Right-sized PMO consulting & role-based project leadership development
It's Time to Turn Strategy Into Results With Stronger People & Smarter Systems
PMOtraining helps organizations develop project talent, build and elevate right-sized PMOs, and align workforce capacity with the work that matters most.
WELCOME TO PMOTRAINING
Have You Come to the Right Place?
If project delivery feels harder than it should, people are stretched thin, or you are wondering whether a PMO would help without adding bureaucracy, start here. In 3:19, Dawn explains the problems PMOtraining helps solve and the practical, right-sized way we work.
OUR SOLUTIONS
Where Does Your Organization Need the Most Support?
Every organization faces different challenges. Explore the path that best fits what your leaders and teams need to accomplish now.
Whatever You Call It...
It Needs to Deliver Results
Your organization may have one PMO or several, each designed to solve a different problem. You might call them a Project Management Office, Enterprise PMO, Transformation Office, Strategy Delivery Office, Integration Management Office, Value Management Office, or something entirely your own.
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Some support a specific department. Others coordinate enterprise strategy, transformation portfolios, M&A integration, resource capacity, or delivery standards across the organization.
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PMOtraining supports organizations across the full PMO lifecycle, from designing, launching, and improving PMOs to strengthening portfolio governance, project leadership, delivery processes, workforce planning, and resource management. We also provide role-based training and coaching. When organizations are ready to choose project portfolio management technology, we help them identify options that fit their budget and the way their people actually work.
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We do not begin with a predetermined structure or generic PMO template. We begin with what your organization needs to accomplish. Then we help you strengthen the people, practices, and leadership systems required to make it work in your environment.
FEATURED VIDEO
Do You Need a PMO or Simply a Better Way of Working?
Not every organization needs a formal PMO. In this six-minute video, Dawn shares five clues that coordinated project support may be needed and explains why the right answer could be a PMO or a lighter approach shaped around your organization.
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Watch: 5 Clues That a PMO May Be Right for You (6:01)
WHY PMOTRAINING
Experienced Guidance Shaped Around Your Organization
PMOtraining was founded by Dawn Mahan, PMP, an award-winning consultant, international speaker, former Fortune 500 PMO director and Fortune 50 transformation leader, and author of the bestselling book Meet the Players in Projectland: Decide the Right Project Roles & Get People On Board. For more than two decades, Dawn has helped organizations improve the way important work gets delivered.
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PMOtraining consultants and trainers have helped organizations across industries create practical, right-sized approaches to important project work. Dawn leads the firm and draws on experienced PMO leaders, authors, coaches, and other senior practitioners when additional capacity or specialized expertise is needed.
We Have Lived the Work From Both Sides
We have led PMOs, transformations, portfolios, and cross-functional initiatives from inside organizations. We have also advised clients across industries. We understand the pressure internal leaders face because we have carried that responsibility ourselves.
Right-Sized, Never Imposed
Not every organization needs a formal PMO. We listen first, preserve what is working, and recommend only the structure, practices, development, and support your organization genuinely needs.​
Practical Support Where the Work Gets Difficult
We help people apply sound practices to live work, make better decisions, strengthen working relationships, and build capability that remains inside the organization.​
Capability, Not Dependency
We train, coach, and advise the people inside your organization so stronger delivery capability remains with you. Our goal is not to keep an expensive consulting team permanently embedded. It is to help your people lead the work successfully.
WHO WE HELP
Practical Support for the People Turning Strategy Into Results
PMOtraining partners with C-suite executives, PMO and transformation leaders, and HR and talent-development professionals to strengthen the people and systems responsible for delivering important work. Together, we build and elevate right-sized PMOs, create adaptive project systems, develop project leaders and sponsors, and align workforce capacity with strategic priorities.
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Our clients include global enterprises, growing companies, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Their structures and needs differ, so our work is shaped around what will work in their environment, not a generic consulting playbook.
WHY PMOTRAINING
Experienced Guidance Shaped Around Your Organization
PMOtraining was founded by Dawn Mahan, PMP, an award-winning consultant, international speaker, former Fortune 500 PMO director and Fortune 50 transformation leader, and author of the bestselling book Meet the Players in Projectland: Decide the Right Project Roles & Get People On Board. For more than two decades, Dawn has helped organizations improve the way important work gets delivered.
