Analyst Profile

Lorri Callahan

Lorri Callahan

VP, Team Manager

3 years at Gartner,  25 years industry experience

Location:  NJ USA  | Language(s):  English

Roles and Responsibilities

Lorri Callahan is a Vice President and Team Manager for Gartner's Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) team. Ms. Callahan's research areas of focus include portfolio and program management, enterprise agility, and scaled agile. Prior to joining Gartner, Ms. Callahan had various practitioner experiences including the design and creation of an agile transformation office focused on achieving business agility as the critical complement to the growing adoption of agile ways of working in IT. She has proven the tangible benefits to be gained by embracing a growth mindset that agile not only inspires but requires to be successful. She knows the challenges inherent in PPM transformation efforts, and values the importance of practical approaches to enable incremental progress to ensure clients' goals are achieved.

Background

Previous Experience

Ms. Callahan brings over 20 years of experience working in the financial services industry. Her roles have included leading enterprisewide system implementations, leading IT PMOs, IT strategy development, and agile transformation. Her career evolved from managing projects of increasing complexity, to organizing and prioritizing programs and portfolios of work, to transforming how traditional PPM meets the needs of digital transformation. Ms. Callahan has also developed dashboards, metrics/KPIs to track performance against expected business outcomes. She has successfully coached business leaders and their teams in the journey of agile adoption. She is a proven leader of program/portfolio management, quality assurance testing teams, and IT sourcing management.

Professional Background

  • Peterson & Staeger, Inc., Field Project Manager, 3 years
  • Prudential Financial, Vice President, Strategy and Administration, 23 years

Education

  • B.S., Business Administration, Montclair State University

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