PMLG

Boot Camp to Prepare for the PMP® Examination
2026-03-02 09:00 - 2026-03-06 18:00, 2026-05-18 09:00 - 2026-05-22 18:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual Workshop, Virtual Workshop
Do you want to pass the PMP® examination on your first attempt? PMLG can help you do that! For over 25 years, PMLG has provided practical and proven tools and instruction for thousands of project managers who have passed the PMP® examination on their first attempt. Coupled with PMI’s training materials, our training tools, techniques, and highly experienced instructors make all the difference. While other PMP® preparation courses can be dry, tedious and boring, our training uses the same exciting and knowledgeable instructors that deliver our unique experiential-based training.

During this five-day program you will participate in exercises and games to help you gain and retain the knowledge necessary for successfully completing the examination. You will participate in a series of practice tests to measure your progress, to help you and your instructor focus on areas that need improvement, and to help you grow your test-taking skills.

PMLG’s virtual PMP Exam Prep classes are taught live by our certified and highly experienced US based instructors in an online virtual training environment. There is no need to travel. In the live environment, you will get real-time coaching and answers to your questions. Training materials will be shipped directly to your home. PMLG utilizes a secure Zoom connection for all of our virtual, instructor-led training enabling you to participate from anywhere in the world.

We limit our class size so that our talented instructors can provide one-on-one coaching support to address each student’s unique requirements. Finally, our instructors will share with you practical and proven tips for successfully taking and passing the examination.

Tools and support materials that you will receive during this exciting program include:

PMI’s comprehensive class handbook and study guide
PMLG’s takeaway memory exercises that you can practice at home
Practice tests covering all study areas and question types
An individualized study plan (if you do not take the examination right away)
Tip Sheets: Proven tips for successfully taking the examination, in an easy to review format
Free telephone/online coaching support from your PMLG instructor
If you take the exam within 30 days of the completion of your course and do not pass on the first attempt, PMLG will provide additional coaching and you may attend an upcoming scheduled class for no additional charge (note that you will be responsible for PMI retesting charges).

PMLG is an authorized training partner for PMI and our instructors are certified to deliver PMP® Examination Preparation training.
Course fee includes class materials developed by PMI, invaluable supplemental exercises and practice tests developed by PMLG and class delivery by PMLG’s ATP certified instructors.
Course fee does not include PMI membership fee, PMP® exam / re-exam fees charged by PMI., PMBOK® (PMI members can download as part of their membership benefits).
Contact Sean Boyle at sboyle@pmlg.com or 678 325 1100

“I couldn’t have done it with YOU. Much appreciation!”
“The practice test questions were outstanding and helped me to focus on my weak areas”
“This course was invaluable to my successfully passing the PMP®!”
“I took the PMP® exam on the last day of PMLG’s PMP® Exam Prep Class
and passed with flying colors! I could not have done it without the training!!”

Certified Project Manager (CPM)® Boot Camp Leadership Certification - 56 PDUs
2026-03-09 - 2026-03-13, 2026-05-11 - 2026-05-15, 2026-07-13 - 2026-07-17, 2026-09-14 - 2026-09-18, 2026-11-16 - 2026-11-20
The World’s Only Experiential Project Leadership Certification
Lead real projects, inspire teams, and deliver results—starting on Day One.
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Why This Training Works

Experiential, not lecture‑based. You’ll lead through realistic scenarios and simulations.
Performance‑based certification. Earn CPM® by demonstrating leadership in action.
Proven results. 40,000+ graduates across Fortune 100s and the U.S. military.

Dates
December 8 – December 12, 2025 (EDT)

Format
Live, virtual cohort with personalized coaching (limited to 20 participants)

Daily Schedule
Sessions start at 9:00 AM and run through the afternoon, with some optional evening coaching and team activities. The immersive format ensures you maximize your transformation in just five days.

Investment
$3,800 — includes all course materials, tools, and personalized instructor feedback.
Flexible payment plans available — we’ll work with you to find an option that fits your needs.

Seats
Limited to 20 to ensure hands‑on coaching and meaningful feedback.

