IMPACT Engine System™

Drive the highest possible return on investment for your organization's strategy... faster than you thought possible.

A Program That Fuels Strategy Delivery IMPACT

Known as the IMPACT Engine System™, this is the only program of its kind that shows you exactly how to build, run, and elevate your strategy delivery organization so you can finally earn your seat at the table. For over 25 years, this unique system has always delivered, so much so that we wrote the book on it. The IMPACT Engine distills the key findings from this program, and it’s yours for free when you register.

Why Your IMPACT Matters

If you are building or running a PMO, Strategy Delivery Office, Agile or Business Transformation Office, your career depends upon understanding that in today’s results-driven world, it’s not enough to be good at your job — you need to be great at making an IMPACT. This program will help you drive measurable value for the business and show the clear-cut advantage you bring to the team.

IMPACT Engine System™ Journey

IES is an iterative value delivery framework designed to continuously elevate your team’s capabilities and services to accelerate the IMPACT of your organization’s strategy.

Ready to make moves?

Here are the calculated steps our program will guide you through on your journey from outputs to IMPACT, as outlined in The IMPACT Engine.

Develop the optimal IMPACT Driver mindset so you can unlock the secrets behind any challenges your organization should solve.

  • Learn the best approach for establishing a strategy-delivery office that can show value quickly.
  • Begin the mindset shifts you must make in order to prepare for the IMPACT Engine System™ Journey.
  • Learn the pitfalls that so many strategy-delivery leaders fall into and how to avoid them.
  • Create a Strategy Delivery Framework and Foundation workbook

Develop strong stakeholder relationships and unlock their highest priorities so you deliver the highest-IMPACT solutions.

  • Build your coalition of support while exploring opportunities to deliver IMPACT.
  • Evaluate all organizational change aspects so that you are fully prepared to lead change without resistance.
  • Craft a winning IMPACT Engine Recommendation that drives engagement and support.
  • Create assessments of culture, organization, team, and self to understand where you are starting.
  • Create interview and survey collection
  • Conduct a series of organizational, team, cultural and personal assessments to understand your current state.

Build credibility fast with high-IMPACT solutions and services that demonstrate your value.

  • Confidently determine the best fit services for your organization’s needs.
  • Establish a right-sized governance and portfolio model to oversee IMPACT delivery.
  • Determine and hire the best IMPACT Engine talent to achieve your mission.
  • Establish the most efficient processes, templates, and tools to achieve your desired outcomes.
  • Develop metrics that will tell the story of how your organization is delivering IMPACT.
  • Craft a winning IMPACT Engine proposal to begin your journey
  • Develop a set of recommendations for your delivery proposal
  • Create your IMPACT Engine services menu
  • Build your IMPACT Engine governance model
  • Define your IMPACT Engine talent requirements
  • Establish your IMPACT Engine tools and process

Create your high-value delivery roadmap to guide the organization toward greater IMPACT realization.

  • Build your IMPACT Engine business plan to set expectations on organization IMPACT.
  • Establish your IMPACT Engine maturity framework – custom to your organizational needs.
  • Develop your iterative IMPACT Engine road map of value delivery.
  • Determine your value measurement plan and KPIs so IMPACT Engine value is clear.
  • Confidently deliver your IMPACT Engine Delivery Proposal ongoing measurement plan.
  • Build your business plan to set expectations.
  • Document your IMPACT Engine proposal.
  • Create your IMPACT Engine services delivery road map.
  • Layout your IMPACT Engine maturity model.
  • Establish your IMPACT Engine metrics framework.

Deliver exceptional business results that strategically position your organization at the center of organizational value delivery.

  • Understand how to incorporate smart organizational change management techniques.
  • Establish a delivery-focused culture and mindset within the organization.
  • Learn how to adapt your management style to the change capability and culture.
  • Communicate IMPACT Engine that tells your story of undeniable business value.
  • Continue a thoughtful iterative approach to services delivery and results measurement.
  • Implement your organizational change management plan.
  • Implement your marketing plan.
  • Manage and monitor services delivery.
  • Conduct your 30/90 assessments.

Develop a nimble and adaptive value model so shifting business needs don’t derail success as you position the organization as the organizational Strategy Navigator™.

  • Evaluate IMPACT Engine performance and progress to determine your next evolutionary step.
  • Evolve your IMPACT Engine road map to suit a dynamic organizational environment.
  • Earn your seat at the table as the Strategy Navigator™ by providing critical business insight and leadership. 
  • Get ahead of the game: predict where your organization should be next and get there before they ask.
  • Evolve your IMPACT Engine services delivery road map
  • Develop your strategy navigation system

Each year, hundreds of strategy delivery leaders join the journey to make a bigger IMPACT.

