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Why You’ll Never Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap (Unless You Do This)
As a CEO, you’ve spent countless hours crafting a solid strategy for growth, yet the results never seem to align with your vision. Colleagues complain about execution failures, but here’s the truth: the strategy-to-execution gap isn’t just an operational or delivery problem—it’s built into your organization’s structure. Only you can fix it.
Transforming PMOs into Strategic Powerhouses with Laura Barnard
Ever wondered how to transform your PMO into a strategic powerhouse? Join us for an enlightening conversation with Laura Barnard, a trailblazer in integrating PMOs and project management with organisational strategy. Laura shares her extensive experience working with industry giants like JP Morgan, LinkedIn, IBM, and Amazon.
Making an IMPACT with Project Management Offices
As a financial leader, I want to know every aspect of business. While quarterbacking my share of ERP implementations, I had only once heard the term PMO (short for Project Management Office). Accordingly, I wanted to learn more. After reading Laura Barnard’s new book on PMOs, I quickly realized she is probably the global thought leader on this subject. The book we unpack is The IMPACT Engine: Accelerating Strategy Delivery for PMO and Transformation Leaders.
Breaking the PMO Failure Cycle: Strategies to Thrive, with Laura Barnard
In this episode, Andy interviews Laura Barnard about her book, The Impact Engine: Accelerating Strategy Delivery for PMO and Transformation Leaders. They discuss Laura’s journey in setting up PMOs, the common mistakes and resistance faced, and the importance of change management and mindset in driving success. Laura introduces the Impact Engine system, a framework she developed to help organizations deliver sustainable value. The conversation also covers how project managers can become strategy navigators and effectively communicate with stakeholders.
4 Steps to Shift From Outputs to Outcomes
Companies often measure project success by the work completed on a timeline rather than by the value it delivers to the business. Teams may be busy checking off deliverables, staying on schedule, and meeting budgets. But a focus on outputs can obscure a more critical question: Are these projects truly advancing strategic goals?
The IMPACT Engine
The podcast features a panel discussion with Laura Barnard, the author of “The IMPACT Engine,” and three professionals who have utilized her strategies: Willetta Love, an Associate Director of Project Management, Andrea Cirelli, Senior Director of a PMO, and Gregor Androjna, a business consultant. The conversation is moderated by Kendall Lott.
The Real Reason Project Management Teams Fail and How to Fix It
As a result, delivery managers start begging business leaders for more resources, but because nothing is moving, the executives are reluctant to add more money and resources to solve the problem because they aren’t convinced the resources are “fully utilized.”
Books and Beyond: The IMPACT Engine – Accelerating Strategy Delivery for PMO Leaders
The IMPACT Engine is a comprehensive playbook that will help you accelerate business value, deliver sustainable change, drive higher ROI, increase stakeholder buy-in, and much more!
The New PMO: Strategic Partner in Business Transformation
In this episode of Product Momentum, Laura Barnard invites us to imagine the incredible business outcomes our organizations can realize when we create space for strategy and execution to work in concert, instead of at odds. Founder of PMO Strategies and author of The Impact Engine (available, Sept. 2024), Laura has been a driving force behind the integration of project management and organizational strategy, helping clients discover the mindset shift that improves how organizations execute strategies through projects.
Our Journey From Strategy to Action – A Client Success Story
Mike Welch, Strategy Delivery Office Director at the American Planning Association (APA), and Laura Barnard, President of PMO Strategies (the APA’s strategic advisors), share the ups and downs of their journey to transform the APA’s approach to strategy delivery.
The IMPACT Engine PMO with Laura Barnard
In this session, you’ll discover how to drive measurable business value quickly — so there’s no denying the clear-cut advantage you bring to the team. You’ll walk away with the road map you need to position the PMO as the strategic business asset necessary to lead your organization into the future and earn your seat at the table for good.
The Evolving Role of PMOs: Transforming into IMPACT Engines
The Role of the PMO has never been more critical to the success of modern organizations. Change is happening at a rapid pace… and it’s getting faster. To succeed, organizations need the PMO to step up, to shift their focus away from how projects are managed and towards how strategy is executed.
The Secret to Driving Unstoppable Business Value for Your PMO – Snippet
Here we give you a taste of our opening keynote speaker Laura Barnard’s session: The Secret to Driving Unstoppable Business Value for Your PMO.
2022 PMO Conference Chat After the Event
During the PMO Conference we took the time to speak to our keynote speaker Laura Barnard about being in the UK, her fantastic keynote session and all things PMO.
Are PMOs Really Dead?
2022 University of Maryland Project Management Symposium Keynote by Laura Barnard. In this session, Laura shares what the future holds for PMOs and how to go from survival mode to thriving in a future that is already upon us. She emphasizes positioning yourself as a strategic business partner while your organization shifts to respond to everything from market changes to a post-pandemic economy.
Digital Transformations Panel Discussion – Laura Barnard, Americo Pinto and Joe Pusz
The PMO Leader Global Community proudly presents the Digital Transformations webinar series. In this first episode we hear from PMO Industry leaders Laura Barnard, Americo Pinto, and Joe Pusz.
A PMO Your Executives Will Love
In this webinar, you will learn to view your PMO from the perspective of your senior executives and become a Strategy Navigator™ for your organization.
Changing the PMO Mindset: The Secret to Business Agility – Laura Barnard (PMO Strategies)
The world is seeing an accelerating speed of innovation and change happening at an almost frenetic pace due to everything from market disruptors to a global pandemic. Companies are going through transformations almost as a matter of course and it is hard to keep up. For PMO and project leaders, this is our golden opportunity, our chance to show what we are made of and how our seat at the table will ensure our organizations thrive in the midst of chaos and well into the future. Join us for this inspiring and engaging session to learn the secret to becoming an IMPACT Driver.
Why COVID-19 is a Golden Opportunity for Project Managers
In this Project Management Paradise interview, Caitriona Gately speaks to Laura Barnard about a range of topics in the Project Management space including career progression, the Golden Triangle (time, scope, and cost), Earned Value Management, and more.
The Value of a Business Aligned PMO
In this podcast episode, listen to Andy Jordan and Laura Barnard discuss the importance of a business aligned and focused PMO in order to achieve greater enterprise agility.