White House Announces Inaugural Participants in Program to Develop New Federal Leaders

Government Executive: The Obama administration on Tuesday announced the first-ever class of the White House Leadership Development Program, an initiative the president created last year in an effort to cultivate a new cadre of top career federal managers.

Sixteen federal supervisors currently employed as General Schedule-15s from agencies throughout government will participate in the program, in which the managers will spend one year making stops across government to tackle cross-agency projects. The participants went through a “rigorous selection process,” acting Office of Personnel Management Director Beth Cobert said, and come from “all walks of life and every corner of America.”

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