RESOURCE LIBRARY INTERVIEWS ARCHIVE
2024.05.20: What's Your Why with Stephanie Creed
1. Lifelong Learning & Dynamic Environments 2. Making a Difference through Responsible Spending and 3. the Opportunity to Mentor and Help Others. - Stephanie Creed, NIGP-CPP, CPPO, CPPB, Senior Procurement Process Consultant.
2024.04.24: Change Agent Chat with Open Gov's Kathrin Frauscher
Dustin Lanier interviews Kathrin Frauscher from the Open Contracting Partnership, a global non-profit focused on improving public procurement through open-data-powered reform efforts.
2024.04.15: What's Your Why with Karen Hatten
Celebrating Procurement Professionals by highlighting Civic Initiatives Karen Hatten as she shares her Procurement 'why'.
2024.04.01: Procurement Month What's Your Why with Mike Thornton
Continuing to celebrate Procurement Professionals and highlighting Civic Initiatives PaaS Practice Lead Mike Thornton as he shares why Procurement is important to him.
2024.03.26: Procurement Month What's Your Why with Nancy Sherriel Rush
In celebration of Procurement Month, Civic Initiatives team member Nancy Sherriel Rush shares why she enjoys working in Procurement.
2024.03.25: Procurement Month What's Your Why with Woody Fluharty
In celebration of Procurement Month, Civic Initiatives Deputy Chief Operating Officer Woody Fluharty shares why Procurement is so important to him.
2024.02.28: Change Agent Chats: Jack Pellegrino, Director of Purchasing & Contracting
Jack Pellegrino, Director of Purchasing and Contracting for the County of San Diego, and Dustin talk about the recent CAPPO conference, his path to San Diego, and his new effort to launch a master's-level supply chain management program.
2023.08.04: Change Agent Chats: Chris Sawchuk, The Hackett Group
Interview with Chris Sawchuk, Global Procurement Advisory Practice Leader for The Hackett Group, about the role of benchmarking in improving procurement operations, and the practical opportunities available to public procurement.
2023.07.07: Change Agent Chats: Leah McGrath, Executive Director, StateRamp
A talk with Leah McGrath about StateRamp's important mission in streamlining IT cloud standards, its impact on public procurement, and a new partnership with Civic Initiatives.
2023.06.22: Change Agent Chats: Rob Handfield and Andrea Stefano Patrucco
Rob and Stefano reviewed the data from the use of the Strategic National Stockpile during COVID in an extensive report. We talk about the paper and some of its recommendations related to #supplychain in the US.
2023.05.23: Procurement Month 2023 - "What's Your Why?" (related podcast)
Throughout Procurement Month, we have been engaged with the theme "What's Your Why." Several of the procurement professionals on my team stepped into the spotlight to share a brief snippet about what motivates them in their work.
2023.05.02: Resourceful Procurement - NAEP Breakout Session with Ed Mills
A discussion with Ed Mills, Chief Procurement Officer for Colorado University, about "Resourceful Procurement: Leveraging Capacity and Creative Resourcing in Higher Education Procurement" and other important procurement topics.
2023.03.30: What's Your Why - Higher Education Public Procurement
We talk to three leaders in Higher Education Procurement about why they entered procurement, why they stay, and how we cultivate that interest in the next generation.
2022.12.14: Interview: Procurement Through the Eyes of City Manager Harry Black
An hour-long chat with Harry Black, the City Manager for the City of Stockton, California. Hear how Black's public sector career spawned from contracting and procurement into the C-suite
2022.11.23: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Procurement All-Stars with TJ Martin (related podcast)
An interactive discussion about "Bringing Up the Next Generation of Procurement All-Stars with TJ Martin.
2022.04.06: Interview: Aubrey Leigh Goodwin 1:1 - State of Mississippi (related podcast)
A great 10-minute discussion with Aubrey Leigh Goodwin, a Deputy Executive Director with the Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration.
2022.03.31: Interview: Chapters as an Enduring Community
A quick talk on Chapters as an Enduring Community.
Thinking about some ways to think about how Chapters can help retain connection, even if individual members may be changing jobs, seeking the best for them in their careers.
2022.03.15: Procurement as a Career: Should Public Procurement be on the List for Graduating Seniors?
Let's pitch to college seniors to get procurement on the list!
Thanks to Carrie Mathes, MPA, NIGP-CPP, CPPO, CFCM, C.P.M., CPPB; Aaron Carter, MBA, CPPO, CPPB; and Jaime Schorr for adding their takes on this topic as people who know the NIGP/NASPO/NAEP worldviews.
