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Employee Spotlight: Celebrating Mary’s 30-Year Milestone at FMP
This summer, we’re proud to celebrate an incredible milestone: Mary Kilcarr’s 30th anniversary with FMP! Over three decades, Mary has helped shape the firm’s growth while building a meaningful and impactful career of her own, enjoying the twists and turns of FMP’s roadmap along the way! She reflected on her past 30 years with FMP…
Rethinking How We Design Adult Learning: Cheese Sauce or Simple Sauté
Encouraging adults to complete training can sometimes feel like persuading kids to eat their vegetables. The solution is to stop designing adult learning as if we are serving something learners must be tricked into consuming. Imagine two plates of vegetables in front of you. One is covered in a thick, bright yellow sauce that smells…
Behind the Screens: Meet FMP’s 508 Accessibility Team
Today, we’re highlighting one of FMP’s important and often unsung capability areas: Accessibility and Section 508 Compliance. We sat down with four subject matter experts at FMP: Amanda Palla, Emma Wright, Kayla Reid, and Julie Jasewicz. Keep reading to learn more about how they got started in this field, the role of AI in their…
2026 Mid-Year Blog Recap
The year’s half over! Or is it half started? Either way you look at it, we’ve arrived at July 2026. Let’s take a moment to recap our blogs from the first half of 2026. Our blogs, which are 100% employee-led, reflect the technical knowledge, professional interests, and various perspectives of our workforce. Here are some…
Beyond FEVS: Transforming Employee Feedback into Workforce Intelligence
For more than two decades, the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) served as the federal government’s primary tool for measuring employee engagement and workplace perceptions. Now, as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) shifts responsibility for annual employee surveys to individual agencies, federal leaders face both a new challenge and a significant opportunity. Under OPM’s…
Our world runs on data – I’ll make you a chart about it.
Ever since my first programming class in high school, I’ve known that computer systems and data would play a central role in my career. I graduated from George Mason University with a degree in Computational Data Sciences and have spent the past five years in government consulting, including the last three at FMP. Early in college, I realized I didn’t want to…
When AI Ambition Meets Federal Reality (Part 3): Beyond the Rollout: Building Organizations That Can Sustain Constant Change
Over the course of this series, we’ve explored key components of successful change management, including preparing and successfully executing new initiatives (e.g., AI implementation). Yet many organizations today are facing a new challenge — not simply implementing a single change initiative but operating in a state of near-constant change. From AI integration and new technologies…
When AI Ambition Meets Federal Reality (Part 2): Operationalizing Responsible AI Through Enterprise Change Management
In Part 1 of this series, we argued that AI implementation is first and foremost an organizational change challenge. In this blog, we shift from that big picture to a more practical change management question: what does it take to make AI stick in day-to-day work? Across the Federal government, interest in AI is high….
When AI Ambition Meets Federal Reality
Across the federal government, the AI conversation has shifted. The question is no longer whether AI has potential; it’s how agencies can use it responsibly to support their missions while operating within real constraints and maintaining trust with employees, stakeholders, and the public. Many leaders find themselves at this moment. They see opportunities to reduce…