BOB LAVIGNAAWARD-WINNING PUBLIC SECTOR LEADER, AUTHOR AND SPEAKER

Bob Lavigna is an award-winning public sector leader and innova-tor with more than 30 years of experience leading public sector HR organizations and programs. Bob’s book, Engaging Govern-ment Employees: Motivate and Inspire Your People to Achieve Superior Performance, was published by the American Manage-ment Association and is now in its second printing.

He is currently the Director of the Institute for Public Sector Em-ployee EngagementTM, a division of CPS HR Consulting, an inde-pendent government agency. The Institute is dedicated to helping public sector and nonprofit organizations measure and improve employee engagement,

In July 2016, he retired from the position of Assistant Vice Chan-cellor and Director of HR for the University of Wisconsin, a univer-sity ranked among the world’s top 25 research institutions.

Bob’s previous positions include Vice President-Research for the Partnership for Public Service, Senior Manager for CPS HR Con-sulting and Director of the State of Wisconsin civil service system. He began his career with the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

The organizations Bob has led have received innovation awards from the Ford Foundation, International Public Management As-sociation for HR (IPMA-HR), Society for Human Resource Manage-ment and others. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and was selected as a “Public Official of the Year” by Governing magazine.

Bob is a past national president of IPMA-HR and past national chair of the American Society for Public Administration Section on Personnel and Labor Relations.

Bob has a B.A. in Public Affairs from George Washington Universi-ty, and an M.S. in HR from Cornell University.

BOB LAVIGNADIRECTOR, INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT™

INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

CPS HR Consulting 241 Lathrop Way

Sacramento, CA 95815

CONTACT INFO

rlavigna@cpshr.us

linkedin.com/in/robert-lavigna-22344a3

608.395.8472

Nevada County, CA Managers Meeting, Employee Engagement Aug. 24, 2016 ∙ Nevada City, NV

IPMA-HR International Conference ∙ Session: Leveraging the Power of Employee Engagement Sept. 18, 2016 ∙ Kansas City, MO

Washington State PELRA Annual Conference, Employee Engagement Keynote and Breakout Workshop Sept. 22, 2016 ∙ Chelan, WA

Wisconsin Lean Government Session Oct. 14, 2016 · Madison, WI

Governing Magazine Pennsylvania Leadership Forum, Panel Oct. 20, 2016 ∙ Harrisburg, PA

Oregon PELRA Conference: Keynote and Breakout Workshop Nov. 4, 2016 · Gleneden Beach, OR

University of Wisconsin HR Professionals Conference Dec. 5, 2016 · Madison, WI

Governing Magazine Virginia Leadership Forum, Keynote Dec. 9, 2016 · Richmond, VA

MMANC Workshop, Employee Engagement Dec. 12, 2016

Space Coast Public Personnel and Risk Management Association, Keynote: Employee Engagement Jan. 27, 2017

WR IPMA HR Annual Conference, Session: Building a Culture of Employee Engagement April 27, 2017

FEATURED SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

BOOK & SUMMARY5-STAR REVIEW ON AMAZON!

ENGAGING GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES: MOTIVATE AND INSPIRE YOUR PEOPLE TO ACHIEVE SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE (American Management Association)

Engaged employees are high-performing employees, and the public sector today can’t afford anything less. Govern-ment employees face enormous challenges, including being stigmatized as underworked and overpaid. At the same time government is being castigated and hamstrung by budget cuts, the public continues to ask government to solve some of our nation’s toughest and most intractable problems: maintaining the quality of life in our communities, eliminating poverty, expanding opportunity by improving the education system, providing affordable health care, putting people to work, supporting a war that has stubbornly persisted for a decade, protecting the public, and so on.

In Engaging Government Employees, Bob Lavigna gives public and nonprofit sector leaders the tools they need to leverage the talents of government’s most important re-source: its people. He shows them how to measure, nurture and sustain the kind of authentic employee engagement that drives results. With more than three decades of experience in public sector HR, he knows how to get team members passionate about the agency’s mission and committed to its success. Readers will learn:

• The business case for engagement -- how improved engagement translates into improved organizational performance, particularly in government • How to get employees to deliver “discretionary effort” • How to measure the level of engagement – and act on the results • Why free pizza and Coke every Friday is not a viable engagement strategy • And more

Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence, Engaging Government Employees rejects the typical, one-size-fits-all approach to motivation and shows how the public sector – America’s largest employer – can apply the science of engagement to improve performance dramatically.

FEATURED PUBLICATIONS

THE SCIENCE OF ENGAGEMENTThe Public Manager, December 9, 2016

EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION – A KEY TO EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENTPA Times, December 2, 2016

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT: IT’S ABOUT LEADERSHIPPA Times, November 4, 2016

OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO IMPROVING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT (PT. 2)PA Times, October 7, 2016

OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO IMPROVING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT (PT. 1)PA Times, September 2, 2016

WHY IS EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT SO LOW?PA Times, August 3, 2016

IMPROVING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT - WHO’S RESPONSIBLE?PA Times, July 1, 2016

IMPROVING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT: A PUBLIC SECTOR LEADERSHIP IMPERATIVEReprinted from Public Sector Digest, Summer 2015

HONORS & AWARDS

Governing magazine “Public Official of the Year”

Elected Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration

“Stockberger Achievement Award” for lifetime

contributions to public sector HR from IPMA-HR

American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Section

on Personnel national award for outstanding service to

public sector HR

“Rooney Leadership Award” from National Association of

State Personnel Executives

“Administrator of the Year” from ASPA Wisconsin Capital

Chapter

“Toll Fellowship” from Council of State Governments

“Karl K. Wettengel Award” for outstanding contributions to

public personnel management from IPMA-HR

“Master’s Thesis Award” from Society for Human Resource

Management

“Comptroller General Equal Employment Opportunity

Award” from GAO

Ford Foundation “Innovations in American Government

Award” national finalist (first HR program ever selected as

a finalist)

“Agency Excellence Award,” IPMA-HR

“Rooney Innovation Award,” National Association of State

Personnel Executives

“Exemplary State and Local Government Award,” National

Center for Public Productivity

“Best Practice Leadership Award,” Saratoga Institute

Council of State Governments “Innovations Award”

Regional Finalist

“Minority Employer of the Year,” Milwaukee Urban League

(twice)

“Best Practices Award,” Society for Human Resource

Management Wisconsin Chapter

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