AGA NLT 2025

T118: Little to No Authority?! How Can I Successfully Manage That Decentralized Organization? (Room Horizon Ballroom)

20 Feb 25
2:10 PM - 3:00 PM

Tracks: FOS: MGMT (Management Services)

Speaker(s): Michael Nixon, Branch Chief and Program Manager Financial Systems Modernization, FEMA; George Lopez, Unit Chief, FBI, Finance & Facilities Division; Anita Robertson, FM Systems - FFMIA Oversight Lead, OUSDC

Moderator(s): Michael Huffman, Senior Vice President, cBEYONData;

This session explores how government leaders have achieved success managing decentralized organizations that they have little to no authority over. It’s a major challenge in many decentralized organizations, because the central HQ office is trying to maintain organizational efficiencies with consistent policies, IT systems and business processes. How do you get everyone to use the same system, follow the same process, and report the same way if you cannot mandate that they all do it?