Bob Lavigna is an award-winning public sector leader and innovator with more than 30 years of experience leading public sector HR organizations and programs. Bob’s book, Engaging Government Employees: Motivate and Inspire Your People to Achieve Superior Performance, was published by the American Management Association and is now in its second printing.

He is currently the Director of the Institute for Public Sector Employee Engagement, a division of CPS HR Consulting, an independent government agency. The Institute is dedicated to helping public sector and nonprofit organizations measure and improve employee engagement. In July 2016, he retired from the position of Assistant Vice Chancellor and Director of HR for the University of Wisconsin, a university ranked among the world’s top 25 research institutions.