A PMO Training Company That Loves to Support PMO Practitioners in Their Development

PMO Learning is PMO Training

Welcome to PMO Learning

Hi! We’re Eileen Roden and Lindsay Scott, two people with a passion for PMO and learning. Putting the two of those together really makes us happy.

We started PMO Learning in 2017 after many years of working in PMOs; recruiting and teaching PMO practitioners and bringing people together through conferences and networking events.

We enjoy delivering PMO courses that really help PMO practitioners make a difference in their PMOs.

Alongside the PMO certification courses offered, we create specialist courses that really focus on specific challenge areas for PMOs. We listen to what PMO practitioners need in their roles then create courses that help plug the knowledge gap and provide practical guidance to improve skillsets.

We also love collaborating with client organisations to create unique learning experiences for their PMO teams (and wider delivery teams!) and build longer term relationships so we’re always on hand to assist with new learning and development requirements. When we understand your business; we create learning that meets your business needs.

We are also proud to be a Consulting Member of the House of PMO.

2017

We were born on the 10th January and launched the three PMO certification courses soon after to the UK market. We secured the sole rights to deliver the AIPMO IPMO Certification courses alongside BCS PPSO and AXELOS P3O.

During the first year we delivered our first open public courses; spoke at a number of UK and international conferences. At the end of the year we started to deliver in-house courses to PMO teams and finished the first year on a high.

2018

Throughout 2018 we introduced the specialist courses. We listened to what PMO practitioners were routinely challenged with and responded with shorter courses that really hit those problem spots.

Throughout 2018 we also introduced bespoke classes and shorter workshop type training for client organisations.

Throughout the year we were once again invited to speak at several conferences and internal customer community of practice events.

2019

In 2019 we expanded the team to help manage the increasing course schedule; in-house course delivery and creation of a number of different specialist courses.

We continued to be invited to speak at conferences and symposiums and are seen as industry leaders in PMO.

2020

Well 2020 didn’t turn out to be the year we all expected yet in many ways the rollercoaster of a ride put us in a different, but not unwelcomed, place.

We turned to virtual classroom training and saw some of the highest levels of P3O training take up.

2020 saw us bring the Enterprise Portfolio Management specialist course to the market.

2021

One door closes and another opens.

Due to the ongoing pandemic, we have suspended delivery of AIPMO courses (we need the real classroom to deliver them!)

Newly launched in February 2021, House of PMO’s professional certification courses will be available from May 2021. We started delivering the first level – PMO Administrator in July 2021.

2022

Throughout 2022 the House of PMO Essentials courses for Analysts, Managers and Directors were launched and PMO Learning were the first to offer all four course levels.

We also started offering the Management of Portfolios (MoP) course and added the Assurance for PMO Practitioners specialist course.

2023

We had another busy year in 2023, we added the popular P3 Governance training to our certification courses and launched the specialist course, Continuous Improvement for the PMO.

2024

In 2024 we had a huge focus on PMO training for organisations. We ran a lot of In-House and Bespoke courses in-person and virtually for a varierty of organisations. We also launched our Training Needs Anlaysis eBook to help you identify skill gaps, develop targeted training programs, and align your team’s development with your organisation’s goals.

About Eileen and Lindsay

When I first started work (many moons ago), I didn’t even know what a PMO was. I’m not even sure our company had one. My first role was in IT and I worked my way up through project management into IT management and then moved over to do an HR Manager Role. One of the challenges given to me was to forecast employee, contractor and consultant resources and associated costs for our projects. Success led me into a full time PMO role, looking at the wider costings and management of projects. It was here that I found a role I truly loved and began to recognise the value of a PMO to senior management and the Exec.

Moving to a new company as a PMO Manager, I was eager to learn from other PMO Managers and signed up for the PPSO SIG where I first met Lindsay. I also did a wide range of courses including PRINCE2, MSP and PPSO. What became clear very quickly was that no two PMOs were the same making each new role challenging and exciting.

My move into training and consultancy, now over ten years ago, has provided many opportunities to work with a diverse range of PMOs. I have always continued to network across industries through PPSO SIG and was instrumental in evolving this into the APM PMOSIG. PMO Flashmob and the PMO Conference provided wider networking opportunities and the chance to work more closely with Lindsay – a like minded PMO professional who takes work seriously whilst having fun.

Hi, I’m Lindsay, I’ve been around PMOs since the late 90s – working first as a Project Office Co-ordinator and later as the PMO Manager for Hewlett-Packard’s Consulting Division. I then became the co-founding Director for Arras People – the project management recruitment business and focused on PMO recruitment for a number of years. It felt like the wild west, not many businesses knew how to find the right kind of PMO talent for their business so there was certainly a lot of education going on. I also stayed part of the PMO community and met Eileen when we both volunteered for the PPSOSIG. The PPSOSIG was a community of PMO practitioners who met after taking the training course called the PPSO (Programme and Project Support Office), the people I met there, we’re still friends today and often get together whilst running and attending PMO Flashmob.

PMO Flashmob was set up about four years ago and is a networking and learning group for people working in PMO. With the success of that, the annual PMO Conference which takes place each June in London felt like a good progression. The last conference had 400 PMO practitioners in attendance, all eager to be inspired by PMO thought leadership.

PMO Learning felt like a natural progression. Eileen is the best PMO trainer in the UK and I just love getting people together to enjoy good quality learning experiences. Can’t wait to bring everything Eileen and I have always wanted from a training organisation – coupled with our total focus on PMO – to the UK market.