Seamus Woods
Mid-West, Ireland
Health Service Executive
Institute of Project Management
Seamus Woods, IPMA-A, PMP is Project/Portfolio Consultant and former Head of Portfolio Management across the Irish Health Services. He is a faculty member of the Irish Institute of Project Management and has over 30 years of experience at Senior Management level within the Health Services and more than 27 years’ experience of project/portfolio management and change management as a practitioner, instructor and leader.
Working initially in the former Mid-Western Health Board, he held senior roles at Board, Strategic and operational levels across a range of services. With the advent of the new health Service Executive in 2004 Seamus set up and led a national projects office for the community services sector.
In 2010 he was seconded to Children services as Head of Change Management to programme manage the setting up of a new National Children’s Agency (TUSLA) and its associated Reform programme. He returned to the Health Service Executive in 2013 as Head of Portfolio Management for the Health Reform Programme and subsequently was Chair of the National PMO Leads Group overseeing the roll out of local PMO offices.
Seamus can be contacted at seamus.woods@gmail.com