Mark McDaniel

Background

About Mark McDaniel

Mark McDaniel's city management experience spans now eight Texas cities ranging in size from 8K to 1.3M in population, with an emphasis in finance/budgeting, organizational development, performance improvement, planning, operations management, and economic development. Before recently joining the City of Fort Worth as deputy city manager, Mark provided public management consulting services through SGR. His last consulting assignment was to serve as the City of Fort Worth's greenspace champion, a role he continues to serve in today. Other consulting assignments include executive search and reinventing the budget and research function for the City of Fort Worth, where he served as interim chief transformation officer and created the FWLab - putting into practice the "Rethinking Budgeting" initiative promoted by both the GFOA and ICMA. Prior to his consulting career, Mark served as Kerrville's city manager where he significantly enhanced the city's fiscal position and shepherded development of a new comprehensive plan (Kerrville 2050) that continues to guide the city and foster numerous community and economic development improvements. From 2014 to 2017, Mark served as assistant city manager for the City of Dallas, where he quickly gained greater responsibility that later led to his appointment to first assistant city manager. Mark also created and provided direct leadership for the Dallas Center for Performance Excellence. Before joining the City of Dallas executive team, Mark served as city manager/deputy city manager for the City of Tyler. During his ten years in Tyler, Mark led efforts to receive a bond rating and was the architect for culture change via the city's highly successful Performance Excellence Program (PEP). PEP included extensive use of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodologies, an innovative leadership structure, rigorous strategic/business planning, and award-winning employee training/career development initiatives. Mark has also served in a number of other municipal management roles in Texas during the course of his career, including budget director and assistant city manager for the City of Corpus Christi, city manager for Woodway, assistant city manager for Lake Jackson, and budget director for Denton. Finally, a leader in his profession, Mark has served as Vice President for ICMA, representing the central United States, President for TCMA, and board member for the Alliance for Innovation. He currently serves as chair for the University of North Texas MPA public administration advisory board.