Brent Stockwell Assistant City Manager Scottsdale, AZ Bio | LinkedIn | Twitter Brent Stockwell, Assistant City Manager of Scottsdale, AZ, joined GovLove to discuss his work on performance measurement, behavioral insights and his favorite color. Brent described how Scottsdale is taking a new approach to simplifying city reports. He also shared his thoughts on … Continued
This guest post by Ed Krafick was reprinted with permission from Soofa. How does government innovate? What are some best practices to engage staff to think differently and challenge the status quo in an actionable way? The Prince George’s County Department of Parks and Recreation, Innovation Taskforce has built and refined a staff-driven formula to … Continued
Innovation, performance and public service in Little Rock. Two people from the City of Little Rock, AR join GovLove to talk about their work. Melissa Bridges, Performance & Innovation Coordinator, and Susan Langley, City Clerk, discuss the Commodores, their career paths and a cross-departmental quality of life group. Topics: Lighting round (2:30), how children impacted … Continued
Sam Edelstein Chief Data Officer City of Syracuse, NY LinkedIn | Twitter Brendan Babb Chief Innovation Officer City of Anchorage, AK LinkedIn | Twitter Open data and innovation from coast to coast. Brendan Babb, the Chief Innovation Officer of Anchorage, Alaska and Sam Edelstein, the Chief Data Officer of Syracuse, New York join GovLove. … Continued
John Keisler Economic Development Director Long Beach, CA LinkedIn | Twitter He started as a management assistant and now he’s the Director of Economic and Property Development for the City of Long Beach, California, get to know John Keisler. John was also the innovation team director in Long Beach. In this episode Kent talks … Continued
Jonathan Veale Innovation Lead City of Calgary, Canada LinkedIn | Twitter GovLove International returns! Jonathan Veale from the City of Calgary, Alberta talked about how he works to inspire innovation and solve civic challenges. This includes a unique idea platform where residents submit ideas to improve their community and others vote to support them. This … Continued
Leigh Tami Chief Performance Officer City of Cincinnati, OH Bio | LinkedIn | Twitter The Chief Performance Officer of the City of Cincinnati, OH, Leigh Tami, joins GovLove to discuss data and performance. She shares her background and path to local government, what she looks for when hiring and the importance of data. Leigh also shares her experience as … Continued
GovLove takes a visit to the Steel City in this week’s episode. We chatted with two people from the Pittsburgh, PA Office of Innovation & Performance about their open data and innovation efforts. Debra Lam, the Chief of Innovation & Performance and Laura Meixell the Analytics & Strategy Manager discussed PGH Lab, the city’s Burgh’s … Continued
Join ELGL organizational member, the Alliance for Innovation, for a new series of programs called Innovation Labs, a unique opportunity to bring together leaders from across the country at all levels of local government looking to share, collaborate, and adapt solutions to civic trust and engagement. What you can expect: Hear from Action-leaders from the private, non-profit and … Continued
Register for the webinar on March 18 #ELGLInnovation Join ELGL for a webinar to discuss local governments experience with mobile apps. A panel of local government all stars will share their experience developing, implementing, and finding the right constituent relationship management (CRM) solution for their communities. We will talk about what drove interest in developing a mobile … Continued
