# Meet Laura Barnard, The PMO Lady

- **Episode:** [145](https://agents.truthliesandwork.com/episodes/145.md) (2024-11-14)
- **Type:** interview
- **Tags:** project-management, pmo, laura-barnard
- **Time:** 3:14–4:44 (start 194s)
- **Listen:** [https://truthliesandwork.com/145?t=194](https://truthliesandwork.com/145?t=194)

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[3:14] Laura Barnard: I am known as the PMO Lady, and in 2021 was named the top global influencer in the space, specifically because I think a lot of it has to do with The way we talk about the work that we're doing and how we're trying to elevate a whole industry to think differently about project management, business transformation, and get everyone aligned on trying to help organizations accelerate strategy delivery. Not too long ago, I released a book called The Impact Engine, which is all about accelerating strategy delivery. And it's designed for these people that are running these business transformation or strategy delivery functions inside organizations, which some people call a PMO. I started my career in the technology field in computer science and then found that there was this role for people who knew how to get other people to get things done. And that was called project management. So shortly after going into the project management field, I found that I really loved helping those get-it-done people get things done. And that's when I started building what is called a project management office, PMOs. And then in 2013, I started my own company called PMO Strategies for that project management office, specifically because I wanted to help other companies learn the easier way, all the things I had to learn the hard way, doing a lot of this work inside organizations. So over the years, that's what I've been doing
[4:40] midroll (Phil Agnew, Nudge): Leigh, can I start by asking a bit of a stupid question?
[4:43] Al Elliott: Never stopped you before