Now, it’s your turn.

Hear from Our Students

Student Spotlight

See how these strategy delivery leaders became IMPACT drivers.

This could be you, too!

What are you waiting for?
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Guiding Your Journey

The only program you need to take you on every step of the journey to build or elevate your strategy delivery organization quickly and show tangible business value along the way.

Comprehensive Deliverables

Create all of the deliverables you need to build, run, and manage the organization while effectively communicating your value and results.

Step-By-Step Guidance

Guided delivery model to take you through every step of the process using our Iterate Your Way to IMPACT delivery model.

40+ PDUs/CEUs

The training component of this program gives you 40 PDUs (10 Ways of Working, 20 Business Acumen, 10 Power Skills) and a completion certificate.

On-Demand Access

Videos, in-depth guidance, knowledge checks, worksheets, templates, and guided exercises to apply to your organization at your own pace.

Lifetime Access

One time payment for ongoing access and early access to new features and program updates including new guidance and resources.

Guided Case Study

Use our guided case study workbook to apply what you’re learning in each step to a real scenario.

IMPACT Accelerator Mastermind™

OPTIONAL UPGRADE

Looking for hands-on support from top global strategy delivery thought leaders while getting certified?

This optional coaching upgrade teaches you to become the strategic business partner your executives need with the support of likeminded students and a seasoned coach motivating you every step of the way.

With the hands-on coaching option, you’ll:

  • Avoid overwhelm by navigating the program together with a cohort of your peers
  • Collaborate with other strategy delivery leaders applying the IMPACT Engine System™
  • Build strategy delivery capability that’s right for your organization
  • Get real-time feedback from coaches on your progress
  • Get your strategy delivery questions answered by top industry thought leaders

The Coaching You Can Count On

For the business leader who wants hands-on support and coaching from top global industry experts guiding you every step of the way.

IMPACT Engine Certification

The only certification of its kind designed to prove your ability to deliver IMPACT.

Inner Circle Membership

Targeted training, assessments, guidance, playbooks, and templates to accelerate delivery.

Hands-On Support

Feedback on deliverables, guidance on stuck points, and coaching to keep you moving.

AI Chatbot

Brainstorm and get real time answers accessing our entire PMO Strategies content database.

Live Coaching

Live virtual coaching meetings twice a month to learn from and with your peers.

Coaching Platform

Get answers to your questions, feedback on deliverables, and collaborate on solutions.

Spotlight Training

Top industry thought leaders share their best advice and coach students in live training.

IES Planning Templates

IES planning templates for several major project management platforms.

Network of Peers

Connect with business leaders in the IES program, share wins, ask advice, and collaborate on deliverables.

Personal Development

Utilize mindset, habits, tasks, KPIs, and other planning tools to maximize your personal effectiveness.

IMPACT Engine System™ Certifications

Ready to make moves?

Multi-level badges and certifications designed for practitioners, coaches, and consultants to differentiate you among your peers using our phenomenally successful IMPACT Engine System™.

IMPACT Engine System™ Leader Certification

A certification awarded to to leaders working inside an organization in a PMO, strategy delivery office, or other business transformation function that have proven their ability to apply the IMPACT Engine System™ in a real world scenario.

IMPACT Engine System™ Consultant Certification

A certification awarded to consultants and coaches advising or providing strategy delivery services to other organizations that have proven their ability to apply the IMPACT Engine System™ in a real world scenario one or more times.

Program and Membership Benefits



Lifetime IMPACT Engine System Program Access

Step-by-Step Strategy Delivery Framework

Real-World Expertise On-Demand

Access to New Feature Updates 

Deliverables, Templates, and Resources

Case Study Workbook to Apply Each Technique 

40+ PDUs/CEUs for Training Portion

The IMPACT Engine Book Digital Access

Personalized Signed Copy of The IMPACT Engine Book

IMPACT Inner Circle Membership Program

Twice Monthly Group Q&A Coaching Sessions

Hot Topic Training by Industry Thought Leaders

PMO Strategies AI Chatbot with All Our Content

Learn and Grow with your PMO/Strategy Delivery Peers

Templates, Examples, and Case Studies from Students

Personal Leadership Development Planning

Accountability Resources to Ensure Progress

Certification Exam Preparation

Deliverable Support and Feedback

24x7 Access to Private Group Coaching Platform

IES Cycle Planning Templates

Optional 1:1 Coaching Add-On w/ IES Certified Coach

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Our Money Back Guarantee

Our hope is that you’re beyond thrilled with the results you see — but of course, you must actually do the work to know whether it worked! That’s why in order to be eligible for our 30-Day Money Back Guarantee, we request proof that after doing the required work and applying the teachings, the results still weren’t there.

