Diane Neto

The steady hand
behind every bold move.

Programme Management  ·  Executive Support  ·  Chief of Staff  ·  PMO Leadership

Oxford Saïd  ·  McKinsey Forward  ·  ENEB Dual MBA in Project Management  ·  MBA in Team Management & Leadership

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I am the person organisations call when complexity needs a conductor.

I build the structures that let ambitious teams move fast without falling apart — leading multi-million euro programmes, sitting at the right hand of executives, and translating strategy into the disciplined systems that make it real.

My work lives at the intersection of order and momentum. I am equally comfortable in a boardroom, a project war room, and a blank-page planning session. My practice is grounded in both deep operational experience and rigorous academic formation — holding an ENEB Dual MBA in Project Management, an MBA in Team Management and Leadership, an Executive Leadership Programme from Oxford Saïd Business School, and the McKinsey Forward Leadership Programme.

After years embedded inside some of Europe's most demanding organisations, I founded Opus to bring that same calibre of programme management and executive support to leaders who need more than a coordinator — they need a trusted operator.

Discipline is not a practice. I walk into complexity and bring order to it — not because I was asked to, but because it's intrinsic.

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She makes the impossible possible.
Senior Executive
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Proactive, and always ready to take the right initiatives.
Director
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She knows how to put a house in order.
Executive Leader
Organisations I have delivered for
Morgan Stanley · PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP · Citibank Europe plc · Booking.com · Financial Conduct Authority · Greenpeace International · GQ · Global Reporting Initiative · Veon · LCIA · European Commission · Bunge · Morgan Stanley · PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP · Citibank Europe plc · Booking.com · Financial Conduct Authority · Greenpeace International · GQ · Global Reporting Initiative · Veon · LCIA · European Commission · Bunge ·
London · Amsterdam · Toronto · Finance · Fintech · Media · Telecoms · Government · NGO
Mission

To bring rigour, clarity, and calm to the work that matters most.

So leaders can lead, organisations can move, and nothing falls through the cracks. Every programme, every executive partnership, every system I build is grounded in both operational mastery and rigorous academic formation across Oxford Saïd, McKinsey Forward Leadership Programme, and a Dual MBA in Project Management and Team Management and Leadership — creating the freedom to execute with confidence.

Vision

A world where operational excellence is available to every ambitious leader.

Opus exists to be that capability: a partner that thinks like a strategist, works like a precision instrument, and holds the line so you don't have to.

Four programmes. Each one chosen deliberately — to sharpen a different dimension of the work I do.

Dual MBA
MBA in Project Management
+ MBA in Team Management & Leadership
ENEB · Universidad Isabel I · 72 ECTS

A rigorous dual MBA combining end-to-end project management methodology with the science of building and leading high-performance teams. The academic foundation of everything I deliver operationally.

Project lifecycle Risk & governance Team leadership Stakeholder management Agile & waterfall
Executive Leadership
Executive Leadership
Programme
University of Oxford · Saïd Business School

Oxford's research-led programme in leadership strategy, change management, and organisational design — covering how leaders navigate ambidexterity, build high-performance systems, and lead with authentic purpose under complexity.

Change strategy High-performance teams Ambidextrous orgs Authentic leadership Ripple intelligence
McKinsey Forward Leadership Programme
McKinsey Forward
Leadership Programme
McKinsey & Company

McKinsey's practitioner programme in structured problem-solving, analytical decision-making, and communicating for impact — the toolkit that gives every programme I run its clarity of thinking and precision of output.

Structured problem-solving Issue trees Prioritisation matrices Communicating for impact Adaptability & resilience
McKinsey Forward · Core toolkit
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Problem Solving
SMART problem definition · Issue trees · Prioritisation matrices
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Adaptability
Resilience under pressure · Managing uncertainty · Staying effective through change
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Relationships
Stakeholder trust · Wellbeing in teams · Sustainable working relationships
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Digital Toolkit
Modern tools for programme delivery · Data fluency · Digital collaboration
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Communicating for Impact
Executive communication · Influencing stakeholders · Structured narrative

Whether you need someone to run complex programmes end-to-end, sit alongside your executive leadership, or architect your PMO from the ground up — Opus brings senior-level capability from day one.

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Senior Programme Management
End-to-end ownership of complex, multi-stakeholder programmes. Governance design, risk management, delivery assurance, and the discipline that keeps ambitious initiatives on track.
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Executive Support / Chief of Staff
The trusted operator at your right hand. Translating vision into action, managing the leadership agenda, and ensuring nothing of consequence falls between the cracks of a fast-moving organisation.
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PMO Leadership
Building and leading portfolio management offices that actually work — frameworks, reporting, resource governance, and the cultural shift that turns PMO from overhead into a strategic asset.
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Amsterdam · Hybrid · Open to senior roles across Europe.

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