Your organisation is navigating complex change. Timelines are tight, stakeholders are watching, and the cost of getting it wrong is high. Keren Peterson embeds directly into your team — bringing over a decade of programme leadership to keep things on time, on budget, and in scope.
Bringing in an external programme manager can feel like a risk. My priority is always to make sure your team feels supported, not threatened — and your organisation stronger long after I have gone.
Keren Peterson is a programme and project consultant with over a decade of experience leading complex cyber and technology change across enterprise environments. Since 2014, she has grown from delivering IT and business change projects into leading multimillion-pound programmes that strengthen security, modernise infrastructure, and align with business strategy.
She understands that every organisation is different — its culture, its pressures, its people. When Keren joins a programme, she does not just bring structure. She integrates. She listens first, aligns with your team's way of working, and introduces the rigour and clarity that complex delivery demands — without disrupting what is already working.
Her work spans cybersecurity transformation, technology infrastructure and change at scale across government, financial services and healthcare. She is passionate about ensuring that cyber security and technology work hand in hand to deliver tangible, lasting business value.
Stakeholder management is critical to a project's success. Keren works as a natural extension of your team — aligning her methods with your culture, introducing best practices that enhance outcomes, and making sure every stakeholder knows where things stand. What works for the project will work for your people.
Every engagement begins with listening. Keren takes the time to understand your organisation's specific dynamics — its culture, its pressures, its people — before any plan is drawn up. Clear objectives, agreed success criteria and governance structures are established from day one. No assumptions. No ambiguity.
Keren integrates seamlessly into existing teams — bringing not just technical expertise but the soft skills needed to navigate your organisation's dynamics. She understands that teams can feel unsettled by an external resource. Her focus is always to keep your people empowered, aligned and confident throughout delivery.
A programme closes successfully when your team is ready to own what has been built — and confident they can sustain it. Keren ensures clean handovers, documented outcomes and knowledge transfer that lasts. Your organisation will be stronger long after this engagement ends.
A selection of programmes Keren has led across government, financial services and healthcare. Each one presented a different set of challenges — tight timelines, complex stakeholder landscapes, or programmes in need of rescue. Confidentiality is respected as standard. Full details available on request.
A central government health body needed to fundamentally strengthen its security posture — across PAM, network segmentation, asset management, vulnerability management and shadow IT — without disrupting critical operations. Keren led the full £8.5m programme from initiation to close, embedding secure-by-design principles and ISO 27001 alignment throughout. Delivered on time, within budget, with full organisational buy-in.
A global financial institution required the delivery of a $7m technology programme spanning multiple workstreams — data encryption, secure device decommissioning, firewall management, network infrastructure, cabling and enterprise-wide AV solutions. Working across a complex vendor landscape and tight security requirements, Keren coordinated delivery across all workstreams, keeping the programme on track and stakeholders informed at every stage.
Implementing new clinical systems in a live NHS environment means one thing above all others: staff and patients must not feel the disruption. Over a 3+ year tenure, Keren led the implementation of complex clinical applications, WiFi infrastructure and network security across NHS estates — coordinating UAT, managing RAID logs, and maintaining transparent reporting to NHS leadership throughout. Operations continued. Systems improved.
Engaged as consultant project manager at one of the UK's leading ATM network operators — a subsidiary of Brink's, the global security and logistics company. Bringing senior PM structure and governance to a fast-moving, security-critical environment.
Led development of project plans and oversaw configuration, installation and commissioning of LIMS managed systems within NHS clinical environments. Operated at senior PM level, maintaining rigorous standards in a complex, regulated setting.
A foundation built across IT infrastructure delivery, business analysis and project coordination — including requirements analysis, user story creation, workshop facilitation and RAID log management. The grounding from which a decade of programme leadership has grown.
Project details are presented with client confidentiality in mind. Full case studies and references are available on request.
The measure of a programme manager is not only whether she delivers — it's how she makes an organisation feel in the process. These are the words of those who have worked alongside Keren.
Keren brought immediate structure and calm to a programme that was under real pressure. Her ability to rebuild stakeholder confidence while keeping delivery moving was exceptional. She is the kind of programme manager you want in the room when things are difficult.
What sets Keren apart is her ability to translate complex cybersecurity requirements into a delivery plan that non-technical stakeholders can actually engage with. She holds both worlds fluently — and that is genuinely rare.
Keren operated with real professionalism throughout. She understood the environment, earned the trust of clinical and technical teams alike, and delivered to a standard that exceeded expectations. I would not hesitate to work with her again.
Keren speaks with the authority of someone who has led programmes worth millions of pounds — and the generosity of someone who believes that knowledge should be shared. She is a regular contributor to conversations about project delivery within cybersecurity, career progression in tech and the importance of diverse voices in the project management profession.
She is particularly passionate about those from underrepresented backgrounds finding their footing in cybersecurity and technology. Her story is one of discipline, growth and quiet excellence — and she tells it honestly.
A foundation of formal qualification, backed by over a decade of delivery at the highest level across government, financial services and healthcare.
Your programme is important. Whether it is a cybersecurity transformation that needs senior leadership, a critical delivery that has lost momentum, or a contract that requires a security cleared professional — the right programme manager makes all the difference.
Every conversation starts with listening. Keren will take the time to understand your situation before anything else. If there is a fit, engagements can typically begin within 2–4 weeks.