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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…
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….
Making The Complex Clear: A Career Rooted in Communication
Over the past 12 years, my career has really centered around one thing: helping people make sense of complicated information in a way that feels clear, useful, and approachable. Whether working in healthcare or federal consulting, I’ve always gravitated toward roles where communication, strategy, and problem solving intersect. My professional background started in public health…
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…
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 Employees in Real Time: FMP’s Social Media Approach to Recognition
In the first blog of this series, Creating a Culture of Appreciation: Building Programs That Engage and Inspire, Lauren Small explored why recognition is more than a feel-good gesture. She touched on how recognition is a strategic tool for engagement and resilience. Building on that foundation, this blog dives into one of the most dynamic channels for recognition today: social media. Social platforms offer…