Lightning Talk

Challenges to Solutions: A Smartsheet Story

Wednesday, Nov 5 | 8:25AM - 8:40AM

Details

Join us at Smartsheet ENGAGE for an inspiring Lightning Talk with Donna Golaski, Director of Global PMO. Donna will share how her team reimagined project management with Smartsheet, overcoming challenges and unlocking new levels of collaboration, visibility, and efficiency. Discover practical strategies from their journey and see how Adapture, as a platinum Smartsheet implementation and reseller partner, helped guide their success. Don’t miss this chance to learn directly from a leader driving real transformation with Smartsheet.

Content Track

Smartsheet solutions at work

Location

Experience Hub - Lightning Talk Theater

Speakers

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Donna Golaski

Senior leader and visionary in Strategy, Business Transformation

Donna is an accomplished senior leader and visionary in Strategy, Business Transformation, Continuous Improvement and Program Management. With extensive experience in project management, she leads global cross-functional teams and unifies end-to-end work streams to achieve strategic goals through simplification and automation. Expert in the effective design, development and deployment of high-performance technical and organizational strategy. Donna started at Cytiva in 2020, and has worked in several project management roles before reaching her current position of Director, PMO. She also serves as Chair on the Danaher Women+Friends US and Canada Steering Committee. She is an alumnus of Regis College and D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.

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Steve Reed

Smartsheet Practice Lead/Architect

After a 35-year career in technical project management and PMO leadership for large enterprises, I have led Adapture's Smartsheet Practice since December 2020. We achieved Platinum Partner status in 2022, and our growth has been incredible. I have been involved with Smartsheet since 2013—seven years as a client, and now five years on the consulting end. I am certified in both sales and implementation by Smartsheet’s Partner channel. I am a Washington, DC area native, but I have lived in Charleston, SC for 10 years.