Dana Fowler
Dana L.R. Fowler is a federal government organizational performance expert. During her 24 year career in federal government she served as Chief Performance Officer at two Health and Human Services bureaus, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2011-2015) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2005-2011), as well as the Performance Lead at the Department of the Interior (2023-2025), and as the Deputy of the Performance Improvement Council (2015-2017), a cross-federal coordinating entity. In these roles, she worked with performance staff and leaders at all levels as well as working directly with program leaders to explore their program model, develop goals, and articulate outcomes to manage better and tell their story.
Ms. Fowler, in her longstanding role as Director of Federal Executive Councils Support at GSA (2018-2023), worked with political appointees and career leadership in critical management areas – financial management, performance, personnel, information technology, privacy, evaluation and data. After 8 years in the Center-of-Government, including a year leading a Presidential Commission, she worked with Agency leads across the federal ecosystem and saw common challenges across federal agencies. From her unique perspective, she focuses on government operations, in particular the integration of management functions, the sharing of knowledge within and across the federal enterprise, as well as public transparency.