Jenny Knowles Morrison

Jenny Knowles Morrison

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Dr. Jenny Knowles Morrison’s body of work has focused on exploring the human dimensions of policy implementation processes. She is a three-time National Science Foundation awardee, focused on building new pathways to support social scientists in their efforts to transmit evidence-based social science innovations to relevant policy stakeholders. Her current attention is focused on evolving public service education to better address emerging grand challenges facing future public leaders. Dr.

Preparing the Next Generation of Federal Leaders: Agency-Based Leadership Development Programs

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Successful leaders envision, shape, and safeguard the future, creating clarity amidst uncertainty. This objective is increasingly difficult in an era where rapid, unforeseen change seems constant. Agencies face serious public management challenges that go to the core of effective governance and leadership, requiring innovation, collaboration, flexibility, and understanding of the capacity needed to tackle complex, non-routine challenges.

Research Fellow, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
The University of Texas at Austin
United States

jenny.knowles.morrison@utexas.edu

Dr. Jenny Knowles Morrison’s body of work has focused on exploring the human dimensions of policy implementation processes. She is a three-time National Science Foundation awardee, focused on building new pathways to support social scientists in their efforts to transmit evidence-based social science innovations to relevant policy stakeholders. Her current attention is focused on evolving public service education to better address emerging grand challenges facing future public leaders. Dr. Morrison holds a PhD in Public Administration from New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service.