expectations, and the strategy behind the work.
We kept seeing the same issue in different forms. A project needed someone trusted to step in. A leadership team needed to understand why projects kept getting stuck. Capable people were being asked to move important work forward without the confidence, language or support to lead it well.
That shaped the business.
We make strong project leadership more consistent, so organisations can bring it into live projects, build it inside their teams, and stop relying on individual effort to hold delivery together.
Get to know Coordinated SolutionsA note from Kristian
Hello,
My name is Kristian, and I am the founder of Coordinated Solutions.
I have spent most of my career in and around project delivery however, starting a business changed how I understood it.
When you are responsible for winning work, keeping customers, protecting margin and making decisions without a perfect picture, projects stop feeling like a set of tasks to manage. You start to see what sits around the project. The trust you are trying to protect. The pressure people are carrying. The decisions that need to land at the right time. The commercial reality behind the plan.
That view has shaped Coordinated Solutions.
I care about project delivery because it is where strategy becomes something people actually have to do. A leadership team can agree the direction, approve the spend and set the ambition, but the business only moves when that thinking turns into action. That is usually where things become more complicated than they looked at the start.
The parts that interest me most are often the parts that do not show clearly in a project plan. How people behave when the pressure rises. How clearly they communicate when something feels uncomfortable. Whether assumptions are challenged early enough. Whether the project is still connected to the outcome it was meant to deliver.
I have seen good people work incredibly hard and still find delivery harder than it should be. I have also seen projects improve quickly when the leadership around the project becomes clearer.
That is why Coordinated Solutions has been built around project leadership, rather than project management alone.
We help organisations turn important work into delivery that moves with more clarity, better judgement and less reliance on individual effort holding everything together.
That might mean bringing in project leadership when delivery pressure is already there. It might mean helping a leadership team understand why delivery keeps getting stuck. It might mean supporting capable people who are being asked to lead work without ever being properly taught how.
The work changes depending on the situation, but the belief behind it does not.
Project delivery deserves the same level of thought, care and leadership as the strategy it is there to deliver.
Kristian Harris, Founder of Coordinated Solutions
Our home in Chesterfield
Come and meet us at The Moorings.
Our office at Unit 8, The Moorings overlooks Staveley Basin. It’s where we bring people together to talk through projects, work on delivery challenges and learn in person.
There’s space for a focused conversation and a comfortable spot for a coffee, with an occasional four-legged colleague making themselves at home.
Client meetings and visits are welcome by appointment.
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Still have questions?
What does Coordinated Solutions actually do?
We help organisations improve project delivery through stronger project leadership.
That can mean stepping into live projects, reviewing how delivery is working across the organisation, or helping teams build the confidence and judgement to lead work better themselves.
The common thread is project delivery. We help important work move with more clarity, better decisions and less reliance on individual effort holding everything together.
Are you a project management consultancy?
In part, but we see the work differently.
Traditional project management often focuses on plans, tasks, reporting and governance. Those things matter, but they are only part of delivery.
Our work focuses on the leadership around delivery: how ownership is held, how decisions are made, how people communicate under pressure, and how the work stays connected to the outcome it was meant to deliver.
How do your three services fit together?
Choose the support that fits your situation: an experienced project leader, a review of how projects run, or training for yourself or your team.
Project Leadership as a Service is for when you need trusted project leadership inside live delivery.
The Delivery Reset is for when delivery feels harder than it should and you need to understand what is really getting in the way.
The Project Leader Mindset is for when capable people are being asked to lead important work and need stronger skills, confidence and language around delivery.
Different starting points, same belief: project delivery needs to be led properly.
Where should we start?
Start with the situation you are in.
If delivery pressure is already here and work needs leading now, Project Leadership as a Service is usually the best fit.
If projects are moving but confidence is low, The Delivery Reset gives you a clearer view of what is really happening.
If your people are carrying project work alongside their day jobs, or want to put project management knowledge into practice, The Project Leader Mindset offers two courses to develop their confidence and judgement.
If you are unsure, we can talk it through and point you towards the right route.
What is the Delivery Leadership System?
The Delivery Leadership System is the thinking that sits behind all of our work.
It captures how strong delivery works in practice and turns that into a consistent way to lead projects, reset delivery environments and build capability inside teams.
It is built around three pillars: Clarity, Traction and Transformation.
Do we need to have a formal project management function already?
No.
Some clients already have project managers, PMOs or delivery teams. Others have important work being led by senior leaders, operational teams or people whose main job is not project delivery.
We can work with either situation. The starting point is understanding how delivery currently works and what kind of support would make the biggest difference.
Do you replace our existing project managers?
Usually, no.
We are not there to push people out or duplicate what already works. We can add leadership capacity where it is missing, support existing project managers, strengthen the delivery environment around them, or help teams build better ways of working.
If you already have good people in place, our role is often to help them operate with more clarity and support.
What types of organisations do you work with?
We work best with organisations where project delivery matters commercially or operationally.
That includes technology providers, managed service providers, education trusts, membership organisations, operational teams and organisations delivering change without a large formal project function.
The sector matters less than the situation. If important work is getting harder to move, we can usually help.
How do you usually engage with a new client?
It depends on the service.
For Project Leadership as a Service, we usually start by understanding the delivery pressure, the customer environment and the type of leadership needed.
For The Delivery Reset, we start with a defined discovery and insight phase.
For The Project Leader Mindset, we look at the audience, the delivery challenges they face and the behaviours or skills that need strengthening.
In all cases, the first step is a conversation about what is happening and what outcome you need.
How much does it cost?
The main starting points are:
Project Leadership as a Service starts from £800 + VAT per day.
The Delivery Reset Phase 1 starts from £7,500 + VAT.
Project Leadership Essentials is £495 + VAT per person for the one-day scheduled programme. Private team training starts from £4,250 + VAT.
Some work is fixed-scope and some depends on the level of support needed. We’ll agree the scope, fees and terms with you before work starts.
Start the conversation
Not sure where to start?
Tell us what is happening in your projects. We’ll help you work out whether you need delivery leadership, a reset or support to develop your people.
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