When Strategy Stalls – The PMO’s Role in Getting It Moving Again
Speakers
Rebecca Reynolds is a reinvention expert, systems innovator, and author with over 30 years of experience guiding leaders and organizations through large-scale transformation. She has developed and applied innovative models for advancing change capability across government, non-profits, and communities. Her new book, Thresholds of Change: The Way Through Transformational Times, distills her proven approach to navigating disruption with clarity and confidence.
Stuart helps PMO and portfolio leaders build strategy-aligned portfolios and prove ROI. A guest lecturer on project prioritization at the University of Oxford, he speaks widely on killing pet projects, focusing investment on value, and using decision science (AHP) to make clear, defensible choices.
About this webinar
Strategy often looks great on paper but stalls in execution. In this session, Stuart Easton sits down with Rebecca Reynolds—a consultant to U.S. government agencies, nonprofits, and multi-entity programs—to unpack why the strategy–execution gap persists and how the PMO can get things moving again. You’ll learn how to reposition the PMO from “project delivery” to a true strategy execution function, align decisions to outcomes, and communicate with leadership in business terms that drive funding and trust.
What you’ll learn
- Why strategy stalls and how to diagnose your organization’s specific “gap creators.”
- How PMOs shift from tracking work to enabling strategy execution.
- Turning priorities into clear decision criteria (and weights) using AHP to reduce bias and politics.
- Governance that makes “no” (or “not yet”) transparent and owned by the business—not the PMO.
- Reporting to executives: moving from raw data to insight that secures funding and trust.
- Practical questions to run inside the PMO—and questions to put to leadership—to close the gap.
Who it’s for
PMO and portfolio leaders, project managers, and strategy/delivery teams in government, nonprofit, and commercial organizations who need to connect strategy to execution with fewer projects, more value, and clearer choices.