Episode 167: Improving Performance with Dana Fowler

Jul 20

This week on the GovNavigators Show, Robert and Adam welcome Dana Fowler, member of the GovNavigators Network, to walk us through her career path and offer insights on government performance reform. Dana details her interesting start in the federal government as “basically a deckhand on a fishing boat,” before moving onto the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the CDC, the Performance Improvement Council within GSA, and the Department of the Interior, in a performance management field she never expected to be a part of. The show raises the importance of leveraging data for decision-making, measuring the right things for the right reasons, and the value of an outside perspective. Plus, Dana gives us a peek into her new projects that work on government reform from the outside, using the knowledge she’s collected as a “practitioner” within.

Show Notes:

House Budget Committee: Press Release on Reconciliation 3.0

The Hill: Key House committee advances framework for reconciliation 3.0

Congress.gov: Budget Impoundment and Control Act of 1974

The Washington Post: Wildfire smoke in DC

FedRAMP: FedRAMP 20x

DOW: Department of War Suspends CMMC Phase II Requirements

Federal News Network: Pentagon suspends CMMC phase two requirements

NOTUS: The Social Security Chief Keeps Sending Staff His Daughter’s Pretzels

Performance.gov: GPRA

IBM: IBM Center for the Business of Government

We the Doers: We the Doers website