Roland Harris is an experienced executive whose career spans senior leadership roles in technology, consulting, and healthcare. He has led large operational organizations of more than 9,000 employees and over 125 executives, overseeing activities that generated up to $4 billion annually. His work reflects a long-standing focus on organizational performance, strategic direction, and operational integrity.
Kevin Bacon was a management consultant with Price Waterhouse and PricwaterhouseCoopers from 1981 to 2002 when PwC was acquired by IBM. During that time Bacon worked on a wide variety of consulting projects with government agencies at the federal, state and local levels. Bacon retired from IBM in 2004.
Bacon was an adjunct professor teaching public management courses in the masters degree program at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He was an adjunct professor from 2006 to 2020.
Grady Means is a retired American business executive and government official, who now writes and develops new businesses. A great deal of his writing is drawn from his business and political experience.
He was born in California in 1946, but spent his childhood in Oklahoma and Kansas before retuning to Southern California in 1955 to finish grammar school (St. Charles elementary) and high school (Notre Dame High School). He attended Stanford University on athletic and academic scholarships and graduated with undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering and economics.
A series of posts from the former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Al Shaffer, looks at pathways to drive innovation and modernization for national defense. Read the first blog in the series.
What if the real question isn’t whether government is working hard—but whether it is actually improving people’s lives? How can leaders move their organizations toward sustained improvement? Why are results-driven reforms are so fragile—and what makes them endure? Join host Michael J. Keegan as he explores these questions and more with John M. Bernard, author of Government That Works: The Results Revolution in the States and founder of America’s Pulse.
What does an AI-enabled government look like? How is AI already transforming government operations today? How should government agencies measure real progress, and when is rapid leapfrogging beneficial vs. risky? Join host Michael J. Keegan as he explores these questions with Faisal Hoque and Erik Nelson co-authors with Tom Davenport of Reimagining Government: Achieving the Promise of AI on a Special Edition of The Business of Government Hour.