Wondering if your company will pay for this?

This just in: Companies invest in employees who invest in their own continued professional growth. Need to make the case to your boss? We have a flyer for that. (But don’t worry if it doesn’t go as planned. We also have a monthly option to pay as you go.)

Quottation

I went out on a limb, and I signed up for the IMPACT Engine System™ and I have not regretted it. There is such a wealth of information in the IMPACT Engine System™ itself. And I don’t regret for a minute having signed up for this. And it’s given me what I’ve needed to build a new strategy-delivery office.

Debbie

I would highly recommend the IMPACT Engine System™. There’s also coaching involved with the program. I would highly recommend that and there’s other aspects of services and products in the PMO strategies and I would just highly recommend all of that and it’s really increased my depth of project management, but also the speed of what I need to learn.

Raymond

It’s really nice to not feel like I’m on an island by myself. Like, when I went to the impact summit, I was like, gosh, all of these other people are just like me. I’m not alone. So, I mean, I really value having the input of the group and, you know, all your guidance and all of that along the way kind of helps.

Cori

Beyond useful! A whole new meaning – Strategy delivery office should be optimized with PMO Strategies!

Masha

I was awakened by the health assessment results that changed how I want to take my organization forward after 7 years in this role.

Sonja

You can save yourself so much time and energy by applying this process to build the right PMO for your organization. This program just makes sense. It doesn’t take a lot of time and energy but look at the results I got again and again! Now that I’m applying this program again in another organization, I’m even more confident going into this role than I ever have going into any other role over my career. I know exactly how to drive success quickly. 

Andrea

Having enrolled on the IMPACT Engine System™ with her, that has made an absolute difference in my life in terms of the headaches and the pain that I would have had.  I have no hesitation in recommending Laura and joining the program as early as you can because as we speak, time is running out for you. Go ahead, join the program, make the best of it, and Laura will help you get to where you have to get to for you to make that impact that you need.

Garfield

The IMPACT Engine System™ has given me the tools to move that project management needle in our organization.  Laura is a fantastic coach. She shares personal experiences. What’s worked, what hasn’t worked and that’s very relatable.  The materials that are provided are priceless and I highly recommend the IMPACT Engine System™.

Leigh

Laura’s mentoring and the IMPACT Engine System™ program has been invaluable to me. It’s given me confidence and guidance through the challenges that I face as a strategy delivery leader of one currently.  I can’t thank Laura and her team enough for helping me learn and grow professionally over the last couple of years.  Today, I not only work consistently and confidently with our leadership, but I’m also able to help coach others in our organization through the project management process.

Andrea

If you’re worried about the money, don’t think about that. I used the word investment all the time. I invested without the green light from my business because I thought this was so important. And it is, but it’s so good that my boss reimbursed me once they saw the value, that’s how good this program is.

Wiletta

I love this program. I’ve been working on it for several months and it has given me a lot of ”Ahaaa” moments, and solutions to my, well more company’s problem. It is really hands-on methodology and the best part are workshops within the worldwide student group and invited speakers where we learn from each other and get the best possible high lever expert guidance.

Gregor

Questions? We’ve got answers

In a nutshell? How to embed real change in your organization in 90 days by shifting your mindset, uncovering impact opportunities, defining your delivery model, developing a road map, delivering a high ROI, and building sustainability. But if you want to get into all the details, head back up to the WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN EACH STAGE section.

You can see the contents of the course in the What’s included in the course section.

Laura Barnard, Founder and Chief IMPACT Driver for PMO Strategies and Top Global PMO Influencer of the Year for 2021-2022. Laura built this entire program based on more than 25 years of experience in your shoes as a strategy delivery leader for 15 years then as a IMPACT Engine consultant, trainer and coach for a decade. This program is the same step-by-step system that we use with our clients that are getting transformational results with their organizations, but you get it at a fraction of the cost!

This is a self-paced online program you can take right from the comfort of your own home or office and go at your own pace.

We provide you with a 90-day planner that you can use to guide your progress and each step outlines how long the videos are and the minimum amount of time you should spend at each step working through the activities that accomplish each step in the process.

When you upgrade to select BOTH the IMPACT ENGINE SYSTEM™ and IMPACT ACCELERATOR MASTERMIND™, you will have the option to attend 2-3 meetings a month where you will experience live coaching, Q&A with your peers, and hot topic sessions over zoom meetings (with recordings available for later viewing).

