Program Governance & PMO Stand-up
Cadence, decision rights, and the operating rhythm that keeps a program honest under pressure.
Independent Program & Transformation Advisory
The programs that matter are the ones you can’t afford to get wrong.
KL Strategy brings three decades of enterprise delivery to the ERP selections, cloud migrations, and stalled transformations that decide whether a company moves forward.
The Difference
In-house teams see one company. I’ve seen a hundred.
Thirty years across Accenture, Point B, and Microsoft is a lot of programs — good ones, bad ones, the ones that quietly went sideways. That library of pattern recognition is what an internal team can’t build on its own, and it’s what shortens the ramp when the clock is already running.
What you get is an outside-in read on the work, delivered by someone with no agenda in the org chart: honest risk, plain trade-offs, and a program spine that holds under executive scrutiny.
What I do
Four ways I show up.
ERP & Cloud Transformation
Oracle, SAP, and hyperscaler migrations — from business case through cutover, without the theater.
Vendor & SI Selection
Structured selection that surfaces real capability, not the slide deck. Contracts built to hold.
Fractional Program Leadership
Senior program leadership on demand for the quarters that decide whether the initiative lands.
Selected engagements
A short list of the work that shaped the practice.
- $280M
Enterprise datacenter transformation
Self-funding financial model, executive sign-off - $30M
Oracle ERP implementation
6 workstreams, 40+ stakeholders - First
Microsoft manufacturing facility outside China
Board-mandated stand-up, cross-border teams - $9.5M
Datacenter migration
Mainframe + 326 servers, 100+ stakeholders, minimal disruption
Approach
Diagnose. Design. Deliver.
01
Diagnose
Read the program honestly — the risk, the politics, the gaps between the plan on paper and the work on the ground.
02
Design
Set governance, decision rights, and the financial model. Make the trade-offs explicit before they become surprises.
03
Deliver
Steady, senior leadership until it lands. Predictable cadence, clean escalations, no drama.
About Kirby
Thirty years of enterprise delivery, distilled into one advisor.
Kirby Lull is a program and transformation leader with three decades across Accenture, Point B, and Microsoft, most recently as a Principal Business Architect. He has led the datacenter migrations, ERP implementations, and cross-border stand-ups that other people describe as career-defining.
MBA, University of Washington Foster School. Based in the Greater Seattle area, working with enterprise clients across North America.
“The job isn’t to be the smartest person in the room. It’s to make sure the room can decide.”
Kirby Lull — Founder
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