Heather Buchanan

Background

About Heather Buchanan

Strategic, servant-minded leader with a proven track record of empowering individuals, fostering professional growth, and building trusted relationships across all levels of an organization. Over the course of my career, I have successfully progressed through various roles including Systems Developer, Manager and Director, gaining deep technical expertise while evolving into a strategic, people-focused leader. This journey has equipped me with a unique blend of technical acumen, business insight, and leadership capability. I am passionate about creating inclusive, high-performing environments where teams feel supported, valued, and motivated to achieve their full potential. My leadership approach is grounded in empathy, accountability, and a commitment to helping others thrive - because I believe that when people grow, organizations succeed. These values have enabled me to build collaborative teams, drive complex initiatives, and align project delivery with long-term organizational goals. Strengths-Team building and management -Introducing, implementing and improving project management methodologies and best practices -Mentorship/coaching for project management, agile methodologies, personal growth -Decision-making -Building relationships and trust Skills and experience-establishing PMO in growing businesses -project management methodologies and best practices -portfolio/program management -communication, problem solving and encouraging compromise -Agile and Scrum methodologies and processes -strategic planning -vendor management -organizational change management -project change management -identifying and assessing risk -resource management -portfolio/project documentation and control -planning and estimating -requirements gathering and business analysis -web and systems development