Sponsorship & Governance for Executives
A core workshop requirement of attaining the Role "CPGO" under accreditation by APMG
The role "CPGO" Chief Strategy Realization Officer requires 3 Core and 2 Elective Workshops
Workshop Overview
(2 days workshop) - This executive program introduces Portfolio, Program, and Project Governance (P3G) as a board- and executive-level governance system for directing, overseeing, and controlling investments and initiatives in line with organizational objectives. Anchored in the 10 Foundations of P3G, the course clarifies how effective governance ensures clear accountability, informed decision-making, transparency, and assurance, while avoiding over-control and bureaucracy. Rather than focusing on delivery techniques, the program concentrates on how executives govern, how decisions are made and escalated, how value and risk are overseen, and how assurance is achieved across portfolios, programs, and projects.
Learning Objectives
- Understand P3G as an executive governance framework, grounded in the 10 Foundations.
- Clarify roles, responsibilities, and decision rights across portfolios, programs, and projects.
- Apply governance principles to investment approval, prioritization, and oversight.
- Strengthen transparency, assurance, and control without impeding delivery.
- Govern initiatives consistently from concept through delivery and closure
- It allows organisations and practitioners to understand and use principles to address specific circumstances
- Improve and implement effective governance arrangements for an organisation's portfolio of projects and programmes.
- Provide training for those in the organisation currently working in project management and PMOs
- There are also numerous benefits to the organisation with employees taking the P3GP - Project Programme & Portfolio Governance Professional
- Gain insight into how portfolio governance should drive investment outcomes
- Explore the importance of the business case from a P3G perspective
- Understand how to effectively separate project decision-making and stakeholder management for a project or programme and why it should be done
- Learn about the accountabilities and major responsibilities of key governance roles
- Discover the importance and treatment of accountability and empowerment within P3G
- Understand how the theory and principles should be applied in practice
- Gain essential knowledge and understand the theory and key principles of P3G
Get the chance of meeting with Jan-Willem Middelburg in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2 Days Workshop For Executives
November 7 Saturday - 9 Sunday 2026
Apply for the 2 days workshop of Sponsorship & Governance by Ross Garland
Check the other workshops required for the role "CPGO" to earn the certificate by APMG!
