Mark Sutton
Programme Manager - Elections Directorate, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mark Sutton stepped up from Head of PMO to Programme Manage for the Electoral Integrity Programme from June 2023 until its closure in Spring 2025, with oversight of the first instance in MHCLG of closing a Goverrnment Major Projects Portfolio initiative.
Starting as a member of multi-disciplinary Royal Mail project teams in the 1980s, he has led increasingly complex and high-value projects and programmes at that and subsequent employer and client organisations.
As an ex-professional trainer and ex-consultant, he is passionate about using only proportionate P3M to manage change activity, and making project-delivery professionals who will go onto make project-delivery professionals of others. He has developed project, programme, portfolio and change management frameworks and developed centres of excellence to enable organisations to improve their approach to change delivery. Mark has achieved Government project-delivery profession Practitioner-level accreditation. He has conducted medium-risk Gate reviews on behalf of the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA).
Mark led a local community school-place campaign programme, and co-founded in 2013 the first secondary school in his district for 35 years (for his son – the business case), to date the single most rewarding application of his change management experience.
Starting as a member of multi-disciplinary Royal Mail project teams in the 1980s, he has led increasingly complex and high-value projects and programmes at that and subsequent employer and client organisations.
As an ex-professional trainer and ex-consultant, he is passionate about using only proportionate P3M to manage change activity, and making project-delivery professionals who will go onto make project-delivery professionals of others. He has developed project, programme, portfolio and change management frameworks and developed centres of excellence to enable organisations to improve their approach to change delivery. Mark has achieved Government project-delivery profession Practitioner-level accreditation. He has conducted medium-risk Gate reviews on behalf of the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA).
Mark led a local community school-place campaign programme, and co-founded in 2013 the first secondary school in his district for 35 years (for his son – the business case), to date the single most rewarding application of his change management experience.