Amy Squires

Background

About Amy Squires

Mission outcomes-oriented professional with extensive experience in state and federal agency, corporate, and non-profit settings, helping organizations achieve greater success through evidence-based, results-focused decision-making. Proven problem-solver with management consulting experience: undaunted by ambiguity; able to untangle complexity and sniff out issues to diagnose strategic as well as tactical people/process/technology needs. Consistently asks the key questions-why? to what end? how would we know-to guide work toward measurable results. Learning-oriented, having led and participated in a number of research efforts: one using serious games and agent-based modeling to simulate the effects of different employee performance measures on overall organizational performance; a study of effective strategic management practices; and one recommending a strategy for the US in global space traffic coordination. Experience in a range of mission areas: homeland security, including critical infrastructure and immigration/counter-terrorism; veterans affairs; commerce, including commercial space and federal statistics; and treasury. Functional expertise in: business strategy, strategic thinking, and strategic planning; enterprise performance measurement, evaluation, and management; governance; portfolio management; policy and regulatory analysis and development; and process improvement.