With over 37 years of Federal service (twenty of those years as a senior executive), Ronald Sanders has achieved a government-wide reputation as a human capital visionary, change agent, and innovator, playing a key leadership role in some of the Federal government’s most historic organizational transformations – including the establishment of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, development of revolutionary new personnel systems for the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense, and the restructuring of the Internal Revenue Service.  Over the course of his career, he has served as Director of Civilian Personnel for the Defense Department, Chief Human Resource Officer for the IRS, Director of Policy for the US Office of Personnel Management, and Chief Human Capital Officer for the US Intelligence Community.

Now a Senior Executive Advisor consulting for Booz Allen Hamilton, Ron was recently named the firm’s very first Booz Allen Fellow, in recognition of his stature as one of the nation’s preeminent experts in human capital management.   A 2010 finalist for the Partnership for Public Service’s Service to America Career Achievement Medal, he has earned Presidential Rank Awards in three different agencies, two Theodore Roosevelt Awards (OPM’s highest honor), and an Innovations in American Government Award from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government; Ron is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and a Board Member of the American Society for Training and Development, and he has taught and directed research centers at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the George Washington University.