Public Procurement Change Agents

What are the best predictions about trends and themes that will drive our discussion in the year, boiled down into a handful of words?  Our panel starts with a list of five - Talent, Velocity, Portfolio, Digital and Automation - then moves into some additional excellent discussion about Agility, Collaboration, Consultation and Patience.  Panel Participants include Dustin Lanier, Jaime Schorr, Just...

Dustin goes over the Five for Friday content for February 11th.  Find all of the described links at https://www.linkedin.com/dustin-lanier-CPPO

Dustin goes over the Five for Friday content for February 4th (and January 28th).  Find all of the described links at https://www.linkedin.com/dustin-lanier-CPPO

Dustin reads through the recent article on the Content plan for 2022, including a preview discussion about Linkedin Audio, and provides a step through the Five for Friday content for January 21st.  Find all of the described articles and links at https://www.linkedin.com/dustin-lanier-CPPO

Dustin goes over the Five for Friday content for January 7th.  Find all of the described links at https://www.linkedin.com/dustin-lanier-CPPO

Dustin goes over the Five for Friday content for January 7th.  Find all of the described links at https://www.linkedin.com/dustin-lanier-CPPO

Dustin goes over the Five for Friday content for December 31st.  Find all of the described links at https://www.linkedin.com/dustin-lanier-CPPO

Dustin goes over the Five for Friday content for December 24th.  Find all of the described links at https://www.linkedin.com/dustin-lanier

Dustin Lanier launches a new newsletter service on Linkedin via an article reviewing content in 2021. This is an audio recording of that article. Check out this article on Linkedin and subscribe in all channels!

Dustin Lanier goes behind the scenes on the making of the popular "five for friday" content digest produced every week on Linkedin, and overviews the content for December 10th.

Dustin Lanier presents for the Wisconsin Association for Public Procurement on "5 things I wish I Knew"  - a speech in a game format that helps buyers better understand the vendor experience, and vendors better understand the buyer experience.  This excerpt covers the first 10 minutes of this 45 minute presentation to give a preview of this broader topic.  The full speech will be given t...

Dustin facilitates a panel discussion about how Diversity Equity and Inclusion programs and Public Procurement connect.  Panelist include Jaime Schorr, Justin Sullivan, Victor Leamer, Christin Webb, and David Yarkin.  Dustin also describes the DEI Survey out now at https://www.civicinitiatives.com/DEI-survey

Dustin Lanier walks through the survey that Civic Initiatives recently released on Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs and how they interface with public procurement programs.  The survey will be open through December 2nd - please review and participate if you are involved in these programs for a public sector entity!

Dustin Lanier presented for the Mississippi Association of Governmental Purchasing and Property Agents on "It's Go Time - How Procurement Shops Attract and Retain Talent" in a lunch general session on 11/9.  This clip is the first ten minutes of the presentation.  If you are hosting procurement events in the spring and are interested in this or other topics, please reach out for spe...

Recorded during Civic Initiatives 11-year anniversary gathering and planning sessions, Dustin Lanier gets each of the company's practice leads to introduce themselves, tell how they came to Civic, and to introduce what they do.  Practice Leads are Derrek Davis, Woody Fluharty, Charlene Danel and Lisa Rolik,.

Dustin Lanier talks with Gary O Chavez, president of the New Mexico Public Purchasing Association from the expo hall about their annual event, and interesting accommodations they have made for people based on their socializing comfort level.

In a panel discussion for aspects of procurement transformation involving Jarrod McAdoo (Ivalua), Andrew Cochran (State of Ohio) and Vincent Olds (New York City), Dustin had prepared remarks on being a public procurement change agent that fostered the rest of the panel discussion.  Find the full panel presentation on the NIGP website!

The National Association of Chief Administrators speaking series hosted a panel on October 8th with Pam Goins, Executive Director, facilitating a discussion with Curt Topper, Chief Administrative Officer for Pennsylvania, Dustin Lanier, Civic Initiatives Founder, and Jaime Schorr, CPO for Maine and President-Elect for the National Association of Chief Procurement Officers.

With factors such as managing burnout, dealing with back to the office scenarios and a newly mobile workforce, what do procurement shops need to do to attract and retain talent today?  Dustin Lanier facilitates our practitioner panel this episode in discussion, including Jaime Schorr, Justin Sullivan, Jenny Hedderman, James Crenshaw, Christin Webb and Christina Semeraro.

Dustin gives an opening panel fast talk on things to keep in mind when considering outsourcing for the Sout African conference on Smart Procurement World, and what effect Covid-19 had on that proposition. 

From the District 6 NAEP event in Early September, Ed and Dustin discuss the University of Colorado's approach to scoping and executing on procurement transformation projects, and the ability to incorporate and utilize partners like Civic Initiatives to augment the internal team and accelerate certain key outcomes.

Dustin Lanier talks with Mediacy Mudekwa about the upcoming Smart Procurement World conference, the largest procurement conference in Africa.  Dustin was asked to do a fast talk on approaches to outsourcing/outtasking and considerations when managing such a set of decisions. 

Gillian Gillett, program manager for integrated mobility at CalTrans (and Civic Initiatives client), talks with Dustin Lanier about innovative and ongoing procurement initiatives being driven by CalTrans related to public transit and recent announcements from other states in participating in the outcomes of these solicitations.

Dustin and Fred talk about the NIGP virtual forum and the upcoming procurement leadership summit in September.

Dustin interviews the newest Civic Initiatives team member Devin Howard about her approach to education and certification as she develops her public procurement career.  Dustin also reviews content from the week on education and certification options posted to Linkedin.