Kathryn Murphy
Director of Operations
Kathryn (Kat) Murphy leads Operations at Orases, bringing deep digital project management expertise to transform how businesses work across industries. After ten years excelling as a Digital Project Manager, she’s mastered the art of spotting workflow bottlenecks and creating streamlined solutions that solve complex business problems.
During her 15-year tenure at Orases, Kat has become known for expertly handling fast-paced digital environments while consistently hitting targets for scope, budget, and timelines. Her talent for optimizing operations and strategically deploying resources earned her current leadership position, overseeing core operations and mentoring the Digital Project Management team.
A University of Maryland grad with PMP® and Certified Scrum Master® credentials, Kat focuses on what truly matters: delivering operational excellence that eliminates inefficiencies, maximizes team performance, and drives organizational success.
Speaking Topics
Topic
Beyond the Triangle: Redefining Success Metrics in Modern Digital Projects
In this transformative session, Kathryn Murphy challenges traditional project management thinking by revealing how innovative operational frameworks can redefine digital project success beyond the iron triangle of scope, budget, and timeline. Drawing on her 15 years of experience at Orases and deep expertise in digital project management, Kat demonstrates how forward-thinking organizations are expanding their success metrics to encompass team wellness, knowledge preservation, and sustainable delivery practices. Through compelling case studies and practical frameworks, you’ll discover how measuring these broader outcomes creates more resilient teams, higher-quality deliverables, and stronger client relationships. Kat shares proven methodologies for implementing these expanded metrics while still meeting essential business objectives. This presentation equips digital leaders with actionable strategies to evolve their definition of project success, creating environments where teams thrive, knowledge grows, and delivery excellence becomes consistently achievable rather than occasionally attainable.
Key Takeaways:
- Learn practical approaches for implementing expanded success metrics that balance traditional scope-budget-timeline constraints with equally important factors like team sustainability, knowledge retention, and long-term client satisfaction.
- Understand how to effectively communicate the business value of these broader success metrics to stakeholders, demonstrating how they contribute to improved quality, reduced risks, and more predictable outcomes.
- Develop strategies for creating operational systems that naturally support these expanded metrics, transforming how teams work while delivering measurable improvements in both traditional project outcomes and these new dimensions of success.
Topic
Scaling Excellence: Creating Operational Systems that Grow with Your Organization
In this strategic presentation, Kathryn Murphy reveals the operational frameworks that enable organizations to maintain quality and efficiency during growth periods. Leveraging her extensive operational leadership experience and certified expertise in project management, Kat demonstrates how thoughtfully designed operational systems create the foundation for successful scaling without sacrificing delivery excellence. Through illuminating real-world examples and practical methodologies, you’ll discover how to develop operational processes that accommodate increasing complexity while preserving the core practices that drive success. Kat shares proven approaches for identifying which operational elements must remain consistent and which should evolve as organizations expand. This session is essential for leaders navigating organizational growth who seek to avoid the common pitfalls of scaling—where increased capacity often leads to decreased quality and efficiency—by implementing operational systems that enhance performance even as teams, projects, and business demands multiply.
Key Takeaways:
- Master practical frameworks for evaluating your current operational systems, identifying which elements will support or hinder organizational growth, and developing strategic plans to evolve operations alongside business expansion.
- Learn effective techniques for creating operational documentation, training programs, and knowledge management systems that preserve institutional wisdom and maintain consistent quality as teams grow and roles specialize.
- Develop strategies for building adaptable operational foundations that balance necessary standardization with the flexibility to accommodate different project types, team configurations, and business priorities in a growing organization.
