EIG 2010 May 23, 2011, July 11, 2011, November 17, 2011

For more than a decade Excellence in Government has been a leader in providing best practices to government innovators. This year, dramatic change is coming to government and agency leaders must be able to adapt strategically. Join us as we explore the evolving federal landscape.

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EIG Speakers

  • Angela Bailey

    Deputy Associate Director, Recruitment and Hiring, Office of Personnel Management

    Angela Bailey has dedicated 29 years to public service, with 26 of those years in human resources. She was selected for the Senior Executive Service in October 2007. As Deputy Associate Director for Recruitment and Hiring, she overseas the Office of Personnel Management’s hiring, classification, and recruitment policy, student ...

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  • Ann Calvaresi Barr

    Deputy Inspector General, Department of Transportation

    Ann Calvaresi Barr is the Deputy Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Transportation. As Deputy Inspector General, Ms. Calvaresi Barr is responsible for providing executive level leadership and direction of Office of Inspector General audits and investigations of transportation-related issues, as well as oversight of OIG operational support activities. 

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  • John Berry

    Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management

    John Berry is the federal government’s Chief People Person. As the Director of the United States Office of Personnel Management, he is responsible for recruiting, hiring, and setting benefits policies for 1.9 million federal civilian employees. Calling this a new day for the civil service, he is reinvigorating the federal workforce ...

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  • Richard Boly

    Director of the Office of eDiplomacy, Department of State

    Richard Boly is a career U.S. diplomat and currently the Director of the Office of eDiplomacy, an applied technology think tank for the Department of State.

    Previously, he was a National Security Affairs Fellow the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he launched the Global Entrepreneurship Program. He recently served ...

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  • Vice Adm. William Burke

    Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Fleet Readiness and Logistics, Department of the Navy

    Vice Admiral William Burke, a native of Hornell, N.Y., graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1978 with a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering. In 1985, he completed an MBA at Marymount University. In 1999, he earned an MS in National Security Strategy ...

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  • Rear Adm. Julius Caesar


    Vice Director, Joint Concept Development & Experimentation, U.S. Joint Forces Command

    Rear Admiral Julius S. Caesar is a 1977 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. He earned a Masters of Business Administration from the Executive MBA Program at the College of William & Mary. He is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar XXI Fellow in Foreign Politics, International Relations, and ...

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  • Jon Desenberg

    Policy Director, The Performance Institute

    As the Policy Director at The Performance Institute, Jon Desenberg works with Congress, the White House, federal agencies and other like-minded organizations in advancing the Institute’s mission to increase accountability and performance in government. With over 20 years of public management, Mr. Desenberg has worked with more than 120 federal organizations, non-profit agencies, and ...

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  • Jeffrey Guzzetti

    Assistant Inspector General for Aviation and Special Program Audits, Department of Transportation

    Jeff Guzzetti was appointed as the Assistant Inspector General for Aviation and Special Program Audits at the Department of Transportation's Office of the Inspector General in August 2010.  He manages an office of 90 auditors and staff that mostly conduct audits of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) programs ...

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  • Christine Hill

    Executive Vice President for Government Affairs, Wounded Warrior Project

    Lt. Col. Christine Hill (USAF, Ret.) is Executive Vice President, Government Affairs, for Wounded Warrior Project (WWP). She is responsible for orchestrating the organization’s legislative agenda through interactions with Congress and government agencies.

    Ms. Hill previously served as the Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Legislative Affairs in the Department of ...

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  • Patricia Hoban-Moore

    Director, Office of Field Policy and Management, Department of Housing & Urban Development

    Patricia A. Hoban-Moore is Director of the Office of Field Policy and Management at the Department of Housing & Urband Development (HUD).  She brings to the division unmatched experience in housing, community development, and public housing based on 30 years of service in both the federal and local sectors ...

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  • Jane Homeyer

    Deputy Associate Director for Human Capital, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

    Jane M. Homeyer, PhD, assumed the position of Deputy Associate Director of National Intelligence for Human Capital, for the Intelligence Community Chief Human Capital Officer, at the Office of the Director National Intelligence (ODNI) in March 2010.  She is responsible for establishing common competencies, professional standards, as ...

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  • Suzanne Kryder

    Executive Coach and Author

    Suzanne Kryder, Ph.D. owns a Washington, DC-based neuroleadership training and coaching company that blends leadership development with an understanding of how the mind works.

    Ms. Kryder has a doctorate in Health Education, with a minor in Organizational Behavior from the University of New Mexico and a Masters from The George Washington University. She has coached ...

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  • Paul Light

    Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service, Robert Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University

    Dr. Paul C. Light is NYU Wagner's Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service and founding principal investigator of the Global Center for Public Service.

    Before joining NYU, Dr. Light served as the Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, founding director of ...

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  • J. Christopher Mihm

    Managing Director for Strategic Issues, Government Accountability Office

    Chris Mihm is the Managing Director for Strategic Issues at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. He leads GAO’s work on governance reforms. The Office of Strategic Issues addresses such topics as strategic planning and performance management, budgeting and the nation’s long-term fiscal outlook, human capital management and civil service ...

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  • Anthony W. Miller

    Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer, Department of Education

    Anthony "Tony" Wilder Miller is Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer at the Department of Education. In this role, he manages a broad range of operational, management and program functions.

    Prior to joining the department in 2009, Mr. Miller was an operating partner with Silver Lake, a leading private equity firm ...

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  • Allan Schweyer

    Principal and Partner, Center for Human Capital Innovation

    Allan Schweyer is a Principal and Partner at the Center for Human Capital Innovation (CHCI). Mr. Schweyer directs CHCI’s research, portal and offshore efforts and leads the design of new human capital transformation systems tailored specifically for federal, state, and local government.

    Prior to joining CHCI, Mr. Schweyer was President and ...

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  • Daniel Tangherlini

    Assistant Secretary for Management, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Performance Officer, Department of the Treasury

    Daniel Tangherlini was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 24, 2009 to serve as the Department of the Treasury’s Assistant Secretary for Management, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Performance Officer. In these roles, Mr. Tangherlini serves as the principal policy advisor on ...

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  • Chuck Todd

    Chief White House Correspondent, NBC News and Co-Host of "The Daily Rundown," MSNBC

    Chuck Todd is the Chief White House Correspondent for NBC News, as well as the co-host of "The Daily Rundown" on msnbc. He became NBC News' Political Director in March 2007. He also serves as NBC News' on-air political analyst for "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams ...

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  • Steven Wiley

    President, The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg

    Steve Wiley is one of the nation's most sought after performance coaches and president of The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg. ABC News calls him “"best speaker you’ve never heard of" and USA Today/Gannett says he provides "the most powerful performance training available."

    He is a proven entrepreneur, author, and ...

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