What You’ll Do Over 5 Days

Lead a diverse project team through shifting priorities, risks, and conflict.
Plan with precision: WBS, bottom‑up estimating, critical path, risk control.
Make tough calls under pressure and keep momentum.
Present results and earn the CPM® by demonstrated performance.

Download: Qualifications of a Certified Project Manager (CPM)®

Who teaches CPM®?
Veteran program leaders Bill Stewart — CEO and founder, former Army Ranger, and PMO pioneer — and Sue Glaskey, PMLG’s Executive Program Director and Senior Instructor. With over 70 years of combined experience in project, program, and portfolio management, they have led PMOs, major transformations, and leadership programs for Fortune 100 companies and government organizations worldwide.

“The CPM Boot Camp changed my life. I successfully managed two major strategic projects after attending.”
Sr. Project Manager, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals

Note: This training often sells out. Registration closes on December 1st or when seats are filled.

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Quick FAQ
Is this recognized for PDUs? Yes — 56 PDUs (24 Technical, 28 Leadership, 4 Strategy).
Will I receive a certificate? Yes — upon successful performance across the course.
Do you offer team/private training? Yes — contact us for group options.

Implementing the Strategic Execution Office - 24 PDUs
2026-03-17 - 2026-03-19
The mission of a Strategic Execution Office is to successfully lead the transformation of the organization to a culture of strategic execution excellence. It accomplishes that mission through:

The implementation of a consistent approach to project, program and portfolio leadership across the organization
Development of a cadre of outstanding “A” and “B” level leaders who possess the skills, confidence and discipline to successfully plan and execution projects and programs of all sizes and complexity
Empowering project and program leaders and their teams with the tools, techniques, processes and support they need to be successful
Providing the organization’s leadership team with timely and accurate strategic portfolio decision support information

Fewer than 1% of all PMOs and EPMOs are successful in transforming their organizations to strategic execution excellence. Now you have the opportunity to successfully implement your Strategic Execution Office. Spend 3 highly productive days of learning and coaching with the architect of the Strategic Execution Office concept, Bill Stewart. He will provide you with individualized instruction and support in how to successfully implement a Strategic Execution Office and/or transform your PMO into an SEO. During this hands-on workshop, Bill will share with you the knowledge, tools and techniques he has gained over the 35 years he has been successfully implementing PMOs and EPMOs. Throughout this unique and powerful program, Bill will provide you with one-on-one coaching as you create your tactical and strategic roadmaps for successfully implementing and/or transforming your PMO to the Strategic Execution Office.
You will leave this program with a detailed transformation road map, Work Breakdown Structure, organizational change management plan and program, risk and communication plans, and blue print for your Strategic Execution Office.
Contact us at information@pmlg.com or 678 325 1100 to find out more.

WBS Approach to Project Success - 4 PDUs
2026-03-23 09:00 - 13:00
The foundation for the success for any project or program is the accurate identification of all of the deliverables that must by produced to provide a successful solution. Unquestionably, the most efficient and effective method for planning is the tree-diagram Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) approach to planning. This holistic approach to accurately identifying scope and estimating project size will significantly reduce your time to plan and estimate. This approach helps ensure that deliverables are not overlooked during the planning process. It provides a means for easily capturing the knowledge and experience of team members. It provides the foundation for accurate schedules. The WBS approach to planning is the most effective and efficient technique for accurately planning and estimating projects and programs. During this exciting workshop, you will learn how to successfully facilitate onsite and virtual planning session
Your instructor, Bill Stewart, has been teaching and facilitating Work Breakdown Structures for over 35 years. This is your opportunity to learn from the expert on WBS planning and estimating. This exciting, virtual workshop that will provide you with the skills, experience and confidence to efficiently and effectively produce work breakdowns for all of your projects and/or programs.
You will learn how to:

Rapidly identify all deliverables that must be produced to successfully deliver your own project solutions
Decompose project and program solutions down to the work package level where ownership is assigned
Conduct accurate bottom up estimating
Build a library of WBS templates to be used in future project planning
Create a WBS on one of your own projects

If you have any questions and/or would like to learn how to bring this workshop onsite, contact us at information@pmlg.com or 678-325-1100.

