The people behind delivery confidence.
We’re Coordinated Solutions. We lead projects, help organisations improve delivery and develop the people responsible for moving important work forward.
Our ambition is to give leaders confidence in the work they entrust to others, customers confidence in the people representing their project, and teams the support to carry responsibility well.
The Delivery Leadership System is the foundation of that work. The reason we built it starts with the experiences that brought us here.
It started with getting things flowing.
One of Kristian’s earliest memories of bringing people together involves a playground at Chatsworth, a group of children he had just met and a water system.
There were water wheels, channels and an Archimedes screw. Getting the water to flow meant working out how each part affected the next—and helping everyone work together.
He found himself moving between the different stations, suggesting adjustments and coordinating the effort. Taking the lead felt uncomfortable. Seeing what they could achieve together made it worthwhile.
Years later, he recognised something familiar in the projects he was drawn to: separate parts that needed to connect, people seeing different pieces of the picture, and progress depending on how well they worked together.
That curiosity about people and the work between them has stayed with him.
Different backgrounds.
A shared sense of responsibility.
Kristian Harris
Founder
I’ve spent more than 15 years in project and programme delivery. The work has taught me how much trust sits behind the responsibility to lead.
When someone asks you to represent their business, they are putting relationships and commitments in your hands. I take that personally.
Starting my own business made that responsibility even clearer. I wanted to build an organisation where care for the customer, sound judgement and commercial understanding were part of how everyone worked.
That remains my focus: bringing good people together and giving them a foundation they can rely on.
Amie Caldwell
Head of Training & Capability
My nursing background taught me to pay attention to the person behind the immediate situation. How they are feeling, what they understand and what they might be finding difficult to say.
That perspective has stayed with me through leading teams and becoming involved in project delivery.
I care about how it feels to be given responsibility. People can be trusted with important work while still needing space to ask questions, develop confidence and learn how to handle difficult moments.
At Coordinated Solutions, I bring that understanding into how we help people develop. I want learning to feel relevant, supportive and useful when they return to their work.
Experience worth building on.
As Coordinated Solutions developed, we wanted the lessons from our work to become something other people could use.
That meant examining the judgement behind good delivery: what an experienced leader notices, the questions they ask, how they interpret a difficult conversation and when they decide to act.
We brought that experience together with thinking from psychology, behavioural science and leadership to develop the Delivery Leadership System.
DLS gives our work a shared foundation.
It helps us develop people, support our project leaders and connect each engagement to the wider capability of the organisation.
Our three services are ways of putting that foundation into practice:
One foundation. Applied through our work.
Treat trust as a responsibility
How we listen, follow through and handle difficult news affects the confidence people place in us. We want customers and colleagues to feel that their concerns have been understood and their commitments taken seriously.
Stay curious before drawing conclusions
Every organisation has its own history, pressures and relationships. We make time to understand those things and hear from people with different perspectives before deciding what needs to change.
Make what we learn useful to others
The value of experience grows when it can be shared. We want our work to help people develop their judgement, strengthen relationships and feel better equipped for the next challenge.
These are the standards we want to build the business around—and be held accountable to as we grow.
A home for
what comes next.
Opening our office at The Moorings in Chesterfield was an important step in building that business.
We wanted somewhere our project leaders could spend time together, customers could get to know us and people attending training could step away from their everyday demands.
The space reflects how we want people to feel when they work with us: welcome, comfortable and able to talk openly.
It gives us a place to develop DLS, exchange ideas and bring more people into the work we’re building.
Our longer-term ambition is for good project leadership to become something organisations can develop and sustain. We want to help build stronger teams, lasting customer relationships and greater confidence in what people can achieve together.
The Moorings is our home for that next chapter.
The story behind our office
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If you’d like to talk about your organisation, meet the people behind our work or visit the office, we’d be pleased to hear from you.
There’s room for a coffee and a conversation.
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