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PMOtraining consultants and trainers have helped organizations across industries create practical, right-sized approaches to important project work. Dawn leads the firm and draws on experienced PMO leaders, authors, coaches, and other senior practitioners when additional capacity or specialized expertise is needed.
WHY PMOTRAINING
Executives and Sponsors
Help senior leaders and accountable sponsors set clear direction, make timely decisions, remove barriers, and support project leads at the right level without micromanaging.
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PMO Leaders
Strengthen the strategic, operational, and leadership capability required to establish, run, and continuously elevate a high-impact PMO or strategy delivery function. PMO leaders can receive practical training, group coaching, private 1-on-1 coaching, ongoing advisory support, or a combination shaped around their experience, responsibilities, and current challenges.
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Project Leads and Project Managers
Develop practical project leadership skills across the organization, prepare experienced professionals for PMP certification, and help subject-matter experts lead cross-functional work with greater confidence.
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Enterprise Teams
Align executives, sponsors, project leads, and advisory program leadership across an active transformation portfolio through coordinated talent development and senior advisory support.
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Explore Enterprise Training and Advisory Support
PROVEN IN THE REAL WORLD
Different Challenges. Practical Results.
PMOtraining has helped global companies, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations solve very different project delivery challenges. These examples show how our work adapts to the situation rather than forcing every client through the same program.
Turning a $6 Million CEO Challenge Into a Governed Portfolio
Halfway through a CEO-mandated $6 million improvement challenge, executives had no reliable evidence that the portfolio was on track. The leader assigned to manage it was also carrying a demanding day job, and many initiative leads had never been trained in project management. PMOtraining introduced practical portfolio governance, trained and coached the leads, improved executive visibility, and helped the organization focus resources and track benefits against the CEO's goal.
Building Capability Across the City of Philadelphia
Helping Employees Bring Stronger Business Cases to a Global CFO
After the CIO’s departure, the CFO of a private-equity-owned global company also assumed responsibility for IT. Employees lacked confidence in developing and leading improvement initiatives, and many were reluctant to bring business cases forward. PMOtraining combined practical learning on live initiatives, coaching, and sponsor support to help leaders develop their ideas, present stronger business cases, and have productive conversations with the CFO.
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
Trusted by Leaders Who Expect Results
What makes you and your team special in my humble opinion is what I might call your expert 'listening skills' and your 'gravity'. Some of our biggest challenges are to partner with people and organizations that are not burdened by nor do they show up with an 'agenda'.
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You listen first, align with our needs, then you seek to exceed the expectations of the organization. The 'gravity' that I speak of is how you draw people into a dialogue and make them comfortable with otherwise complex concepts around project and progam management.
Charles Wallace
VP and CIO, Keystone Foods
Great project managers are like those amazing team players who set the standard of excellence for everyone and help make all their teammates better. They become the heartbeat of your organization.
Dawn's approach is living proof that those players aren't just born, they are made. She's done that for me twice in very different settings to great success. Her practical approach doesn't just build project management capacity in your organization - it helps change your culture.
Rick Negrin, Esq.
Former NFL Player, Pennsylvania Secretary of Environmental Protection, and C-Suite Executive
Working with Dawn's team was a true pleasure. They helped us transform a disorganized group of individual initiatives into a cohesive project portfolio. Through this process we were able to deliver significant value to the organization. The team was always on time with its deliverables and brought our project in under budget. I would welcome the opportunity to work with them again.
Robert W. Kintzer, Jr.
Director, Internal Audit Finance, Global Organization
RESOURCES
Start With Something Useful
Explore practical ideas, tools, research, and real client examples to help you make a better decision about what your organization needs next.
Client Success Stories
See how organizations have strengthened portfolios, developed project talent, and improved the way important work gets delivered.
Insights
Read practical guidance on PMO leadership, project delivery, sponsorship, talent development, resource management, and the realities of Projectland.
Projectland Books
Explore books, learning experiences, and resources that make the human side of PMO and project leadership easier to understand, discuss, and apply.
READY TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP?
Let’s Find the Right Place to Start
In a 30-minute Discovery Call, tell us what your organization is trying to accomplish, who is responsible for leading the work, and where delivery is getting difficult. We will answer your questions and explore together which solution, if any, could be the right fit.
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No canned presentation and no sales pressure. Just a straightforward conversation about your situation and whether we can help.