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Nanette Blandin
Nanette M. Blandin is President of The Nexus Institute, a global executive education and leadership development company. The Institute is dedicated to expanding the strategic, long-term capabilities of leaders and organizations facing unparalleled levels of change and complexity. The Institute develops and facilitates customized executive education programs, conducts organizational needs ass...

John Czajkowsi

Robert Durant
Professor Durant’s teaching and research focus on executive branch politics, public management, policy implementation, and environmental policy. He is Associate Editor for Administrative Research for Public Administration Review. He has published extensively in leading refereed journals in public administration, political science, and public policy. His latest book is The Greening of the U.S...

Jack Fyock
Jack Fyock, Ph.D. is a Vice President at Market Strategies, Inc, where he heads the communication division of the Government, Foundation, and Academic Group. He has 16 years of research and communication experience in medical, social service, and public health settings. Dr. Fyock is a nationally recognized expert in Social Marketing and has led the majority of the Centers for Medicare ...

Edward L. Girovasi
Ed Girovasi is a Research Fellow with the Resources and Acquisition Group of LMI Government Consulting, McLean VA. He provides his government clients with technical and analytical expertise in areas of acquisition and grants management. Prior to joining LMI in May 2007, Mr. Girovasi ended his 33-year federal career at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he serve...

Timothy Hannapel
Tim Hannapel is Assistant Counsel in the National Treasury Employees Union’s Office of General Counsel. NTEU is the federal sector’s largest independent union, representing the interests of over 150,000 federal workers nationwide. Mr. Hannapel, who grew up in Washington, D.C. and attended D.C. public schools, received his undergraduate degree in History from Brown University in 1981 ...

Elaine Kaplan
Elaine Kaplan is Senior Deputy General Counsel for the National Treasury Employees Union, the federal sector’s largest independent union representing the interests of over 150,000 employees nationwide. Ms. Kaplan, a native of Brooklyn, NY, received a B.A. in history, with honors, from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1976, and a J.D., cum laude, from the Georgetown Universit...

Nancy Kingsbury
In October 2000, Dr. Kingsbury assumed the newly created position of Managing Director for Applied Research and Methods at the Government Accountability Office (formerly General Accounting Office), where she is responsible for managing GAO’s advanced analytic staff including economists, computer engineers, statisticians, social science analysts, program evaluation experts, and other scientif...

Chris Koepke
Chris Koepke, Ph.D. is a Deputy Group Director for Strategic Research and Campaign Management at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). He is responsible for all Medicare communication campaigns, strategic planning, and marketing research. He has 25 years of research and communication experience in social service, public health settings, public relations, media, and political s...

Robert Kramer
Robert Kramer teaches leadership, action learning and organization development at American University. From 2002-2005, he was director of executive education for the AU School of Public Affairs (SPA). In 2002 he received the Outstanding Teacher Award from SPA. In 2004 he received the Curriculum Innovation Award of the American Society for Public Administration. Bob has served as an elec...

Robert Lapidus
Experience/Background Bob Lapidus has worked as a consultant in organization development and human resource management for the past 25 years. As a senior consultant to key managers and Chief Executive Officers, he has implemented a wide variety of interventions including executive coaching, leader transition, team building, off site retreats, strategic planning, conflict resolution, managin...

Joseph Logan
Joseph Logan is Global Change Programme Manager in the IT Services organization of AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. Prior to joining AstraZeneca he was involved in enterprise-level strategy and performance consulting for over a decade for several large organizations in the public and private sectors. Mr. Logan is a member of the adjunct faculty at American University, and he is a frequent contribut...

Bob Marshak
Robert J. Marshak is currently Senior Scholar in Residence at the School of Public Affairs, American University, Washington, DC. Bob has also led a global consulting practice specializing in organizational change for more than 25 years. Previously he served almost 10 years in senior executive management and policy analysis positions in the US Government. His last government position was Acting Dir...

Howard McCurdy
PhD, Cornell University. Public administration, public finance, American politics, public management, organization theory, and public policy are the teaching and research interests of Professor McCurdy. With fellow faculty member David Rosenbloom, he recently completed a book on the political theory of American public administration. One of the leading experts on space policy, he recen...

Beryl Radin
Beryl A. Radin is a Scholar in Residence in the Department of Public Administration and Policy in American University’s School of Public Affairs. Prior to joining the AU faculty she was a professor at the University of Baltimore, the State University of New York at Albany, and the Washington Public Affairs Center of the University of Southern California. An elected member of t...

Geoffrey Red
Geoffrey Red is an internationally experienced Information Services and Change Management professional with an extensive background in the fields of Information Services Management and Organization Development and Change. Mr. Red has applied information management and organization development practice over the past seventeen years as a manager with large global companies such as Electronic D...

David Rosenbloom
A leading contributor to the field of public administration, Dr. Rosenbloom holds the rank of distinguished professor. His specializations include constitutional and administrative law, public administrative theory, public administrative history, administrative reform, and human resources management. He is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration and the recipient of numerous awar...

Brad Schoener
Bradley Schoener, PhD, of The MITRE Institute is Principal Systems Engineer for the Center for Enterprise Modernization in the MITRE Corporation. Brad has over seventeen years of experience as an internal and external Organization Development consultant to government agencies, science and engineering organizations, medical institutions, and academic institutions....

Carl Shapiro
Carl Shapiro has been an economist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for over 25 years. Currently, Dr. Shapiro is the Science Impact Program Coordinator. The Science Impact Program is a focused effort to increase the use and value of natural science information in public policy and societal decisions. Between 1987 and 2005, Dr. Shapiro was the principal economist in the Office of the Dire...

Elly Snyder
Elly Snyder is a business consultant with experience in the private and public sectors. She has over 25 years experience in education, human resources management, training and facilitation, leadership development, and organizational assessment and reorganization. Her work focuses on helping organizations identify and achieve strategic and operational business goals and she has worked with numero...

Gwen Sykes
Gwendolyn Sykes is currently serving as Yale University's first Chief Financial Officer (CFO). She is the former CFO for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Through her leadership, Ms. Sykes ensured the financial health of the organization, including responsibility for ensuring that NASA resources were effectively employed toward the achievement of NASA's Vision for S...

Patricia Sykes
Ph.D. Yale University. Professor Sykes's teaching and research focus on U.S. government and political development, comparative politics, public policy and administration, democratic theory, and gender studies. She is the author of Presidents and Prime Ministers: Conviction Politics in the Anglo-American Tradition and Losing from the Inside: The Cost of Conflict in the British Social Democratic Par...

Jane Tamagna
Jane Tamagna is a business consultant with 20 years experience in organizational development, business consulting, training, and facilitation. She focuses her work on two outcomes: helping leaders solve chronic performance, quality, and workflow problems and helping leaders define and move in new strategic or operational directions. She works with team, departmental, subsidiary, ...

Robert Tobias
As a Distinguished Adjunct Professor in Residence at American University, Robert Tobias teaches courses in public management, leadership, facilitation and team development, conflict management and alternative dispute resolution, and managing labor management relations. In addition, he is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation which brings together members of Co...

Ruth Zaplin

Donald G Zauderer
Dr. Donald G. Zauderer is Professor Emeritus of Public Administration at American University, where he directed the Key Executive Program for emerging leaders in public service. Upon retiring from American, Dr. Zauderer served as Senior Advisor at The Brookings Institution, where he directed the Mastering the Art of Public Leadership program. Dr. Zauderer is currently Principal of Zauderer & ...