Gov Innovator Podcast
Summary: The Gov Innovator podcast, hosted by Dr. Andy Feldman, features concise ten-minute interviews with insightful public sector innovators and experts. Its goal is to share useful practices and insights with public leaders related to evidence-based policy, data-driven decision making, public sector innovation and the important role of leadership.
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Podcasts:
Thomas Kane of Harvard discusses how state education leaders can leverage ESSA and encourage districts to learn and do what works for students.
Jeffrey Liebman of the Harvard Kennedy School on results-driven contracting strategies that cities can use to increase the effectiveness of procurements.
What lessons does having two Deputy Secretaries provide for other public agencies? To get insights, we speak with Heather Higginbottom, the former Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources in the Obama Administration.
How can Federal agencies successfully streamline their support services, such as HR and IT, to boost efficiency and improve results? We get insights from Jeffrey Neal (@JeffNealHR), a leading expert in human resources issues. He served for 33 years in the Federal government, including as the Chief Human Capital Officer for the 23,000-employee Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) from 2000 to […]
What is the value of evidence and data for elected city leaders as well as how can those leaders create a results-focused culture within city government? We get insights from Michael Nutter who served for eight years at the Mayor of Philadelphia, from 2008 to January 2016. Under his leadership, Philadelphia became known as a leader in […]
Peter Schochet of Mathematica Policy Research gives an overview of RCT-YES, free software that makes it easier to learn what works with rigorous evaluation.
Researchers from MDRC discuss the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project, funded by the Admin. for Children & Families at HHS.
Dennis Culhane discusses how states and localities are linking their data in Integrated Data Systems to spur social innovation and improve service delivery
Maria Cancian, recently a Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, discusses why Federal agencies should shift to a "yes, unless" attitude towards sharing data.
Adam Sacarny of Columbia University on how HHS and the State of Colorado tested low-cost, light touch interventions to learn what works.
Kristen Cox of the Governor's budget office and Jonathan Ball of the Fiscal Analysts Office describe Utah's progress in evidence-based policy.
State Rep. Toby Barker discusses how Mississippi has defined evidence tiers, created program inventories and strengthened evidence-based budgeting in order to improve program effectiveness.
Kevan Collins of the UK's Education Endowment Foundation discusses how EEF works to break the link between family income and educational achievement.
Robert Gordon, the former OMB Acting Deputy Director, discusses ways to promote evidence and innovation in Federal grant programs.
An important and underused opportunity for public agencies to improve their results and tackle critical challenges is researcher-practitioner partnerships. When researchers and government executives team up, public agencies can get credible answers to important operational and strategic questions. That can include insights from empirical analyses as well as from field experiments. To get insights into what it takes to […]
