PMO Strategies is a training and capability development organization that helps companies close the gap between strategy and execution — improving how initiatives are prioritized, governed, and delivered so that every project drives real business value.
Founded by Laura Barnard in 2013, we have spent over a decade helping PMO leaders, project professionals, and organizations around the world transform how strategy gets done.
Years driving IMPACT
Organizations served worldwide
Community members globally
Podcast episodes published
Years combined PMO experience
These principles are woven through everything we teach, build, and deliver.
Projects must produce measurable business results. Delivering on time and on budget is not enough if the business outcome isn't achieved.
Strategy delivery is a human endeavor. Leadership, relationships, and trust are the real levers. Process and tools exist to support people, not replace them.
A strategy only matters if the organization can actually deliver it. We bridge the gap between what leaders plan and what teams execute.
Knowledge alone is not power. We design everything to be immediately applicable — so people can learn, retain, and use what they've learned right away.
The right governance structures don't slow organizations down — they create the clarity and accountability that lets them move faster.
Everything we do is aimed at one thing: helping the people and organizations we serve make a real, measurable, lasting difference.
Author, Speaker, Influencer
Laura Barnard has spent more than two and a half decades helping organizations deliver change — with 15 of those years in the shoes of a PMO leader inside organizations. She has worked with leaders across industries ranging from nonprofits and government to global financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies.
She founded PMO Strategies in 2013 with a singular conviction: that organizations don’t fail because of bad strategy — they fail because they can’t execute it. Her work focuses on closing that gap by helping PMOs, transformation offices, and strategy delivery teams build the operating models, capabilities, and mindsets that turn plans into measurable results.
In 2021, Laura was named Global PMO Influencer of the Year by the PMO Global Alliance — the only award of its kind in the world. Her book, The IMPACT Engine, has been called “the bible on how to run a PMO” and is used by practitioners and leaders around the world.
She also serves as President of Project Management for Change, a nonprofit connecting PM volunteers with community organizations that need delivery leadership to achieve their missions.
1999 — The PMO Journey Began
Late 90s early career opportunities to be part of “global-first” transformations sparked our founder’s passion to help people do big things. So when she was asked to build her first PMO in 1999, in the middle of the wild ride that was the Dot-Com Era, it was love at first PMO. 💜
2013 — PMO Strategies Launches
After 15+ years of learning the hard way what works, helping her peers get big results, and a frustration with templated “big consulting” PMO Strategies was founded to do it right, faster, and with higher IMPACT.
2014 — IMPACT Engine System™ Launched
The flagship six-stage strategy delivery operating model launches, transforming how PMOs and transformation offices operate worldwide.
2014 — PMDoS and PM4Change Launched
While building PMO Strategies, our founder and two of her best friends had something else brewing… the first Project Management Day of Service (PMDoS). After 8 months and thousands of volunteer hours delivered by a 40-person all-volunteer PMO, the first PMDoS took place in January 2015. Project Management for Change was established as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, connecting PM volunteers with nonprofits and community organizations. PMDoS events have been taking place in cities around the world ever since.
2015 — IMPACT Accelerator Mastermind™
The transformational coaching and leadership development program that has been elevating leaders’ careers and shaping how organizations deliver strategy began. This program now offers two levels: Leadership Momentum for PM/PgM/CM leaders and Leadership Mastery for PMO and transformation leaders.
2018 — The IMPACT Summit Was Born
This event became the world’s largest virtual event for PMO and transformation leaders hosting hundreds of top global influencers and thought leaders for thousands of professionals worldwide. This event was a catalyst for bringing together “would be” competitors together to serve the PMO community, forming enduring friendships and partnerships.
2021 — Global PMO Influencer of the Year
Laura Barnard named Global PMO Influencer of the Year by the PMO Global Alliance — the only award of its kind in the world.
2023 — International PMO Day Was Born
In 2022, several PMO influencers, including Laura Barnard, were together in London and hatched a plan to give PMO people a day of celebration dedicated to the hard work PMO do. In 2023, the first ever International PMO Day was registered and the world began to celebrate PMO together on the second Tuesday each May.
2025 — Global Transformation Group was Born
After years of a mutual friend insisting, “You two have to meet,” Alexander David and Laura Barnard finally connected. It quickly became clear they shared a similar approach and complementary strengths. Together, they merged their consulting practices to form Global Transformation Group, a transformational consulting firm.
Whether you’re an individual leader or an enterprise team, we have a path designed for exactly where you are right now.
