Breakout Session

From Tracking to Transformation: The Engine of Scalable PMO

Thursday, Nov 5 | 4:00PM - 5:00PM

Details

Savills runs a 7-year client programme with 37 live projects, each built by hand and maintained by one person, with growth toward 100+ projects. Manual work can't scale. Programme Director Victoria ter Kuile shares how she rebuilt Savills' PMO using Control Center, Blueprints, Global Updates, and Dynamic View. See how one governed blueprint spins up projects automatically, pushes portfolio-wide changes in minutes, and cuts single-person risk, turning the PMO from status chaser into strategic delivery enabler.

Content Track

Built to Transform: How Real Teams Reinvented the Way They Work

Location

Room 320 - Level 3

Speakers

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Cori Lamberson

Enterprise Account Executive - Strategic

Cori Lamberson is an Enterprise Account Executive at Smartsheet, partnering with strategic enterprise customers to define their vision and drive results at scale. Today, she joins her customer, Marisela Soria, Manager of Business Process Automation at Grainger to share how Grainger built a connected PMO on Smartsheet, moving from fragmented spreadsheets to a governed system.

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Marisela Soria

Manager, Business Process Automation

Marisela Soria transforms complex operational challenges into scalable, technology-enabled solutions. As the magician behind Grainger Corporate Real Estate's Smartsheet-powered Project Management Office (PMO), Marisela connects people, processes, and data to create smarter ways of working, improve productivity, and accelerate project delivery. With a practical, business-first approach to innovation, she believes the real value of automation isn't simply doing things faster—it's giving teams the clarity, capacity, and confidence to deliver better business outcomes.