Speaker

Emilie Visser is a Sales Consultant at AMX Consulting, a Smartsheet Platinum Solution Partner, where she helps organizations identify where processes and tools are holding them back and how Smartsheet can help them plan, manage, and automate their work at scale. She brings more than 14 years of experience as a digital and CRM project manager, including as Product Owner CRM & Client Data at LVMH. Her experience with Smartsheet began client-side in 2017 and carried into programs such as the simultaneous rollout of the Le Club Lacoste loyalty program to five European countries. That end-user perspective shapes how she designs solutions, from detailed delivery plans to executive dashboards covering portfolios of hundreds of initiatives. She holds PMP and Certified SAFe 6 Agilist credentials, along with the Smartsheet Builder Certificate of Achievement. AMX's recognitions include Smartsheet Partner of the Year EMEA.

 

Workshop: Portfolio Management Made Easy: The PMO Scalability Challenge
What happens when your organization grows from managing 10 projects to more than 100, but your project management office (PMO) processes don't scale with it? Veerle Simons and Emilie Visser take on that question in their interactive workshop, "Portfolio Management Made Easy: The PMO Scalability Challenge". This hands-on, practical session shows how scalable portfolio management creates value at every level (project, PMO, and portfolio), offering fresh perspectives and actionable insights to keep the focus on what matters most: delivering meaningful business value. The workshop is built around three common challenges: standardizing project delivery without losing flexibility, creating real-time portfolio visibility to focus on the projects that matter most, and using automation and AI to reduce administrative work and enable smarter, faster decision-making. Participants step into a real-world PMO challenge and work through it together, through audience participation, practical scenarios, and live Smartsheet examples. Drawing on AMX's implementation work with organizations such as HUGO BOSS and Canyon Bicycles, Veerle and Emilie show how PMOs can move beyond fragmented processes and manual reporting toward a standardized, automated, and insight-driven way of working. The result: project professionals who spend less time managing information and more time creating impact and building value for tomorrow.

 

Learning goals summary:

• Realize that scaling a PMO is not just about handling more projects; it's about building processes that keep delivering business value as the portfolio grows.
• Empower PMO leaders and project professionals to see portfolio growth not as a source of overload but as an opportunity to standardize, automate, and focus.
• Learn how to standardize project delivery without losing flexibility, and how real-time portfolio visibility keeps effort on the projects that matter most.
• Explore where automation and AI can cut administrative work and support smarter, faster decision-making.
• Get back to your PMO ready to trade manual reporting for an insight-driven way of managing your portfolio.