You also have access to Laura and other coaches online in your private workspace on the coaching platform to send questions and ask them to review materials, as well as the entire coaching group with tons of additional support resources in the coaching portal.

As soon as you complete your purchase, the IMPACT ENGINE SYSTEM™ will be available to you inside your account.

If you also join the IMPACT ACCELERATOR MASTERMIND™, you will have access to that as soon as you sign the Non-Disclosure and Coaching Agreement signed by every participant to protect the identity and content covered in the sessions. We take the privacy of our students very seriously.

We have also created a phenomenal environment of kind and supportive participants from all over the world and want to maintain that culture of positive support in this group.

You’ll receive an email with your login information and links to the platform as soon as you complete registration. Check your spam or junk folder and make sure to add PMO Strategies to your safe sender list.

When deciding on the best route for your journey with the IMPACT Engine System™, there are two options.

Option 1: Purchase the IMPACT Engine System™ implementation program by itself for a one-time fee of $2997. This includes lifetime access to all of the templates, deliverables, and resources, as well as any program feature updates that occur in the future.

Option 2: Purchase the IMPACT Engine System™ implementation program + IMPACT Accelerator Mastermind™ group coaching with a first payment of $4597. This includes the implementation program, initial coaching program upgrade, and first 3 months of coaching subscription benefits (you can see a full benefits list here). After this initial payment, there is a subscription fee of $597 per quarter (the first of which would start 3 months from your time of purchase).

Note: With Option 2, you are not locked into any long-term commitment to the quarterly subscription. This can be canceled anytime, and you will still maintain lifetime access to the IMPACT Engine System™ implementation program. You will only lose access to the additional coaching program benefits once your final paid quarter is complete. Also, if you chose to rejoin the coaching group at any point, you will be locked in at the newest quarterly charge (pending any pricing changes by the time your new subscription begins).

The truth is, you can’t afford NOT to be in this program if you’re serious about building and running an organization that your business leaders NEED to help them accomplish their organizational strategy.

You aren’t buying a course, you are buying a full end-to-end system that not only drives the immediate desire of building or elevating your organization, but you’re also positioning yourself to elevate your own leadership capability and get noticed by your leaders. That’s the norm, not the exception in this program!

One of the most important aspects of this program is that we teach you to think, act, talk, and LEAD like a business leader. That means you’re quickly going to develop skills that help you earn a seat at the table in the most important conversations taking place in your leadership team. They need YOU and your team to help them solve business problems and we’re going to show you exactly how to do that.

Step one is understanding the true value of your investments in your time, energy, and resources and this program will help you maximize the benefit you can see for the investment you make.

Of course, I understand that having the actual cash flow to invest can be a little trickier, especially if you’re paying for it out of pocket. That’s why we offer a payment plan through Paypal Credit.

Note: Many of our students get reimbursed by their business leaders once they’ve started showing how much value they are creating with what they’ve learned. We walk you through how to do this with student examples in the IMPACT ACCELERATOR MASTERMIND™ coaching program.

Yes, we do!

We offer a 100% Money Back Guarantee.

Our hope is that you’re beyond satisfied with the course and naturally, we also expect you to give your very best effort to implement the strategies we teach you, of which there will be TONS of guidance and support to walk you through exactly how to do just that. That’s why in order to be eligible for our 30-day Money Back Guarantee, you must submit proof that you did the work and it did not work for you.

If you find another program out there that was built 100% based on REAL WORLD experience building and running an organization for more than twenty five years AND offers the kind of ongoing support even for the self-study plan, please let us know!!

This program was designed to address a gap in high-IMPACT resources that get results. We don’t want you to go it alone like Laura did in the 90s when she build her first PMO or struggle to find the right forward path with all of the conflicting advice she received over her 15 years inside organizations doing PMO, transformation, and strategy delivery work. Her mission is to make it easier for YOU than she ever had it.

Most importantly, if you do the work, you will get the results. This program works if you do the work.

DEFINTELY DON’T WAIT!!

We have participants that join after they “try to get settled” and then they find that they would have been so much better off with the resources we include in the program!

Every single one of them says they wish they’d found us sooner. Don’t let that be you!

We guide you through exactly what you need to do in those first 90 days in the role. We give you ever step-by-step and when you join BEFORE your first day on the job, you can get a head start in understanding how to hit the ground running – and have a 90 Day Plan to put in front of your boss day one!

Those first few weeks in the new role are critical.

