PMO and Smartsheet expertise that actually delivers.

Senior practitioners who stand up PMOs, rescue troubled programs, and turn Smartsheet into the operating system your portfolio actually runs on.

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20+ yrs
Practitioner delivery
Smartsheet
Partner-grade builds
PMO + Eng
Two practices, one team
Services

How we help clients.

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Consultants reviewing a Smartsheet portfolio dashboard together
Headline practice
01 Smartsheet

Smartsheet Implementation

Build-outs, dashboards, Control Center, and the workflows that hold a portfolio together.

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02 PMO

PMO Stand-Up

Governance, intake, reporting cadence, and the tooling backbone — set up to run.

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A program team working through a governance and intake plan
03 Recovery

Program Recovery

Triage, replan, stabilize, hand back. Senior practitioners on the ground.

72h
Triage to replan
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04 Enablement

Training & Enablement

Role-based curricula, office hours, and playbooks that make the operating model stick.

Role-based curricula Office hours Playbooks
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Headline specialization

The Smartsheet practice clients ask for by name.

Years inside Smartsheet — Control Center, dashboards, automations — applied with the discipline of senior PMO practitioners.

Control Center & portfolio scale
Provisioning, blueprints, summary roll-ups, governance for hundreds of projects.
Dashboards executives actually open
Status, risk, financials — pulled live from the work, not retyped on Mondays.
Workflows, automations, adoption
Approvals, alerts, intake forms — plus the ops habits that make them stick.
Complementary capability

Software & cloud engineering to round out delivery.

When a PMO or Smartsheet engagement runs into the limits of out-of-the-box tooling, our engineering bench picks up the work — without changing vendors mid-program.

Note. Available standalone for technical-only engagements.
Smartsheet / API integrations & automation
Bridge Smartsheet with Jira, Salesforce, ERPs, data warehouses.
Cloud infrastructure & DevOps
AWS / Azure landing zones, IaC, CI/CD, observability.
Custom application development
Internal tools, lightweight web apps, data products.
Approach

Discover → Design → Deliver → Sustain.

1
T+0

Discover

Listen, audit, surface the real constraints. Two weeks, fixed fee.

2
T+2w

Design

Co-design operating model, governance, and tooling — on paper.

3
T+6w

Deliver

Stand it up. Configure, integrate, train. Embedded with your team.

4
T+90d

Sustain

Hand-back with a 90-day support tail. Optional ongoing office hours.

Practitioners · credentials · prior-role outcomes

A two-partner firm of senior practitioners.

New firm, not new practitioners. Below: who runs the work, the credentials we hold today, and outcomes from named programs in prior roles — attributed to the practitioner.

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Founder · 01

[ Founder Name ]

Practice Lead · PMO & Smartsheet

Short bio placeholder. Two to three sentences on prior career, named programs, and the practitioner-level conviction that shapes how engagements get run.

20+ yrs PMP SS Cert
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Founder · 02

[ Founder Name ]

Engineering Lead · Software & Cloud

Short bio placeholder. Two to three sentences on prior career, named programs, and the practitioner-level conviction that shapes how engagements get run.

20+ yrs AWS Azure
Credentials held by Istari practitioners
Selected outcomes · prior roles
PMO Stand-Up
“Stood up the PMO for a [N]-program portfolio; cut status-reporting cycle from 5 days to same-day.”
[ industry · scale ] · prior role
SS Consolidation
“Migrated a [N]-project portfolio to Smartsheet Control Center; replaced 14 exec decks with one live dashboard.”
[ industry · scale ] · prior role
Recovery
“Took over a red program; replanned, stabilized, and delivered the [milestone] within [window].”
[ industry · scale ] · prior role
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