Leadership Excellence Boot Camp - 24 PDUs
2026-03-24 - 2026-03-27
This unique and exciting project management and leadership training program provides an experiential-based environment in which students are immersed into a realistic and challenging team based project simulation. This exciting four-day program has proven to rapidly mature both the project management and leadership skills of its students. Students return from this training program with the skills, confidence and discipline to begin immediately applying what they have learned to their own projects. The return on your training investment will be immediate.
Our unique training approach provides students with the opportunity to learn in a safe environment, practical and proven techniques for managing and leading projects. Working in teams, they learn how to efficiently and effectively facilitate planning, problem solving, risk identification and conflict resolution sessions. Throughout the four days of training, students participate in realistic and challenging team exercises that reinforce important project management and leadership principles and techniques while at the same time, developing and testing each student’s leadership skills as well as the creativity of their teams.

Topics covered during this exciting program include:
Practical and proven leadership and team building techniques
Techniques for creative problem solving and conflict management
Techniques for effectively gathering requirements
Effectively and efficiently planning projects through the development of The High Level Project Charter, Detailed Tree Diagram Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and An effective Communication Plan
Conducting a detailed stakeholder assessment and organizational change plan!
An accurate estimate of project size in hours and cost
A detailed Project Schedule in which deliverables are clearly visible
Control projects through effectively and proactively managing client relationships implementing effective scope change management using the WBS as a foundation
Conducting impact analysis as well as crashing and fast tracking the project schedule as necessary
Obtaining client sign-off
Capturing lessons learned that are easy to access and re-use

PMLG’s dynamic instructors each have over 20 years of successful project and program management experience and 100% of their focus is on providing students with the skills, confidence and discipline to successfully lead any project.
This program is based on PMLG’s five day Certified Project Manager (CPM) Boot Camp, the world’s only experiential-based project leadership training and certification program.
Contact us at information@pmlg.com or 678 325 1100 to find out how an on-site boot camp can rapidly mature the skills of your professionals.

The Program and Portfolio Management Advanced Certification (PPMC)®- 40 PDUs
2026-04-06 09:00 - 2026-04-09 17:00, 2026-06-08 09:00 - 2026-06-11 17:00, 2026-08-10 09:00 - 2026-08-13 17:00, 2026-10-12 09:00 - 2026-10-15 17:00, 2026-12-07 09:00 - 2026-12-10 17:00
Join PMO pioneer and program and portfolio management thought leader Bill Stewart as he provides you with advanced skills, tools, and techniques for successfully initiating and executing programs and portfolios of any size and complexity. You will plan a program to transform your organization to successfully support project, program and portfolio management. You will learn how to link projects and program to strategic initiatives, prioritize them, establish and facilitate governance committees, balance portfolios, monitor interfaces between projects, programs and portfolios, manage resource capacity, develop heat map and establish and manage a stage gating process. You will learn practical and proven techniques for communicating with and managing sponsors, executives and steering committees and as a program manager, develop and lead a team of disciplined and talented project managers. You will leave this training with a comprehensive set of program and portfolio management templates and tools, a portfolio prioritization tool, tips and techniques that you can immediately apply when you return to your organization.
Key topics presented during the PPMC® 4 day training and certification program include:

Conducting successful business transformations to project, program and portfolio management excellence
Successfully implementing PMOs that transform corporations to a culture of strategic execution excellence.
Identifying and linking projects and programs to strategic initiatives
Developing, measuring and balancing strategic portfolios
Implementing and using project and program prioritization
Implementing and using effective resource capacity planning
Implementing and using stage gating
Creating effective dashboards
Building and managing governance boards
Creating business cases
Initiating and planning programs
Conducting effective benefits realization tracking
Developing the program work breakdown structure and conducting bottom up estimating
Developing and leading project managers
Conducting quantitative and qualitative risk management
Executive relationship management
Managing vendors and contractors
Identifying and managing program interfaces and interdependencies
Developing integrated program schedules
Implementing a benefits realization program
Developing and using effective dashboard reporting
Identifying projects in trouble and techniques for recovery
Program and Project scope change management
Capturing and reusing project and program history