2022.02.16: Five Watchwords for Public Procurement in 2022 (related podcast)
Great thought leadership from Jaime Schorr, Justin Sullivan, Christin Webb, NIGP-CPP, CPPB, James E. Crenshaw, MBA, NIGP-CPP, CPPO, Jenny Hedderman, Esq., Christina Semeraro, MPA, CPPO, CPPB, NIGP-CPP, and special guest Gary Lambert.
2021.10.08: Supply Chain and Stockpile Management
Thanks to NASCA.org for hosting a great discussion with Curt Topper, Jaime Schorr, and Dustin Lanier, CPPO, facilitated by Pam Goins.
The full video session is available in the NASCA library.
2021.09.16: Interview: Ed Mills, Transformation in Flight
Ed Mills led off with perspectives on how he made choices about why to transform, where to transform, and with what resources. Civic Initiatives, LLC was part of the resource mix in several of those projects, so I spoke about some of our role as an aligned partner.
Ed also weaves in references to the Avengers and Deadpool, so he understood the entertainment assignment. Take a listen and share your thoughts if you do!
2021.08.03: Hot Jobs in Public Procurement
A discussion on "Hot Jobs" in Public Procurement
Our panel included Jaime Schorr, Justin Sullivan, James E. Crenshaw, MBA, NIGP-CPP, CPPO, Jenny Hedderman, Esq., Yen Pang, Jonathan Walker, Christina Semeraro, MPA, NIGP-CPP, CPPO, CPPB, and Alli McNally.
2021.06.17: Resilient Supply Chains
Supply Chain resiliency has come back into the news with the ransomware scares, and we had another excellent discussion.
Participants: Jaime Schorr, Jenny Hedderman, Esq. James E. Crenshaw, MBA, NIGP-CPP, CPPO, Jonathan Walker, and Christina Semeraro, MPA, NIGP-CPP, CPPO, CPPB all chimed in with great points that are worth your ear.
2021.06.03: Work from Anywhere
Our Work from Anywhere discussion (now a podcast) was a great hit!
Thanks, Fred Brittain and Tanya H., for bringing the CIO perspective to our panel discussion with Jaime Schorr, Jenny Hedderman, Esq., Christin Webb, MBA, NIGP-CPP, CPPB, and James E. Crenshaw, MBA, NIGP-CPP, CPPO.
2021.05.21: Interview: Sarah O'Brien, CEO Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council
Thanks to Sarah O'Brien for a great discussion. Choose your mode to learn about the great and interesting work of the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council.
2021.04.14: Interview: Rob Handfield on Supply Chain
A live hour-long talk with Rob Handfield. Rob was on panels for both the National Association of State Procurement Officials and the Public Spend Forum this week (busy guy!), so if you liked his content, we go in depth on the recent #NASPO #Covid19 report, PPE, Vaccines, global #supplychain, circular planning, and more.
2021.03.17: Interview: Nicholas Tincher (University of Wisconsin)
Nicholas Tincher talks about keeping Business Value at the center of Procurement Automation in the National Association of Educational Procurement Centennial Week!
2020.10.08: CIO Innovation in the New Normal Panel
Panel of Ying Chan, Tanya Hannah, Sam Segran, & Jim Weaver.
2020.08.25: Interview: Biko Taylor (KIPP, TX)
2020.08.24: Designing the New Normal Panel
At the 2020 NIGP Forum with Carol Wilson, Abdoul Kabaou, and Gisella Higgins.
2020.08.05: Interview: Aaron Carter (U of Illinois)
A lively interview with Aaron Carter, where he talked about a variety of current topics, including the focus of University presidents and the role of procurement.
2020: Higher Education Panel
Panel of Ed Mills, Calvin Lyons, & Jenny Doherty.
2020: Interview: Carol Wilson (Connecticut)
Our interview with Carol Wilson, C.P.M., garnered comments from five state CPOs - a great video to watch about #publicsector CPOs on the front lines. She describes how, when Connecticut was deprioritized, they began vetting new suppliers in earnest, almost 5000 new leads and suppliers.
2020: Interview: Jaime Schorr (Maine)
Jaime Schorr, State of Maine CPO, took time to help continue our series on Public CPOs managing in the new normal.
2020: Interview: Jenn Meyers (City of Tucson)
Jenn Myers, NIGP-CPP, CPPB, is one of the best of the best, and we had a great discussion about how to think about young people and their future in public procurement.
2020: Interview: Jim Colangelo (Michigan)
Jim Colangelo covers public procurement topics, including KPIs, organizational design, procurement agility, and new innovations