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Delivery Leadership,
Embedded.

Fractional PMO & program leadership for teams that need to execute, not just plan.

Not sure where to start?

Start here.

Most organizations know something is off before they can name it. Timelines slip. Priorities shift. Execution is inconsistent. But committing to an ongoing engagement before you understand the real problem is the wrong move — for both of us.

The Honesty Audit is how we start.

In one or two focused weeks, we assess your delivery systems, identify the real gaps, and give you a clear picture of what needs to change and in what order. No softened findings. No sales pitch disguised as analysis. Just a direct, senior-level read on where you are and what it will take to get where you need to be.

The deliverable is The Findings — a structured brief covering areas for improvement, a recommended plan, and if it's the right fit, a proposed engagement scope.

Focused Findings

One priority area

A targeted assessment of your most urgent delivery challenge — with a direct, senior-level read and a clear recommended path forward.

Full Findings

End-to-end assessment

A comprehensive look across your delivery systems, portfolio, and operating model — covering what's working, what isn't, and what needs to change in what order.

Three ways we show up.

Every engagement is scoped to your situation. We don't sell packages — we match the work to what you actually need.

Advisory

Strategic oversight and executive advising for organizations that need senior delivery leadership without a full-time hire.

What changes for you

  • You stop making delivery decisions in a vacuum — there's a senior voice in the room who's seen this before
  • Leadership gets an honest read on where things stand and what's actually at risk, not a softened status update
  • Escalation paths get cleaner — fewer things fall through the cracks because no one owned the call
  • Your PMO function gets healthier without adding a full-time headcount or a lengthy hiring cycle

When to bring us in

Your organization is scaling faster than your delivery infrastructure can support. Decisions are taking too long. You need a senior voice without the commitment of a full-time PMO leader.

"Most delivery problems aren't execution problems — they're clarity problems."

In practice

At Microsoft, Janessa was engaged to bring delivery clarity to two concurrent developer support programs for Windows Phone and Surface — establishing QA processes and metrics dashboards that standardized how both programs operated. No full-time role. Measurable results.

Fractional PMO

Active PMO and delivery leadership embedded with your team on a structured, recurring basis.

What changes for you

  • Projects stop slipping — your team operates inside a delivery framework that creates predictability instead of chasing it
  • Leadership gets real portfolio visibility: what's in flight, what's at risk, and what needs a decision — in one place
  • Your team builds delivery capability that holds after the engagement ends, not a dependency on external oversight
  • You get the PMO function your organization needs without the full-time cost or the six-month hiring cycle

When to bring us in

Your team is executing inconsistently. Projects slip. Priorities shift without warning. You don't have clear visibility into what's in flight. You need more structure but aren't ready for a full-time PMO leader.

"The right delivery infrastructure doesn't add overhead — it removes it."

In practice

At The Home Depot, Janessa consolidated three legacy reporting sources and nine manual reports into a single automated executive dashboard — eliminating 20+ hours of monthly manual effort and giving senior leadership real-time portfolio visibility for the first time. The system kept running after she moved on.

Embedded

Deep operational partnership with your team. This is transformation leadership — inside your organization, not observing from outside it.

What changes for you

  • Stalled initiatives get unstuck — with someone who has the seniority to make hard calls and the credibility to bring teams along
  • Agile adoption actually takes root because it's led by someone who's done it at scale — not handed off as a framework to figure out internally
  • Your organization builds delivery infrastructure that outlasts the engagement: governance that holds, operating rhythms that stick, a PMO that runs without external support
  • You get a partner accountable to outcomes — someone who measures success by whether your delivery actually improves, not by deliverable count

When to bring us in

Your organization is undergoing significant transformation. Initiatives have stalled. You're rolling out Agile and it isn't taking. You need to operationalize AI. You're building a PMO from scratch and need someone in the room who's done it before.

"Transformation fails when it's designed from the outside and handed over."

In practice

At The Home Depot, Janessa led an enterprise-wide Agile transformation — taking product management best practice adoption from 0% to 80% across a 1,500-person organization, while scaling a delivery certification program from 500 to 1,500+ practitioners. At AWS, she governed three concurrent $25M+ program portfolios, building the infrastructure that unlocked 14 new global markets.

We don't hand you a playbook and leave.

Every engagement follows the same pattern: understand the real problem, build something that works, make sure you can run it without us.

Assess

Start with the truth.

We start with your current state: what's working, what's blocking, what's at risk. No assumptions. No pre-packaged answers.

Build

Build what actually holds.

We embed with your team and build the systems, cadences, and tools that create delivery clarity. We're in the work with you — not observing from the outside.

Transfer

Exit clean.

Everything we build is designed to work without us. We document, we train, we hand off — and we leave your team more capable than we found it.

Ready to build something that lasts?

We begin with a focused discovery session — no lengthy procurement, no extended contract terms for most engagements.

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