You need to know who to talk to and what you should be asking and looking for in those first onboarding discussions and meet-and-greet conversations. First impressions are important! AND there are resources in Step 1 and Step 2 you will want to have to go through this process. Step 1 will help you get very clear on why your organization is there and Step 2 will help you uncover exactly what you should focus on first to build credibility and momentum quickly.

Remember, by the time they put you in this role, they have already been dealing with challenges or pain points they want addressed for months or years and so you are already behind the eight ball on day one. Annoying, but true.

Yes, absolutely! It’s all self-paced.

We give you a 90 day plan to get through all the meetings, collect the inputs, conduct the analysis, define the services, plan out the road map for the coming year (or two), and start delivering. If you use our planner, you’re delivering your first services in week 9!

Or you can pace it out slower to give you more time to work through the content. The program is yours to keep forever, even when we make updates, so you have it to use as many times and when you need it.

This is not something you do in addition to your job on nights and weekends.

THIS IS YOUR JOB. 

You will learn what to do, in what order, why it matters, how to do it, and you’ll be given the resources to apply to your own situation. You’ll have everything you need to do this job well. Why go the hard way when we’ve created this whole system FOR YOU so you can get better results much faster and easier?

This program takes you step-by-step through what to do, in what order, why it matters, how to do it, and then gives you the resources to do it – at your own pace so there’s no overwhelm or going too fast or not having time to do it all.

Right at the beginning of the program, you’ll access your 90 Day Planner so you can lay out a realistic plan that not only ensures your success but helps you save tons of time wondering what to do, keeps you from making unnecessary mistakes, and ensures you’re on the right track for YOUR particular situation.

Absolutely! The deliverables you create using our templates inside your organization are copyright free and available for you to use internally for your organization. However, you cannot sell or distribute them beyond your organization.

If you are working as a consultant and plan to use these in multiple organizations, contact us here or using the chat feature on the bottom right corner of the website for special details about how we can give you all the support you need to be successful in supporting your clients.

We want to help you help your clients succeed, just like we do!

Plus, make sure you check out our new certification program because we have a level JUST FOR YOU so you can get ongoing support as you work with your clients.

Just reach out!

Our team of customer care specialists are here to help if you run into tech problems, have a question about the program, or just want to say hello. You can contact us here or using the chat feature on the bottom right corner of the website. We’d love to say hello. 🙂

That’s actually how most Organizations start out. We have students with big teams, students with only a couple of people, and students that is an organization of one and trying to figure out where and how to get started. We figure all that out in their kickstart session and lay out a realistic and targeted plan that works even if you are only dedicating part of your time to “building” while the rest of your time is spent “doing” various tasks.

Yes!

If you choose the IMPACT ENGINE SYSTEM™ + IMPACT ACCELERATOR MASTERMIND™ option, Laura or other certified coaches will review your materials during the coaching sessions and/or provide you direct feedback on your materials in the coaching portal.

If you choose the IMPACT ENGINE SYSTEM™ only, we are unable to review all of your individual workbooks, templates, or materials you’re creating for your organization.

Hint: Most of our participants choose the mastermind option. There’s nothing quite like the support you get from and with this group.

No worries!

You can contact us here or using the chat feature on the bottom right corner of the website and we’ll help you determine which option is right for you.

This course is priced per individual and it is against program licensing terms to share your login information or otherwise distribute the contents of the training program with the exception of the deliverables you are creating as a part of this course. You’ll create many of your organization’s deliverables in this course and those can and should be distributed to all stakeholders and are fully customizable.

However, we highly encourage all team members to take part in this program! After all, your team needs to be on the same page as you are shifting your mindset and building your organization or transforming how the organization delivers IMPACT. That’s why we have a special program for organizations. Contact us here or using the chat feature on the bottom right corner of the website to get the special pricing so all team members can benefit from the program.

If you are working as a consultant and plan to use these in multiple organizations, contact us here or using the chat feature on the bottom right corner of the website for special details about how we can give you all the support you need to be successful in supporting your clients.

We want to help you help your clients succeed, just like we do!

Plus, make sure you check out our new certification program because we have a level JUST FOR YOU so you can get ongoing support as you work with your clients.

In the IMPACT ACCELERATOR MASTERMIND™, you will have plenty of opportunities to get direct feedback from Laura, other coaches, and your peers on your particular organization scenario, review of your specific materials, and get answers to any questions about the program or applying the techniques in your organization.

You will have 24×7 access to this group forum and your private workspace to share your thoughts, get feedback, and request materials reviews.

Note: We are planning to add private live zoom one-on-one coaching with certified coaches in the near future and priority for access to this one-on-one coaching will be given to those in the program longest.