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Your programme.
My ownership.
Delivered.

I'm Elisabeth Butler. I run entire IT programmes
for organisations that need serious delivery. 10+ project types,
teams of 30+, budgets, vendors, governance. The full picture, handled.

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Libby is an effective and efficient PM and certainly makes it happen. She is courteous, collegiate, inclusive, and charming to boot. I feel she has the strategic grasp which is not granted to every PM.
Senior Stakeholder, National Heritage Programme
Elisabeth Butler, Senior IT Programme Manager
5+ Years Delivering
10+ Project Types
30+ Team Size
About me

I run your entire
IT programme. End to end.

Call me Libby. I've spent 5 years running large-scale IT programmes for complex organisations, from networks and cloud full infrastructure install to, digitisation, cybersecurity, and everything in between. I now work independently because I got tired of watching organisations pay top rates to agencies while the people doing the actual work saw a fraction of it. So I cut out the middleman.

When you hire me, you get the person who actually does the work. I manage the full programme infrastructure: planning, budgets, risk, governance, vendors, change management, stakeholder comms, and technical oversight. I coordinate teams of 30+ across technical, vendor, and internal resource. No layers of account managers between you and your delivery.

I have run a host of IT projects, including but not limited to, infrastructure rollouts, data migrations, software implementations, digital transformation, decommissioning and compliance programmes. If your programme needs someone who has genuinely come across all project challenges and overcome them, let's talk.

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What I deliver

The full programme
infrastructure.

I don't just manage tasks. I own the entire delivery framework: planning, budgets, risk, vendors, teams, governance, and handover. Here's what that looks like.

Programme Governance

Steering groups, RAID logs, board packs, escalation paths, decision logs, and change control. The structure that keeps complex programmes on track.

Planning & Scheduling

Master programme plans, dependency mapping, critical path analysis, milestone tracking across 10+ workstreams. Not just a Gantt chart, a real delivery engine.

Budget & Commercial

CAPEX and OPEX tracking, forecasting, PO management, supplier invoicing, and variance reporting. Your money, accounted for properly.

Vendor & Contract Management

RFP and ITT processes, contract negotiation, SLA management, performance reviews, and supplier governance. I hold vendors to account so you don't have to.

Stakeholder Management

C-suite, trustees, curators, site managers, external suppliers, regulators. I manage relationships at every level and keep everyone aligned.

Risk, Change & Benefits

Risk registers, mitigation plans, change impact assessments, training sign-off, go-live communications, post-implementation reviews, and KPI tracking.

A rare specialism

When the project
is already on fire.

Most project managers join at the start and hope for the best. I have built a career on being the person organisations call when delivery has already gone wrong. Stalled programmes, broken supplier relationships, teams pulling in different directions, and stakeholders who have lost all confidence. That is exactly where I thrive.

It takes a different kind of project management. Rapid diagnosis, uncomfortable honesty, credibility earned quickly and then relentless execution until the work is done. I have done this more times than I can count, across sectors and at scale.

Read the real situation

A rapid, unvarnished assessment of what is actually broken: technical issues, relationship breakdowns, structural problems. And what it will genuinely take to fix it.

Rebuild confidence

Credibility with boards, sponsors and teams, built through transparency, consistency and early wins that show the programme is back in grip.

Create a plan people believe in

Honest, agreed and actually deliverable. Not just aspirational. Accountable.

Drive through to the end

Sustained focus through to completion and a proper BAU handover. Not just a go-live and a wave goodbye.

Client engagements

Results for
real clients.

Client details presented at an appropriate level of confidentiality. The outcomes are real.

Heritage & Public Sector

A Stalled Website Build Nobody Could Unblock with a Looming Deadline

A major national organisation had a heritage event website that had ground to a halt. Resources lost, subject matter experts departed, ever changing scope, multiple suppliers with no single point of control, and no clear path forward. They brought me in to take ownership and get it moving. I aligned all five teams, restructured the supplier relationships, and delivered the website in time for the event. Project benefits realised in the first annual event on the new platform.

Website delivered on time 5 teams aligned Supplier relationships restructured Benefits realised at first event
Technology & Vendor Management

A Supplier Relationship That Had Completely Broken Down

A client had a critical third-party engagement where delivery had collapsed and the relationship was toxic. Nothing was getting done, blame was going back and forth, and the contract was heading toward termination. I stepped in, rebuilt trust on both sides, renegotiated the scope and timeline, and got delivery moving again within weeks.

Relationship rebuilt Contract renegotiated Delivery restarted
Enterprise Cross-Functional

Five Directorates, Zero Alignment, One Deadline

A large enterprise had a programme that spanned five directorates, each with completely different priorities and no shared governance. Stakeholders had lost confidence that IT could deliver anything. I put proper governance in place, got all five teams rowing in the same direction, and brought the programme in on time despite limited resources.

All teams aligned Governance established Delivered on deadline Stakeholder confidence restored
Client feedback

What my clients
say about me.

"Elisabeth's ability to keep focus on the bigger picture, whilst the rest of us were bogged down in the detail, was critical in keeping the project on track and within scope."

Heritage and Culture Officer National Heritage Organisation

"Elisabeth stepped into a programme that was in serious difficulty and turned it around. She built credibility quickly across all levels and drove delivery with real discipline and professionalism."

Programme Sponsor Enterprise IT Programme

"Coming into a project half way through is not easy. Libby quickly gave clarity and structure. She drove the project forward very proactively."

Head of Learning and Development National Heritage Organisation

"Elisabeth was our 3rd PM and jumped straight into the challenge we faced. Get up to speed quickly and effectively manage the project, despite a difficult relationship with our supplier. The fact we were able to deliver the project on time displayed your key characteristics of patience and perseverance."

Head of Visitor Programming National Heritage Organisation
Get in touch

Let's talk about
your project.

Whether you need a senior programme manager for a new engagement, someone to step into a difficult situation and turn it around, or you simply want to explore how I could help. Use the form and I will come back to you personally.

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