Partnership Vice President of Leadership Development Andrew Marshall joins co-hosts Loren DeJonge Schulman and Elda Auxiliaire, to discuss the Partnership’s new Public Service Leadership Institute. Marshall discusses the institute’s goals to amplify public service leadership through policy recommendations, research and commentary, to create a shared standard of effective federal leadership around the Partnership’s Public Service Leadership Model, and to provide federal leaders and offices with world-class training programs and custom offerings. To date, Marshall and his team have helped tens and thousands of federal employees working at all levels of our government become more effective leaders.

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Our co-hosts Loren DeJonge Schulman and Rachel Klein-Kircher speak with Carrie Stokes and Sawyer McCarley about how digital mapping tools and technologies shape decisions about providing humanitarian assistance in developing countries, and why mentoring and investing in young people is critical to public service. Stokes is the chief geographer at the U.S. Agency for International Development and the director of the agency’s GeoCenter. She also leads the YouthMappers program, an initiative funded by USAID that cultivates the next generation of geospatial technology experts from around the globe. Sawyer McCarley, a former research fellow with the YouthMappers program, is a recent college graduate now working as a disaster recovery specialist with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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Washington Post journalist Lillian Cunningham joins co-hosts Loren DeJonge Schulman and Rachel Klein-Kircher for a conversation on how to lead in government during normal times and times of crisis, as well as why the study of public service leadership is critical for our nation’s public servants. Cunningham is the creator and host of The Post’s “Presidential,” “Constitutional” and “Moonrise” podcasts. As an editor and reporter of the newspaper’s “On Leadership” section that explores leadership and management challenges in the public and private sectors.

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The first episode of our second season features a panel discussion headlined by several of our 2022 Service to America Medals finalists, a group of exceptional public servants who have dedicated their careers to improving the health, safety, and security of our country. Event speakers shared their insights on why public trust in government matters, what agencies are doing to bridge the trust gap and what leaders can do to motivate a new generation to enter public service. The event—hosted by the Partnership for Public Service as part of Public Service Recognition Week—was moderated by Margaret Talev, managing editor for politics at Axios and CNN political analyst, and included remarks from Partnership President and CEO Max Stier as well as Shalanda Young, the newly appointed permanent director of the Office of Management and Budget.

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