ELGL is excited to participate in the first-ever GovComms Festival, part of OECD’s Government After Shock global dialogue. Register for this free event, and learn more about ELGL members who are speaking at this event!
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Amanda Nagl
Current Job Title: Founder and Principal
Current Organization: Unlocking Government
True or false: communications is one of the most essential parts of my local government job. How? Why?
- Communications is the foundation for everything else, so yes. Great community engagement starts, but does not stop, with great communications!
GovComms is taking place worldwide. Where’s the best place in the world you’ve ever vacationed to?
- Costa Rica
Chocolate or wine: if you had to give up one and keep the other, what would you choose?
- Bye-bye, chocolate
What’s the most underrated but essential skill that you use everyday in a local government job?
- Active listening and then making connections based on what you hear…all day long.
Who is your celebrity enemy (the celebrity that annoys you the most)?
- Jojo Siwa. She really is my 11 year old daughter’s enemy but I have to hear about her so much that it annoys me.
What didn’t we ask you, but should have? What’s the answer?
- I imagine a 2021 where we are all committed to finding out how we are similar instead of highlighting how we are different. Values, hopes, dreams, and fears–there is a lot of possibility when we realize how similar those really are–they are what motivate every single one of us.