Growing the Next Generation: A Succession Planning Case Study with Lisa Doyle

Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - by Lisa Doyle
Sponsored By: Blackboard ProEd

Training and effective succession planning are vital to organizational success. Learn how a transformational curriculum accelerates the learning curve; reduces time to performance; increases productivity; builds competence and confidence; and emphasizes the translation of theory, fundamentals and concepts to practical application.  Lisa Doyle, Chancellor of the VA Acquisition Academy, will share the Academy’s experiential learning model created to change behavior and improve performance, contributing to a stronger, more capable 21st century organization.

Communities of Practice:   Government

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    Lisa Doyle

    Lisa Doyle is the Chancellor of the VA Acquisition Academy as a member of the Senior Executive Service, where she fosters and promotes the development of VA acquisition professionals.  As head of the Academy, Ms. Doyle formulates and delivers the strategies needed to develop acquisition business advisors.  With more than 29 years of experience as an acquisition professional in both the federal and private sector, she is responsible for training the VA acquisition workforce by instilling essential competencies and skills, establishing career development programs, and developing meaningful experiential learning opportunities.  Ms. Doyle oversees five schools at the Academy including Acquisition Internship, Program Management, Contracting Professional, Facilities Management, and Supply Chain Management Schools.  The schools were created to train and certify the next generation of acquisition professionals, program and project managers, contracting officer technical representatives, facility managers, supply chain managers and logisticians, and the existing acquisition workforce. More...