From Status Reports to Strategy
Priya Udeshi
Chief of Staff-CIO | IT PMO Leader
Your IT Portfolio Runs on Frameworks Built for a Slower Era
Your IT organization is producing status reports no one reads, while AI initiatives launch with no governance or visibility. Investments aren't clearly tied to business priorities, and leadership is losing confidence in IT's ability to deliver value. You've adopted Agile or SAFe, but how you govern and communicate hasn't evolved with it. AI is compressing delivery timelines from quarters to weeks, and your governance cadences are still running at last year's speed.
You know your IT organization delivers real value. You just can't articulate it to Leadership in a way that lands.
This course gives you the system to fix that. You'll build a portfolio governance framework connecting every technology investment, including AI, to measurable business priorities. An operating rhythm built for speed, not last year's calendar. A one-page executive view your CIO will actually use. A prioritization model that makes trade-offs visible when everything is urgent. And a value proposition that repositions your function as a strategic accelerator.
You leave with a system built around your actual portfolio that is yours to keep, not a hypothetical case study.
What you’ll learn
Build the governance system that turns your IT organization from a cost center Leadership questions into a strategic accelerator they trust.
Complete the IT Execution Maturity Assessment to identify your top 3 gaps against AI-era leadership expectations
Walk away with a clear, evidence-based picture of where governance is helping vs. holding you back
Use the Investment Classification Framework to map every initiative, including AI, to 3-5 measurable priorities
Build a Portfolio-to-Strategy Alignment Map for your own organization's real portfolio
Build cadences that drive decisions in days, not quarters
Run a "Stop Doing" audit to eliminate meetings and reports that don't produce decisions
Create a 1-Page Portfolio Health View surfacing delivery velocity, value realization, and AI readiness
Practice presenting it live and get direct feedback from Priya and your peer cohort
Apply a prioritization model built for a portfolio where priorities shift monthly
Learn to sequence AI, cloud, and legacy initiatives against real constraints, not gut feel
Write your IT Value Proposition, the document that shows leadership how technology drives outcomes
Leave with a 30-day action plan to put everything you've built into practice immediately
Learn directly from Priya
Priya Udeshi
IT Portfolio & Transformation Leader — MongoDB, Peloton, Financial Services
Who this course is for
Directors of IT PMO, Heads of Portfolio Management, and IT Transformation Leads who own how technology gets prioritized and governed.
Chiefs of Staff and Senior Enterprise Program Leaders driving alignment across strategy and execution without full authority
Rising Technical Program Managers stepping into leadership at mid-to-large enterprises, ready to operate at a more strategic level
Prerequisites
5+ Years in Program, Portfolio, or IT Delivery
You've run programs or portfolios and understand delivery basics. This course builds strategic and executive skills on top of that.
Familiarity With Your Organization's Portfolio
You'll apply frameworks to your own context throughout the course. Come ready to think through real (not hypothetical) priorities.
A Current Leadership or Senior IC Role
Built for people already operating with real influence over prioritization, governance, or delivery
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Priya Udeshi in a real-time, interactive format.
Live sessions
Five 60-minute sessions taught by Priya, not pre-recorded. Every week you're in the room — asking questions, working through real scenarios from your own portfolio, and getting direct feedback. This is where the frameworks actually become yours.
Small cohort of senior IT/PMO leaders
Capped at 15 seats so everyone gets real airtime. You'll know your cohort by name, get hot-seat coaching in front of the group, and build a peer network of people navigating the same shift.
Seven portfolio-ready artifacts
An IT execution maturity audit, a portfolio governance framework, an operating rhythm redesign, a 1-page portfolio health view, an IT value proposition, a prioritization model, and a "stop doing" list. Every artifact is built using your actual organization's data — not a hypothetical case study — and is yours to use immediately.
One continuous operating system, built week by week
All five weeks build on each other, moving from diagnosis to alignment to governance to communication to positioning. By Week 5 you have a complete, connected execution system, not five disconnected exercises.
Live hot seats and peer coaching
Every session includes live hot seats where you present your real gaps, trade-offs, and drafts for group coaching. You'll pressure-test your thinking against a room of peers facing the same challenges.
AI-Ready Portfolio & Transformation Toolkits included
All frameworks, templates, and toolkits are included with enrollment — the same tools used to build every artifact in the course.
Session recordings and lifetime access
Every live session is recorded and yours to keep. Revisit a specific framework, catch up if life gets in the way, or return to the material as your role evolves.
Instructor feedback throughout
Priya reviews cohort work directly across the five weeks — not just a rubric, but specific, applied feedback on your actual portfolio governance framework and executive view.
30-day action plan
A concrete post-course plan built in Week 5, sequencing exactly how you'll implement what you've built — your operating rhythm, your governance changes, and your value proposition — in your organization.
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Course syllabus
Week 1
Nov
3
DIAGNOSE — Where Is Your IT Execution Capability Falling Short?
Week 2
Nov
10
ALIGN — Connect Technology Investments to Business Outcomes
Schedule
Live sessions
1-2 hrs / week
Tue, Nov 3
5:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
Tue, Nov 10
5:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
Tue, Nov 17
5:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
Projects
1-2 hrs / week
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