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Apr 11, 2020

How can feds talk to our teams without sounding like hypocrites during a time of crisis? We care about our people ... but we need the work to get done, too. Mission essential work doesn't stop just because we have personal struggles. No one is really talking about how we're talking about this. Dr. Amy Grubb is the right person to advise us.

In this episode, she mentions two websites: 

https://www.siop.org/

https://www.shrm.org/

You can find her on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/amydgrubb/

Her full bio is here:

Amy Grubb, Ph.D. is an internationally acclaimed speaker who has presented numerous Keynote addresses and workshops on leadership, change, working with others, engagement, organizational culture, and storytelling.  She has been responsible for the implementation of numerous change initiatives within the FBI for over 20 years, from serving as a leader on the post-9/11 enterprise-wide transformation of the FBI to a balanced national security and law enforcement mission to implementing innovative HR systems and processes at all levels. She advises C-suite and executive leaders on risk from the human capital perspective regarding organizational performance, policy decisions, and change initiatives, and serves as executive coach to a number of leaders. She works extensively with nearly all populations within the FBI, from Special Agents to pilots to Hostage Rescue Team members to Intelligence Analysts to mid-level and executive populations within both the Special Agent and Professional Staff ranks.    She has presented numerous papers at professional conferences, has served on advisory boards both internal and external to the FBI, and liaisons extensively within the government and the private sector communities.   A 2010 FBI Director’s Award for Excellence recipient for creating the organizational development function at the FBI, she instituted the first corporate-wide FBI Annual Employee Survey and has extensively integrated it with organizational processes and operational programs.  Dr. Grubb also received the 2012 FBI Director’s Award for Excellence for development and implementation of an integrated Leadership Development Program for all employees at all stages of the employment lifecycle and was a recipient of the 2014 SIOP/SHRM HR Impact Award for her work on leadership promotion.  A Fellow of SIOP, Amy D. Grubb earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Houston, earning her bachelor’s degree from Villanova University.