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Jerome F. Climer
Jerome F. Climer is president of the Public Governance Institute, Inc. He has a
lifetime's experience in public administration, public policy
and issue development. With 20 years experience in various staff
roles within the U.S. House of Representatives, Climer was the
catalyst for the creation of the Congressional Institute in
1987 and the Public Governance Institute in 2001.
Climer is sought as a policy and information expert by governmental,
news and private-sector organizations. He frequently briefs
international legislators and public-policy researchers on public-policy
options, consensus building, leadership of complex public-policy
change and the operations of legislative and executive governing
bodies.
Jerry earned his Bachelor of Science in Public Administration
from the University of Arkansas and was working on an advanced
degree when he came to Washington in 1967. In the early 1970s,
he served as Assistant to the Secretary of the U.S. Department
of Agriculture. From 1978 to 1984, he was Chief of Staff to
Congressman Ed Bethune of Arkansas. Between 1985 and 1990, he
served as a member of the U.S. House Republican Leadership staff.
Since the late ‘70s, he has been studying the process
of managing organizational change with Daryl Conner, the author
of Managing at the Speed of Change, and founder and
CEO of Conner Partners. With Conner he is co-authoring the soon
to be published "Leading Public-Sector Change".
In December, Public Governance Institute founder Jerry Climer
was named by the Majority Leader of the US Senate to a 21-member
federal government panel, “Helping Enhance the Livelihood
of People” (HELP). The Commission will focus on developing
strategies to maximize the efficiency of the United States’
allocated foreign aid.
Jerry and his wife, Mary Ann, live in Edenton, North Carolina.
Their daughter Greta, son-in-law Kevin, and granddaughters Lucy
and Violet live in Seattle and their son Matthew lives in Woodbridge,
VA, with his boxers Jake and Elwood.
External Associates
Donald J. Morrissey
Don Morrissey is a legislative strategist and consultant with
expertise in financial services. He has a 25-year experience
in government affairs, both as a legislative staff member and
as a legislative strategist for the mutual fund industry through
its trade association, the Investment Company Institute. Initially
he served as Legislative Representative and latter as Vice-President
for Legislative Affairs.
Don spent 15 years on Capitol Hill where he helped fund and
organize anti-communist counterinsurgency activities in several
countries, including Afghanistan. From 1989 to 1995 he served
as Legislative Director for House Republican Task Force on Terrorism
and Unconventional Warfare. Morrissey has worked on large “change
projects” involving noteworthy institutions such as the
U.S. Congress and Department of Defense, to change how they
perceive and approach public policy issues.
Don earned his Bachelors in Economics in 1979 from Cornell
University.
Michele Stork
Michele Stork is a Decision Support System consultant specializing
in K-12 change-management and social-service IT implementation.
During 1990-96 she worked on State Medicaid Management-Information
Systems (MMIS) implementations for EDS Corp. Then, for 3 1/2
years with KPMG and afterward independently, she served as consultant
for education and social policy systems covering procurement,
design, development, and quality assurance of information processing.
She is therefore familiar with the places where “the grand
plan” has to be turned into comfort zones and weekly results
by educators and other staff.
In 2000, Stork authored The Educator’s Guide to Decision-Support
Systems for Improving Student Learning, published on-line
by CELT Corporation of Marlborough MA. During 2001-04, she led
the design and implementation of a decision support system for
the Detroit Public Schools. This is an enterprise-wide “data
warehouse” that includes student, assessment, human-resource
and financial data. During federal fiscal year 2005, she assisted
with the requirements for “migration” of data from
the state Education agencies into the federal Department of
Education’s data warehouse (a process which is vital to
writing the “Biennial Report to Congress” analyzing
the distribution of federal K-12 funds).
Ms. Stork earned a Bachelor’s of Business Administration
in finance from Iowa State University. She is currently leading
the development of a student tracking system for an after-school
program in DC, to be used for program evaluation with measures
for both effectiveness and accountability.
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