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Complex Project Leadership

With a strong track record in leadership development, AMBS helps organisations build the skills needed to deliver projects in uncertain and challenging environments. We go beyond traditional project management, equipping leaders to navigate shifting priorities, diverse stakeholders, and limited resources, while keeping teams aligned and outcomes on track.

We prepare leaders to navigate complexity with confidence.

Leveraging extensive experience in executive education and MSc / MBA teaching, we blend strategic thinking, practical tools, and hands-on learning to help participants solve problems, navigate uncertainty, and deliver results in high-stakes environments.

WATCH: Eunice Maytorena-Sanchez on rethinking leadership in major projects

Academic expertise

Leadership and management development

Governance and accountability

Risk management

Stakeholder engagement

Strategy and innovation

Systems complexity

Our people: Complex Project Leadership

Eunice Maytorena-Sanchez

Eunice Maytorena-Sanchez

Professor in Project Management
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Graham Winch

Graham Winch

Professor of Project Management
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Robin Martin

Robin Martin

Professor of Organisational Psychology
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John Mccormack

John Mccormack

Senior Lecturer in Project Management
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Sheena Johnson

Sheena Johnson

Professor of Work Psychology and Wellbeing
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Mark Healey, Head of the Division of Innovation, Management and Policy at AMBS

Mark Healey

Professor of Strategic Management
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Jas Kalra

Jas Kalra

Senior Lecturer in Operations Management
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Courtney Owens

Courtney Owens

Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Management
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Elinor O'Connor

Elinor O'Connor

Professor of Work Psychology
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Sharon Clarke

Sharon Clarke

Professor of Organisational Psychology
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Geoffrey Thomas

Geoffrey Thomas

Professor of Organisational Psychology
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Nathan Proudlove

Nathan Proudlove

Senior Lecturer in operational research
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AMBS have been the perfect partner, furthering our thinking with first-class insights, and developing a cadre of Sponsors who are ready to lead the projects that will realise our long-term goals.

Nick Sharpe, Project and Programme Development Specialist, National Trust

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