Networking & Coffee with Exhibitors         

Remarks from OPM

• Honorable Kiran Ahuja, Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management

Networking & Coffee Break with Exhibitors

From Informing to Influencing: Planning & Implementing Programmatic Return to Mission
Kendall Lott, President & CEO, M Powered Strategies

Join this interactive discussion as we address the following:

• Steps that link program design and implementation to return to mission.
• Return to mission products that show the change needed and the evidence that it is working.
• Importance of return to mission in influencing leadership support for your program.

Panel Discussion: Strategies for Becoming an SES

Are you interested in exploring the Senior Executive Service? Join this panel discussion as we explore how to be professionally ready for the SES, tips for successfully competing for the SES, and strategies for being a successful SES.

• (Moderator) Dr. Henry McKoy, Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Science & Innovation, Department of Energy
• Allison Allen, Director, Analyze, Forecast & Support Office, NOAA National Weather Service
• DeShawn Shepard, Deputy Director, Office of the Secretary, Department of Transportation
• Hamaad Syed, Chief Digital Officer, OCSPP, Environmental Protection Agency

Don't Hold People Accountable, Develop Accountable People
Dan Moss, Senior Facilitator, The Arbinger Institute

When it comes to performance management, 95% of employees are dissatisfied with their company’s performance evaluation process, and 90% believe that it doesn’t provide accurate information. With the overwhelming majority being so dissatisfied, it’s easy to see why accountability is an issue in today’s workforce.  It’s not just employees that are dissatisfied with performance management.  Research shows that executives' single most challenging responsibility is holding  people accountable. In this presentation, participants will learn an accountability  model that employees and managers can utilize.

• Understand the major problem underlying leadership attempts to hold people accountable.
• Become equipped with a simple and powerful self-accountability model that can be applied immediately.
• Explore effective practices that enable leaders to finally develop the self-accountable employees their organization needs.
• Set the groundwork for further organizational change. 

Panel Discussion: Developing Employee Relations Groups to Promote Leadership Opportunities

Engaging internally to strengthen one's internal is absolutely critical.  This panel discussion will focus on utilizing informal networks for communications and connections to communities including higher education.  Specifically the panel will explore how best to mobilize and leverage Employee Relations Groups to support your agency's mission and serve as recruiter champions. 

• Thomas Flagg, Director of Business Application Services, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Department of Labor
• Courtney Stewart, Budget Analyst, Division of Financial Management, Wage & Hour Division, Department of Labor
• Maisha Meminger, Manpower Analyst, Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor
• Walt Weatherington, Program Manager, Emergency Preparedness, Employment and Training Administration Department of Labor

Wrap Up

• Members, Federal Executive Institute Alumni Association Board of Directors