Events are produced at cost (i.e., usually free!) so that they’re affordable for participants at every stage of life and work. We do not subscribe to the notion that ‘you get what you pay for.’ Rather, we like-minded colleagues see immediate and continuing value in showing up with everything we’ve got whenever events attract us. — Kitty Wooley
10/27/20 “Tell Stories with Empathy”: Kurtis Lee, L.A. Times (video conversation)
09/29/20 Leadership in Turbulent Environments: Building Communities for Inclusivity and Trust with David Bray and Rachel Happe (video conversation)
09/02/20 Lead from the heart and your people will follow: Mark C. Crowley (video conversation)
07/29/20 Wine and Cheese with Academic-Practitioner Dialogue (video conversation)
06/30/20 Belva Martin: Resilience For A VUCA World (video conversation)
06/10/20 Geoff Abbott: Unauthorized Progress – Leading ‘from the Middle’ (video conversation)
04/30/20 Public Service-Related Side Projects: Connie Berhane interviews Cheryl Abram, Chris Harrington, Barbara Maroney, and John Sporing (video conversation)
03/25/20 Project Management Perspectives on the PMIAA: Lisa Hammer & Dave Newman, Leadership Techniques LLC (video conversation)
03/03/20 Session #3 with Adrian Wolfberg: Boundary Crossing for Leaders (video conversation)
01/07/20 Leadership coach John Riordan acquaints us with Gretchen Rubin’s “The Four Tendencies” (video conversation)
12/03/19 Recap of session #2 with Adrian Wolfberg: Boundary Crossing for Leaders (video conversation)
10/24/19 Eric McNulty, National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, Harvard University (video conversation) Recap and Recording
08/30/19 Give-and-Take with Adrian Wolfberg: Boundary Crossing for Leaders (video conversation)
07/15/19 Academic-Practitioner Dialogue: Amanda M. Olejarski interviews Amina Gilyard James about her dissertation, Voices Rising: A Narrative Inquiry into Black Women U.S. Government Senior Service Members’ Professional Identity Construction at the Intersection of Race and Gender (video conversation)
06/06/19 Bill Valdez on the Reinvention of the Senior Executives Association (video conversation)
03/12/19 SFF planning dinner at Athena Pallas (VA)
04/27/18 Conversation between Kevin Kasnick, VA Northern California Health Care System, and participants based in CA, CO, DC Metro Area, PA, TX, RI, and Brighton, UK (video conversation)
10/17/17 SFF dinner conversation at Winslow/Blumenthal residence (MD)
06/28/17 Brian Elms explains how Denver Peak Academy saved the city $20M in 5 years (DC)
03/18/17 Video conversation: Dr. Elena Rapisardi on how scripts help in making videos
(Santa Luce, Italy | N. Virginia | Los Angeles | Colorado Springs)
01/28/17 Boiling Frog conversation about boundary spanning in Reston (VA)
09/15/16 Sparking Gov Innovation and Improvement: Lab@OPM hosted by Lora Allen (DC)
04/08/16 Breakfast: Asking for Forgiveness, not Permission hosted by John Sporing (DC)
02/09/16 Using the Dinner Salon Format to Advance Talent Development Objectives (CO)
11/09/15 Nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Center leaders – CoP kickoff (CO)
09/16/15 Carol Willett: The Art of Reinvention(DC)
09/09/14 Breakfast with John Sporing, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
08/12/13 Aloha Celebration and and Building the Enterprise Discussion
03/11/13 Al Malinchak and Maria Chaloux, Public to Private/Career Transition Lab
12/03/12 Gail Williams, Leadership Innovator at NASA Goddard
09/18/12 Rachel Happe and Ayelet Baron, The Business of Community
06/18/12 Doug Krug, e.l.solutions – The Missing Piece in Leadership
05/21/12 Doug Krug (postponed/replaced by “un-dinner”)
04/20/12 Duva/Diva and Leadership Conversation at Charles Krause Reporting Fine Art Gallery
02/07/12 City Hall Fellows with Bethany Rubin Henderson (rescheduled)
12/12/11 City Hall Fellows with Bethany Rubin Henderson (postponed/replaced by “un-dinner”)
11/14/11 Getting Things Done in Government: Winona Varnon
08/30/11 Finding the Motivation: Kelly and Bill Matthews, Body Shop Fitness by Design
08/10/11 Breakfast with Anne Kelly, Organizational Consultant and Executive coach
05/02/11 Skype Conversation with Don Jacobson, U.S. Embassy New Delhi
03/21/11 Joe and Judy Pauley with Major General (Ret.) Gale S. Pollock
01/24/11 Holly Anderson: Deliberately Happy
11/08/10 Early Career Highlights, Judge Richard Slippen, Department of Education
06/22/10 Susan Parker, Office of Disability Employment Policy, Department of Labor
04/06/10 Jeff Pon and John Salamone
01/16/10 Transatlantic Webconference with Elena Rapisardi: Civil Protection 2.0
12/07/09 Dinner with Kathryn Parker, National Park Service
09/21/09 Norman B. Cummings, Political Strategist
07/27/09 Dave Lengyel, NASA and Phil Mongan, ARES Corporation: Process 2.0
04/14/09 Michael Lee Stallard, Fired Up or Burned out
01/27/09 Free Play, including readings by Su Jewell, Fish and Wildlife Service
12/08/08 Training Games: Anne Laurent interviews Ralph Chatham
09/20/08 Richard Phillips: Seeing Systems – Saturday overflow session
09/09/08 Richard Phillips: Seeing Systems
07/29/08 Executive Branch Focus Group – MAX Federal Community
06/24/08 Grace Cummings, Working With Congress, and Richard McCaffery
04/08/08 Georgie Bishop, Public Sector Consortium
01/29/08 Jim Trinka, FAA, and Les Wallace book signing party
12/10/07 Senior Fellows and Friends R and R / wrap shoebox gifts for S.O.M.E.
10/30/07 Gary Klingler, Cleveland Federal Executive Board during 9/11
09/11/07 Carol Willett, Chief Learning Officer, GAO
07/24/07 Andy Schoenbach, OMB, and Sandi McCabe, Education: BFELoB Update
06/04/07 Hannah Sistare, National Academy of Public Administration
05/14/07 David Pachter, Library of Congress
03/26/07 Jon Desenberg, Performance Institute
02/26/07 Midcareer Feds Dialogue
01/17/07 Lee Lambert, Lambert Consulting Group, Dublin, OH
11/13/06 Shelley Metzenbaum, U-MD, on Performance Accountability
10/27/06 Breakfast: Patterson Clark-Washington Post, with Brenna Maloney
09/26/06 Breakfast: Joe and Judy Pauley on Process Communication
09/18/06 The “un-Thompson Dinner” (which happened anyway, despite our speaker’s emergency cancellation)
08/22/06 Breakfast: Just Us
05/23/06 Brian Friel, Government Executive
03/14/06 Chris Mihm, Government Accountability Office
10/24/05 Kirke Harper, USDA Graduate School
07/21/05 Jim Trinka, FBI
05/17/05 Jim Laychak, Pentagon Memorial Fund and Accenture
02/23/05 Roz Kleeman, Coalition for Effective Change
06/29/04 Dave McClure and Roz Docktor, Council for Excellence in Government
03/10/04 Mike Frenz, Ginnie Mae
01/16/04 HUD and ED Senior Fellows at Vie de France
11/20/03 Monika Harrison SBA CHCO
07/29/03 Jim Trinka, IRS
