Before you change the PMO, make sure you're solving the right problem.
When something isn't working, the explanation that surfaces first isn't always the one the evidence supports.
Understand what's actually happening before you restructure teams, redesign governance, add process, or launch another transformation effort.
Explore Your Options
You know something isn't working.
Maybe delivery is inconsistent, even though your teams are working hard.
Maybe you've redesigned governance, but decisions are still taking too long.
Maybe the PMO is being asked to become more strategic, but no one can clearly explain what's preventing the shift.
Maybe you've inherited a PMO along with everyone else's diagnosis of what's wrong with it.
Or maybe you've been leading it long enough to recognize the symptoms, but the same problems keep returning despite everything you've tried.
The next move isn't always another solution. Sometimes it's a better diagnosis.
Choose the level of support you need.
Whether you need clarity around one consequential decision or deeper organizational alignment and transformation direction, both engagements are designed to help you understand before you prescribe.
Organizational Awareness Diagnostic™
When you need to know what you're actually dealing with before you decide what to change.
A focused, approximately three-week advisory engagement built around one consequential organizational concern.
We examine targeted evidence, organizational context, and selected stakeholder perspectives to determine what appears to be happening, what may be driving it, and what deserves leadership attention next.
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You leave able to say:
I can see clearly. I know what I'm dealing with. I can make the decision.
Approximately 3 weeks
Organizational Awareness Intensive™
When you need deeper understanding, leadership alignment, and a credible path forward.
An eight-week executive advisory engagement designed to move beyond diagnosis into deeper discovery, leadership alignment, and transformation direction.
Through the PM Muse Method™, we help leaders understand the organizational conditions shaping performance, align around what needs to change, and establish a credible path forward.
You leave able to say:
We know where we're going. My leadership team is aligned around what needs to change. We have a credible path forward.
8 weeks
90-Minute Organizational Awareness Workshop
A focused, interactive experience for project, program, PMO, and transformation teams.
Participants explore how organizational dynamics shape the work, practice distinguishing what they observe from what they assume, and use Decisions, Contradictions, and Conditions to examine what may actually be happening before deciding how to respond.
Available virtually or in person.
Half-Day Organizational Awareness Workshop
A deeper facilitated experience for teams ready to strengthen organizational awareness through practice.
Participants work through ambiguous organizational scenarios, compare interpretations, test assumptions, and apply Decisions, Contradictions, and Conditions to the kinds of complex situations experienced leaders navigate in real organizations.
Available virtually or in person.
Let's talk about what you're seeing.
Schedule an Executive Strategy Session
Meet Your Advisor
Dori Young, PMP®, PMI-PMOCP®
Dori Young is the founder of The PM Muse and a PMO transformation strategist and advisor with more than 20 years of experience leading complex programs, portfolios, PMOs, and transformation initiatives across technology, healthcare, insurance, and SaaS environments.
Her work is grounded in a simple observation: the problem an organization can see isn't always where the problem originates.
Throughout her career, Dori has helped leaders navigate the organizational conditions beneath delivery challenges, recognize patterns others may overlook, and make sense of what stakeholder behavior, decisions, competing priorities, and organizational friction are actually revealing.
Today, she works with PMO and transformation leaders to understand what their organizations are telling them before they prescribe what needs to change.
Her approach combines more than two decades of practical leadership experience, recognized PMI PMO practice, and the PM Muse Method™, an evidence-informed approach designed to help leaders understand before they prescribe.
Because better execution cannot compensate for the wrong diagnosis.
Let's talk about what you're seeing