Good afternoon thank you for joining today's webinar titled how Fish and Wildlife Service reels in top talent I'm Tom Formby from the recruitment policy and outreach team here at OPM and I'm pleased to welcome you to the webinar please allow me to introduce today's speakers excuse me while I shuffle the papers Denise Denise Ian denise is the assistant director for budget planning and human capital after entering the senior executive service in june nineteen ninety eight denise champion and implemented the high-profile administrative initiatives that increased transparency and accountability for the agency's mission critical priorities she received the presidential rank award in 2004 for her outstanding achievements from nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty six she worked in the private and nonprofit sectors of the mental health field denise joined the department of interior in 1986 as a budget analyst for the office of the secretary in concert with her post-graduate presidential management internship in this capacity mission managed accounts for the National Park Service the US Fish and Wildlife Service in the office of territorial and international affairs she earned the office of the Secretary's Equal Employment Opportunity certificate of appreciation for her collateral work as an EEO counselor and successfully completed the departmental management development program in 1992 she became the deputy executive director of the North American waterfowl and wetlands office before being selected as the special assistant to the deputy director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service Denise graduated magna laude from the College of William and Mary in 1978 with majors in psychology and sociology in 1986 she obtained her masters of Public Administration degree with an emphasis on budget from oldham in University and in 2004 she completed her master of science degree in human development at Virginia Tech our second presenter is Peggy Phelps she is the huge chief human capital officer for the US Fish and Wildlife Service she joined the service in 2006 after 24 years with with NASA where she held various positions at Goddard Space Flight Center nasha headquarters and Langley Research Center in Hampton Virginia as chief human capital officer Peggy directs the bureau's human resources HR systems and equal opportunity and diversity branches she has extensive experience in human resources management and has worked tirelessly to integrate and position human capital management as a vital mission critical program so thank you for attending in person thank you for attending virtually and I give you Denise and Peggy thank you thank you Tom oh I'm Denise and I will start out by just going over some highlights from today's presentation we're going to look at how the Fish and Wildlife Service looks at branding and the types of information that the service chooses to brand how branding information is used on to onboard or bring people on board in the Fish and Wildlife Service and our future outreach and recruitment and to be or not to be DC centric that is District of