PPMC graduates demonstrate the skills, knowledge and discipline to successfully transform their organizations to strategic execution excellence. Many of our graduates are now C Level executives, applying PPMC techniques to transforming their own corporations.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the architect of the PMO concept and a thought leader in project, program and portfolio management and leadership. Contact Sean Boyle at sboyle@pmlg.com or 678 325 1100 with any questions you might have and/or to ask about Corporate and PMI discounts.
Hear from our PPMC Graduates:
“I found your teachings and insight invaluable. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences. From top to bottom, a great trip and well worth the time and investment.”
Paul S. Kandel PPMC
Strategic IT Project Management Lead
“Thank you for everything – sharing your knowledge about project and portfolio management… showing you genuinely care about people and assuring they learn the skills for success. I greatly enjoyed the program and hearing the examples of your vast experience.”
Belinda Smith, PMP, PPMC, LBC | Senior Manager
Aflac Worldwide Headquarters
“Thank you so much for the training. I learned a lot and am going to be heavily using it immediately.”
Sharon Sefcik Carroll, PPMC, CPCU | Director Governance
USAA
Contact Sean Boyle at 678-325-1100 or sboyle@pmlg.com if you have questions or need help.

Project Management for Success - 24 PDUs
2026-05-27 - 2026-05-29
This comprehensive three-day project management virtual workshop will provide you with hands-on experience and skills in successfully leading projects. You will learn efficient and effective techniques for team building, planning and controlling any type of project. Throughout the workshop, you will apply what you learn to a realistic and challenging project. Topics covered in this exciting program include:

Successfully facilitating planning and team building sessions
Applying the Work Breakdown Structure approach to planning and estimating
Preparing and introducing the Communication Plan
Conducting stakeholder assessments
Facilitating risk identification sessions
Preparing and controlling project schedules
Managing scope
Capturing and reporting status
Closing out projects

Day 1: The focus is on proper project initiation and planning. You will learn how to quickly identify the vision, need and objectives of the project. You will prepare a high level project charter, communication plan, and high level WBS
Day 2: You will learn how to facilitate planning workshops; develop a detailed WBS and bottom up estimate; and conduct successful risk and stockholder assessments
Day 3: You will learn how to translate deliverables from the WBS into an accurate project schedule; how to track and control your project and successfully close it out
Throughout the workshop, you will be presented with realistic project leadership scenarios that will strengthen your skills and provide you with the confidence to immediately begin applying what you have learned to your own projects.

Advanced Risk Management Certification (CARM) - 24 PDUs
2026-06-01 09:00 - 2026-06-03 17:00
Failure to identify, accurately assess and manage risks throughout projects is a primary cause for project, program and strategic failure. It is our role as leader to ensure proper identification and mitigation of risks or threats.
Completion of PMLG’s Certificate in Advanced Risk Management ensures that you have knowledge, skills, experience and confidence to identify and respond to all risks. Using our experiential-based immersion training approach, we will delve into advanced quantitative risk techniques to demonstrate how historical financial impacts of issues can be used to help guide decision making.
Topics covered in this exciting certification program include:

Overview of Project, Program and Portfolio Risk Management
Organizational and Brand Risk Management
The Role of the Stakeholder Analysis and Work Breakdown Structure in Risk Planning
Creating an “Envelope” of Outstanding Risk Management
Efficiently and Effectively Conducting Risk Assessments
Qualitative Risk Assessment
Quantitative Risk Analysis Tools and Techniques
Agile and Hybrid Risk Management
Expected Monetary Value
Decision Tree Analysis
Risk Prioritization and Assigning Risk Response Ownership
Risk Response Planning
Risk Responses for Positive and Negative Risks
Incorporating Risk Response into Schedules and Budgets
Best Practices in Risk Monitoring and Control
Conducting Risk Impact Analysis During Schedule Compression and Change Control
Discussing Risks, Potential Impacts and Needs with Key Stakeholders
Capturing Risks and Issues During Lessons Learned for Future Planning
