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Former Shell Project Leadership · Global Industrial Experience

Recipes for Successful Project Delivery in the Real World

Proven approaches, practical tools, and decades of experience helping organizations deliver better projects.

25+ Years Industrial Experience
€5B+ Projects Delivered
Global Project Leadership
Shell Senior Project Roles

Consultancy & Training

Practical support and capability development grounded in real-world project experience — not theory.

Consultancy

From Project Development to Execution

We provide practical, experience-based consultancy from early project development through robust project definition to execution, helping teams manage risk throughout the project lifecycle and deliver successful capital projects.

Our support is built on real-world project experience and focused on the challenges that matter to your project.

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Training

Practical Training for Real-World Projects

We don't teach project management from a textbook. For every concept we teach, we have a real project story that shows what it means in practice.

Ten integrated learning modules provide a structured framework for developing stronger project management capabilities, shaped around the challenges and context of the participants.

About

Bridging Engineering, Projects & People

With over 25 years of experience in the chemical and energy industries, I support organizations and project teams in delivering complex projects successfully.

My approach combines technical understanding, practical project leadership and a strong focus on people, processes and sustainable results.

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About John Rover

Selected Project Experience

Over three decades of hands-on involvement in complex industrial projects across energy, chemicals and global capital portfolios.

Shell International

Global Construction & Project Execution Leadership

Led global initiatives to improve construction productivity and strengthen project execution capability across Shell’s international project portfolio.

Integrated Gas / Megaprojects

$1B–$2B Greenfield & Brownfield Developments

Managed early-stage project development across India, Southeast Asia and New Zealand, covering complex integrated gas and infrastructure projects.

Chemicals & Industrial Sites

Portfolio & Construction Management

Responsible for delivery of a multi-project portfolio and leading construction teams in brownfield environments on large industrial sites.

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FAQ

Questions you may have

We have answered some of the questions we hear most often about our programmes, learning formats and approach.

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Why should I choose JBR Excellence?
What is the difference between consultancy and training?
What are some examples of consultancy support?
Who is the programme designed for?
How is the training programme delivered?

Project management and professional learning are two different disciplines. We combine extensive project management experience with professional learning expertise gained through delivering the APM PMQ to hundreds of participants. This makes our approach different from many traditional training providers. For every theoretical or academic concept, we can share a real-world story from our own experience that shows what it means in practice.

Consultancy is designed around a specific project or business challenge, where our experience can help your team address a real situation. Training builds broader project leadership capabilities, while still being tailored to your needs. During our programme, we spend time understanding your needs and use them to make the learning directly relevant to you and your organisation.

We support project teams across a wide range of challenges. This could include selecting the right concept, improving project definition, developing safety plans, assessing major changes, preparing contracting and supply chain strategies, supporting competitive tenders, applying Advanced Work Packaging (AWP), strengthening execution plans or identifying where digital tools can create value. The support depends on your project, its challenges and where our experience can add the most value.

The programme is designed for professionals involved in projects who want to progress their career in project management. It is particularly suited to project and discipline professionals, project leaders, business leaders and sponsors working on complex capital projects. The programme helps participants develop a more structured, confident and effective approach to project delivery, built on real-world experience, practical examples and lessons learned.

The programme is fully flexible. You can enrol in one or more self-paced online learning modules, or complete the full programme, which combines ten weeks of online learning with an immersive five-day classroom phase. The classroom phase can be delivered either online or face-to-face. Participants work through the online material at their own pace before applying the concepts to a practical project case study during the classroom phase.