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Proactive Project Services combines straightforward project management with top-notch know how and clear framework.

The result?

Projects that are effective, efficient and result-driven = Happy clients

Who are Proactive Project Services?

Proactive Project Services was founded by Simon Dodd. His goal was to create a company that truly understood and met the project management needs of businesses to deliver projects seamlessly from initiation to closure. He offers a professional, personal, and considered approach to project management with a drive to manage projects with increased efficiency, reduced costs, and with clear results.

Proactive Project Services establish processes and structures to confidently, visibly and transparently meet stakeholder’s requirements.

Based in Wellington, New Zealand. Proactive Project Services works with clients worldwide.

Simon Dodd, Founder

Project professional, horologist enthusiast, go-getter and calculated risk taker. Simon is a ‘boots all in’ kinda guy, right from the moment of leaving his hometown of Manchester in 2010 with a suitcase and a goal to live and work in New Zealand. Since then he has successfully worked across sectors in both government and private business project manager roles.

His versatile skills in managing projects and people range from roles in Government; Department of Conservation (DOC), Department of Corrections, Inland Revenue Department (IRD), Ministry of Social Development (MSD), Oranga Tamariki, IT Service Providers; Hewlett Packard (HP), NEC, Orange Business Services, Social Welfare; Regenerate Magazine, Business; Timeless Luxury (Founder).

SImon has established Proactive Project Services to fill what he believes is a real need in business; project management aligned to business strategy and effective resource utilisation.

Why Proactive Project Services are different

Effective project management is a real skill, when things go wrong, they REALLY go wrong. Time and time again the same issues with projects being delivered appear. Frustrations with unhappy stakeholders, team members out of their depth, overly complicated processes and projects under-resourced and unaligned with business goals.

Messy, frustrating, expensive and inefficient.

A real breath of fresh air.

We resource plan to ensure you have the elements of the project sorted BEFORE the project starts.

Project managers are available for a whole or part of a project. We work with your budget to ensure your goals are efficiently met.

Coaching and mentoring to invest in YOUR people. Ensuring IP and specific business knowledge is supported and retained.

Simon Dodd and Proactive Project Services are efficient, pragmatic and flexible in their approach to quickly identify and meet your project management requirements.

proactive project services are:

Approachable

Friendly and here to help with even your trickiest project management issues.

Experienced

Over many years in project management, we’ve seen and managed it all – from the most basic through to incredibly complex issues.

Expertise

We have the know-how to manage your project management needs, so you can focus on running your business.

Open

We tailor our solutions to YOUR specific needs.

Flexible

Our customised solutions work for businesses from SMEs right through to large government or corporate entities with a focus on IT and business/business transformations.

Committed

We invest the time required to understand your business goals and provide you with solutions that help you grow.

Knowledgeable

We have been doing this a good long while. We know ‘best practice’ methods and have solutions to fix problems.

Simon worked on a project that was complex, had a broad scope and high ambiguity, but he still kept his focus on delivery. He was very effective in engaging stakeholders to ensure their needs are well managed.

Clarence U

Programme Manager at Corrections

I worked with Simon whilst I was helping him to run Regenerate Magazine. I found Simon to be a very hard working, trustworthy individual who always had the sellers best interests at heart. He often went above and beyond to help the sellers through any of the personal issues they may be experiencing. He was extremely professional and dedicated to managing the entire operation.

Dr. Adam Ward

Head Of Finance at Regenerate Magazine

“While Simon and I worked briefly in the same company, he left a lasting impression with his professionalism and ways of handling the team. For a team which was struggling to work as a cohesive unit, from the outset Simon was focused on aligning his team to understand the goals, enable healthy discussions and give them clear objectives. He often quotes his mantra to be “get shit done!”, which he achieves by forming deep relationships with his team, facilitating action rather than just talks.

He is a seasoned project manager, and I will highly recommend him for strategic and mission critical projects”.

Vishal Tandon

Senior Project Manager at Vital Ltd