Big Federal HR Conference Scheduled for Fall

Continuing his streak of making news with speeches, OPM Director John Berry just told the audience here at the Coalition for Effective Change that he's asked former Sen. Paul Sarbanes, Laszlo Bock, Google's Vice President for People Operations, and David Ellwood, Dean of Harvard's Kennedy School, to chair a major conference on human resources operations in the federal government in September. Berry says he's met with all the heads of the major public policy schools and gotten their agreements to participate in the conference, and he's inviting labor leaders and the Coalition for Effective Change member groups as well. The conference will be open, Berry says, and focus on the question of how the federal government can become a model employer.