You’re a first-term appointee in state government. You’re serving a Governor you believe in. You’ve been highly successful in a number of other positions or in your career. You’ve managed projects, led people and coalitions — and you’ve been passionate about your vision and doing what you love.
And now, you’re discovering or have discovered that this government world is totally different than anything you’ve met before!
Agendas — conflicting or hidden. Politics – overt and covert. New friends or convenient allies. Career civil servants – some engaged, some not.
Whether you’re serving a Democrat or Republican Administration, it doesn’t matter. The challenges you face as an appointee are non-partisan.
That’s why I’m here. My intention is to serve YOU during your time as a public servant – to provoke you to keep your vision alive, your spirit on fire and your soul intact no matter what during this time.
A little about me — I jumped from the private to the public sector in 1994 to serve former NJ Governor Whitman in the Department of Commerce. At first, I was Director of the Division of Small, Women and Minority Businesses – and excited to make it easier for small business to do business with government! I’d been a lobbyist for years, and before my transition, executive director of the National Federation of Independent Business. After years of issues management, I was ready to see how life worked on the inside of government!
Marching to the tune of “creating smaller, smarter government” I retooled a process to eliminate built-in, historical overtime that staff had come to rely on over the years. That was in the Department of Commerce – where our goal was to make it easier for business to do business with state government. Awesome learning opportunity. Later I moved to an “in-but-not-of” agency called NJN, the State’s Public Television system, as assistant executive director. Here, I had a blast working with career civil servants, engaged employees and just about every state agency to deliver large-scale education and training initiatives as well as legislative/policy issues.
What was the common thread among these experiences? My personal investment in training and development, also called leadership coaching.
So, today, I work with visionaries passionate about making a difference and I’m in service to you and what you’re up to in the world to make sure you keep your foot on the pedal of your possibility!