M&A and Enterprise Transformation Advisor

The advisory layer between strategy and results.

Different room. Same conversation.
The pattern underneath is people.

Deals, PMOs, transformations and disruptions all look like strategy problems on paper. In practice, each one is won or lost with people. Nobody changes how they work just because a plan says they should. People follow a person they’ve decided to trust long before they follow a plan.

Laura Clampitt
Laura Clampitt, PMP
Founder, Clampitt Advisory · M&A and Enterprise Transformation Advisor

With 18+ years leading M&A integration, PMO and enterprise transformation, I help leaders focus on what matters most and guide teams through hard decisions when the path forward is unclear.

I lead by listening first, building credibility, and turning resistance into shared commitment. The Moonglass™ Approach is how I make that repeatable, so the path from intent to outcome survives whatever changes along the way.

The Framework

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Reveal the path. Earn the trust. Preserve the promise.

Every strategic undertaking has an essential path connecting its original intent to the outcome it must deliver.

Like moonlight on water, the path is there if you know where to look. The Moonglass Approach brings the essential connections into focus so people can see where they’re going, believe in the direction, and choose to move forward together.

Whether applied at a single critical decision point or across the full lifecycle, Moonglass keeps the original promise from getting lost as circumstances change.

One moment, or the full lifecycle

Bring Moonglass in at a single critical moment, or across the full lifecycle. A la carte or end to end.

Before you commit
Test the intent before money and credibility are on the line.
As you launch
Set decision rights, owners and a plan people will actually follow.
While you deliver
Keep priorities, people and evidence aligned as conditions change.
After it’s called done
Confirm the value arrived and the change held after the team moves on.

What it is, and isn’t

Moonglass is
  • People-first advisory that connects intent to outcome
  • AI-supported, with people making the calls
Moonglass isn’t
  • A replacement for your team or your big-firm partners
  • An AI tool that makes decisions for you

Where It Applies

Where the path has to hold

The numbers below can look discouraging. Read them the other way: a pattern this consistent isn’t a mystery. It’s solvable, and it’s been solved before.

The gap between struggling and succeeding isn’t small. In PMI’s research, top-performing organizations see 92% of projects meet their original goals, versus 33% for underperformers. What sets them apart is discipline that lasts well past the visible milestones. The five disciplines below are how that gap closes. (PMI, Pulse of the Profession, 2017)

Every path starts the same way: a focused advisory call.

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The Foundation

Five disciplines, one lens

The same five gaps show up in every deal, PMO, transformation and disruption. Each discipline closes one, and AI is used only where it earns its place.

AI, where it earns its place. AI guides, challenges and earns its place. People make the calls, and one person stays accountable. AI should make people more capable, not replace them.

Case Studies

Recurring patterns, real experience

Six patterns across the four paths, each with the data behind it, what the successful few do differently, and where it connects to my own work.

A note on how these are built. The pattern, the data, and the "Relevant Experience" section in each case study below are real. To illustrate how a pattern actually plays out without describing any real client, employer, or deal, each case study also includes one scenario built around a composite, fictional company, clearly marked "Illustrative example" wherever it appears. Those scenes never describe my own direct experience; my real experience is called out separately, in its own labeled section.

Advisory

Start with a conversation

Every engagement starts with a focused advisory call on the one problem in front of you. From there, Moonglass can be applied at a single critical moment or across the full lifecycle.

What it is

A working session on one specific problem: a deal that’s coming or just closed, a PMO nobody trusts, a transformation that’s losing the room, or a disruption every function is reacting to on its own. We use the Moonglass lens to get past the symptom to what’s actually going on.

Who it’s for

Mid-sized companies that need senior judgment without a big-firm team or a big-firm price. Corporate development, executive sponsors, VPs and directors, transformation leads and PMO leaders who want an experienced outside read before a decision gets made, while there’s still room to change course.

What comes next

If it’s useful, we scope what fits: one critical moment, like before you commit or after it’s called done, or the full lifecycle. A la carte or end to end.

Worth saying plainly: Clampitt Advisory is a new practice, built on 18+ years of doing this work inside the business. Every engagement is scoped honestly to what you need, and nothing more.

Background

How this got started

I’ve done this work in deals, portfolios, transformations and disruptions, and kept noticing the same thing underneath each one.

Across 30+ enterprise M&A integrations and divestitures, I built the governance standards that became the enterprise standard, the operating model every future deal inherited rather than a one-off fix. I built a Program and Change Management Center of Excellence, with a tiering model and value standard designed alongside the leaders who had to live by them. I led the $1B Software & Services transformation that redesigned how the business needed to operate under a new commercial model, instead of running the old process through new infrastructure. When trade policy shifted overnight, I coordinated the response that protected approximately $8B in tariff-exposed revenue across five functions working off one shared picture.

Most recently, I built an M&A integration playbook in eight weeks and designed an AI plan for diligence and knowledge transfer, one that gets the knowledge right before recommending any tool, so the organization can run it without the team that built it.

Before any of that, I spent nine years scaling global education programs into 32 languages, reaching 10M+ educators. It was the same instinct at a different scale: build the structure that still works once the launch excitement fades and nobody’s watching as closely anymore.

Every one of these started as a strategy problem on paper and turned out to be won or lost with people. Clampitt Advisory exists because that pattern is solvable, and I’d rather help someone catch it early than watch it surface after the value is already gone.

BS, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science: Oregon State University PMP: Project Management Institute AI & Generative AI Professional Development: PMI, 2026

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laura@clampittadvisory.com
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