Cogenic is all about clear thinking.

Cogenic was formed in 2007 to specialize in helping clients to manage change successfully through project and programme management. The business was the brainchild of Kevin Parry, and experienced senior manager whose background included business transformation and IT-enabled business change in telecommunications and IT services.

Kevin and his colleagues believed in a different kind of consulting business, one which was based on deep experience but also on research and close alignment with professional bodies and universities who are pioneering the programme management discipline. They wanted to work in partnership with clients, to facilitate change and transfer knowledge not as gurus with a prescribed formula. For this reason, Cogenic is a truly independent consultancy, not based on a single doctrine or methodology but offering support, advice and tools to manage risk and maximise the benefits from investment in project portfolios.

Fundamentally, we believe that projects and programmes require leadership. Both the leadership of the project or programme sponsor to empower and enable the project or programme manager, and the leadership of project and programme managers to inspire, motivate and direct, cross-functional teams.

Projects and programmes are our business and whether our clients are applying project management to product management, software development, business change, mergers, joint ventures and acquisitions or entering new markets, we can help. Our clients like our open, pragmatic approach and our focus on sustainable change which leaves new capabilities and confidence after we leave. For more information on how we can help you, please contact us on 0800 680 0729 or use the form above.

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Kevin Parry, the founder of Cogenic, is a member of the APM Regional Committee and has written articles for the APM on managing change and working accross cultures.

The Cogenic Consulting Leadership Team

Kevin Parry, Managing Director

Cogenic founder Kevin Parry is an expert in programme management, transformation design and change. He trained as a Programme Director and Change Leader in BT plc, where he led a range of major investment projects and programmes. His work has included joint venture creation in Germany, India, France and Ireland, sale of businesses in France and the UK as well as major strategic change as part of the 21st Century Network Programme in BT.

Kevin has post-graduate education in Strategy, Finance and Change Leadership from Oxford University, Ashridge Business School and Henley Management College. He holds a Diploma in Management from Leicester University and a Diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors. He is a Fellow of the IoD and a member of the Regional Committee of the Association for Project Management in addition to being an MSP Practitioner. Kevin is a frequent writer and conference speaker on managing change.

Ian Sturgess, Project Consultant and leadership coach

Ian has both public and private sector experience in project and programme management; business analysis; change management; team building; training and coaching. He holds an honours degree in electrical engineering, is an MSP Practitioner and delivers leadership development programmes for the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL).

Ian's experience includes West Midlands Police, The Home Office, Energis (now Cable & Wireless) and the Ministry of Defence. He is an experienced; project and programme manager, trainer, and coach with strong team selection and communications skills.

Ian also teaches at the National School of Government (NSG) and for local government organisations and is a Microsoft Accredited Project Server 2007 consultant.

Philip Smelt, Associate Consultant

Philip is an MSP, MoR & PRINCE2 Practitioner with over 20 year’s broad business, public sector, software development and MoD/DTI exposure; with extensive experience of working from concept/bid through to application integration and full implementation rollout, including infrastructure migration. An active member of the Association for Project Management (APM), Philip has been Chairman of APM’s Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire branch since 2008. Philip has a research masters degree and post-graduate qualifications in systems thinking and the management of change. Philip’s work on technology projects has taken him from Lithuania to Siberia and from Grenoble to Tokyo.

As a ‘hands-on’ project manager, Philip has also undertaken work for a Westland Helicopters Computer Based Training sub-contractor, leading teams in the production of multi-screen Computer Aided Instruction and Emulation Systems for several overseas navies. He has also delivered multi-million pound Control room projects for a ‘bluelight’ company specializing in Integrated Communications Control Systems. Philip therefore understands, from first hand experience, the complexities and dependencies that are often overlooked in projects.

Philip is a "PMForum" & "PM World Today" correspondent and regularly writes on project management and frequently speaks at conferences on managing technological change.

Charles Cross

Charles is skilled at working with management teams to set up complex programmes of change and to provide effective frameworks for managing projects and assuring success.

Charles has over 20 years experience of programme and project management  in which he has performed all of the main roles from senior user to chair of project boards. He was, until late 2009, the Head of Programme and Project Management at the Department of Health where he built a Centre of Expertise from scratch and worked on a significant number of important programmes.

Prior to working in government, Charles worked as an independent consultant, and interim manager. He has also held various senior management appointments in the oil and gas industries. Charles is a Member of the Association for Project Management, a Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) practitioner, a Management of Risk (M_o_R) practitioner and is skilled in the application of the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) toolset.