Myra Shiplett is the leader of PNSR’s human capital team.  She and her team contributed identified human capital issues and provided proposed solutions to these issues in PNSR’s three major publications - Forging a New Shield, Turning Ideas into Actions and Toward Integrating Complex National Missions:  Lessons from the National Counterterrorism Center’s Directorate of Strategic Operational Planning. 

She has significant experience planning, designing, developing, implementing and evaluating human resources and administrative systems to increase organizational effectiveness and efficiency.

Through her consulting firm, RandolphMorgan Consulting LLC, Ms. Shiplett provides consulting services for federal, state and local government agencies, foreign governments and international organizations, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and businesses seeking to implement strategic, integrated approaches to organizational change. 

 

President, RandolphMorgan Consulting, LLC – President of consulting firm that focuses on strategic planning, human capital planning and management, performance management, pay for performance system design and implementation, and organizational transformation.  The firm works with local, state and federal governments in the United States.  It also works with foreign governments and international organizations.  International areas of expertise include public service reform, human capital management and organizational transformation. Among her recent projects are court reform projects in Indonesia and Albania, and providing assistance to the Government of Iraq as it reestablishes its merit based civil service system.

 

National Academy of Public Administration

The Academy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization chartered by Congress to make governments more effective and more efficient.  As Director of the Academy’s Center for Human Resources Management, Ms. Shiplett worked with local, state, federal and foreign governments to improve the quality of human resources programs and decision-making. She directed a consortium of 65 - 70 local, state, federal and international organizations and agencies to develop creative solutions to human resources issues.  She directed and conducted research on human resources issues and identified current and future trends and innovative practices in the public and private sectors.

Federal Public Service

Ms Shiplett was a senior career executive in the federal judiciary as the Assistant Director for Human Resources and Statistics, and a career member of the Senior Executive Service.  Her positions in the Executive Branch included Director of Administration for a banking regulatory agency, Assistant Director for Passport Services and Assistant Director for Human Resources for the Department of State.  Ms. Shiplett also served as an executive for the Office of Personnel Management and as the Director of Personnel for the Federal Trade Commission.

In addition to the PNSR reports, Ms. Shiplett’s most recent publications include:

• Innovations in Human Resource Management:  Getting the Public’s Work Done in the 21st Century, co-edited with Hannah S. Sistare and Terry E. Buss, National Academy of Public Administration, November 2008.
• Strategic Human Capital Management:  A Practical Guide, co-authored with Susan Krup Grunin, PhD, and Kerry Joels, EdD, 2008