Seamus Woods
Dublin, Ireland


Health Service Executive
Institute of Project Management
Seamus Woods, IPMA-A, PMP is an Assistant National Director (Senior Portfolio Manager) in the Irish Health Service Executive and is also a faculty member of the Irish Institute of Project Management. He has over 29 years of experience at Senior Management level within the Health Services and more than 25 years’ experience of project 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 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.
Seamus can be contacted at seamus.woods@gmail.com
Articles and Papers
- A Step in the Right Direction for the Health and Wellbeing of the Mid West 2018: A Portfolio Management and Benefits approach to improving the Health and Wellbeing of people living in the Mid West of Ireland - Case Study - Woods - September 2018
- Strategic Portfolio Management in the Irish Public Health Service - Case Studies - Woods - November 2015