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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 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…
Navigating Change: A Practical Guide
If one thing is certain, it’s that we all experience change at some point in our careers. Whether driven by new technology, organizational restructuring, or external factors, change can have a significant impact on how we perceive our organizations, our roles, and even ourselves. Successfully adapting to change requires a flexible, thoughtful approach that balances…
A Career Built on People: Human Capital Consulting at FMP
Human resources is one of those fields that means something different depending on who you ask. For some, it brings to mind onboarding paperwork and benefits enrollment. For others, it is strategy, organizational design, or workforce planning. For me, HR has always been about one thing: helping people and organizations get the best out of…
AI Has Entered the I‑O Mainstream—Now Comes the Hard Part
This year’s Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) conference made one thing unmistakably clear: artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a fringe experiment in the field. In less than two years, AI has moved from an experiment to commonplace across nearly every I‑O discipline. The train has left the station and yet many organizations…
Thriving Through Technology Transitions (It’s Not Just About the Tech)
If it feels like technology changes never slow down, you’re not imagining it. New systems. New tools. New platforms. Each one promises to make work easier, faster, or more efficient. And yet many organizations walk away wondering why things don’t feel better after go-live. In our experience working with clients on organizational transformation, technology implementation,…
Why AI Adoption Is Really About People, Not Tech
AI is everywhere, yet many organizations still struggle to motivate people to actually use it. The problem isn’t the technology, it’s human behavior. Understanding these human barriers is the difference between AI pilots that stall and adoption that can truly scale. A recent Harvard Business Review article, Why People Resist Embracing AI, makes the case…
Celebrating 35 Years of FMP With Sherean Miller, Erin Pitera, and Jessica Milloy
For FMP’s 35th anniversary, we hear from the leaders who have shaped our firm’s identity, strengthened our culture, and guided us through decades of change. In this first installment, we bring together reflections from Managing Partner and Owner Sherean Miller, CEO Erin Pitera, and COO Jessica Milloy, three leaders whose tenure, experience, and vision span…