PMO Strategies

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Confidence as a PMO leader doesn’t come from having the loudest voice in the room, the most templates, or the perfect dashboard. Real confidence comes from clarity—knowing what matters, why it matters, and how the work you’re leading actually creates&nbs...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Hello January! New year, new PMO goals!   By now, I’m guessing you’re already dealing with a full inbox and back-to-back meetings. And just like that...the excitement you had about improving your PMO is s...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills As the year comes to a close, most PMO and transformation leaders are scrambling to finish projects, finalize reports, or jump straight into planning for next year. But here’s the question I want you to stop and ask yourself: are you reviewing what you did this year, or the IMPA...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills How many certifications do you need before you’re “ready”? One more? Two? Here’s the truth: you’ll never feel ready by studying more. Because credibility doesn’t come from the letters after your name. It comes from the battles you’ve won, the chaos you’ve managed, and the decisi...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen If you’ve spent any time in project delivery, you’ve probably heard the phrase “delivering value” more times than you can count. Leaders talk about driving outcomes, creating value streams, and measuring benefits. Yet right when you think&nb...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Every great project tells a story, and the best ones play out like blockbuster movies.  In this episode, I'm joined by Dawn Mahan, co-editor of  Projectland Goes to the Movies  and author of  Meet the Players in Projectland . We'...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Your words either build trust or break it. And when you talk like you're overwhelmed, you train your leaders to doubt your capacity—even if you're actually capable of more.  In this episode, I'm sharing the unintended cost of sounding...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills PMO leaders are great at execution. They know how to plan, deliver, and measure. But when change accelerates, those same strengths can become constraints. What’s missing isn’t discipline or process—it’s imagination.  A failure of imagination is...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Being useful is fine. But being indispensable? That’s a whole other level.  This is what it means to be the ride-or-die right hand. The person leaders don’t have to chase, double-check, or worry about. The one who delivers relief and results when the pressure is on.  S...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Do you ever feel like your week is one long emergency response drill?  Most PMO and transformation leaders have spent their careers being rewarded for saving the day. But what if the very skills that got you here are now the reason you’re stuck in firefighting mode?  I...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Ways of Working We glorify being busy. The meetings, the projects, the dashboards, the endless updates. It feels like progress, but it’s not. What it really shows is how easily complexity takes over and steals focus.  When that happens, teams stall, stakeholders disengage, and leaders c...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Every organization talks about leadership and agility, but few know how to make them real when disruption hits.  When the pace of change never slows, how do you lead with clarity instead of reacting in chaos?  In this episode, I’m joined by Ken Banta , founder and CEO...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen We’ve all been told that the safest hire is the one with the most experience.  But here’s the truth: experience doesn’t guarantee IMPACT.   In this episode, I challenge the old belief that more experience automatically makes a better hire. I share a story from a PMO...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen Time. Scope. Budget. They're the scoreboard most teams are told to play by.    But what if meeting those marks isn’t what earns you a win—at least not in the eyes of your stakeholders?    In this episode, I’m joined by Dave Garrett , Senior Advisor to the...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Ways of Working Growth in a PMO career often gets measured by titles or the size of the portfolio you manage. But in reality, leadership growth is about making the right shifts at the right time.  If you’ve been delivering results but still feel stuck, it’s not because you lack talent....

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen Luxury isn’t about cost. It’s about how people feel when they interact with you.     This is what it means to adopt a luxury mindset. Leaders who stop acting like task-driven order takers and start thinking like concierges create experiences that build trust, influe...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Strategy is just planning for IMPACT. This is what PMO leaders do night in and night out: plan, prioritize, and align across the portfolio. That alone is influencing strategy.     So if PMO leaders are experts in strategy, why are they still left out of strategic conve...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills  Public sector projects rarely fail because of bad process. They fail because of behaviors no one is willing to confront.     In this episode, I’m joined by Matthew Oleniuk , senior public sector delivery advisor, oversight leader, and founder of TheRiskInsider.com ....

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Many leaders think their job when stepping into an existing PMO is to keep things running smoothly.  But most of the time? That’s exactly how you miss the chance to make it matter.  In this episode, I walk you through how to take charge of a PMO you’ve inherited, using...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Everyone thinks strategy fails because of poor execution.    But most of the time? It’s poor communication.    In this episode, I’m joined by Dori Gilbert —an executive coach, transformation strategist, and certified PMO leader who’s helped delivery teams and...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills PMOs were never meant to be just about tracking outputs. The real reason executive teams approve the creation of a PMO is to drive better business outcomes.     In this episode , I’m talking about how the original purpose of the PMO has been buried under layers of proc...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen PMOs were never meant to be just support teams. They’re strategic engines—and it’s time the world caught up.     If you’ve been delivering projects without influence, you’re missing the opportunity to lead your company’s strategy from the inside out.    In...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills  You’re delivering results. You’re solving problems. But if no one knows about it, it’s like it never happened.    In this episode, I’m sharing why it’s not enough to simply do great work—you also need to make that work visible. I’ll walk you through how to market you...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills  Everyone talks about PMO frameworks. We’re talking about the humans behind them.    If your playbook starts with process instead of people, you're skipping the most important part of the work: understanding how your organization really functions—politically, emotiona...

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills  You don’t prove your leadership by taking on everything yourself. You prove it by creating space, enabling others, and delivering results that last.  In this episode, I’m calling out the hidden cost of wearing “busy” like a badge—and why so many high-performing leaders qu...