ICF Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Tune into our third episode of “Energy in 30: Pressures are motivating tectonic regulatory shifts,” to hear from Cameron Brooks, president of E9 Insight, an information service focusing on regulatory actions and trends that have an impact on clean energy and consumer technologies transforming the electric utility industry. Cameron is also instrumental in creating the coalition Think Microgrid, which provides political leaders with the resources they need to understand how microgrid technologies work, what role they can play in achieving policy goals, and how regulatory reforms can proactively address barriers that exist today. With nearly two decades of experience in public policy, capital markets, and electricity regulation, Cameron brings a unique perspective to this conversation.
Join us as we discuss issues in the regulatory environment. Topics in today’s episode include:
- The decisions policymakers make today lay the foundation for the market designs of tomorrow
- Policymakers bear a great responsibility to keep pace with other states and new technologies
- Utility markets need to be resilient, clean, and equitable
- Rgulatory innovations such as open access to the distribution grid and a grid designed around the flows—not the storage—of energy
Tune into our second episode of “Energy in 30: Customer co-creation advances clean energy future,” to hear from Paul Di Martini, executive director of the Pacific Energy Institute, more commonly known as PEI. He recently published white papers that are must-reads for anyone in the energy industry. Paul draws insights from what’s happening at the forefront of distributed power systems, including an evaluation of customer choices around energy and resilience.
Today, we’ll dive in and talk about the rise of customer-driven utility offerings and how these play a critical role in advancing a sustainable future.
In this episode, we will cover such topics as:
- Building a next-generation energy grid and viewing customers as partners
- Using design thinking as a fundamental path to customer evolution
- Adopting to prosumerism and how consumer-centric products and services are on the rise
- Tipping over the midpoint in this transition to a more distributed future
Traditional utility pilots have delivered mixed results. They can be slow to get off the ground and take years to complete. But as utility leaders know, today’s most pressing energy challenges—meeting decarbonization goals, ensuring grid resilience, and delivering solutions that satisfy evolving customer needs—demand a faster and more effective way to test new ideas.
Innovation is essential, but it's also important to avoid “death by a thousand pilots.” How can you move beyond ad hoc piloting and learn to innovate quickly?
Tune into our inaugural episode of “Energy in 30”, hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier, to hear from Kevin Duffy, an ICF energy innovations guru who leads boundary-pushing pilot programs that pave the way for the utilities of the future. The conversation covers topics such as:
- How embracing an Agile approach to pilots allows you to shorten timeframes, accelerate ideas, and capture learnings to let data drive decisions
- An overview of ICF’s Innovation Incubator, a data-driven utility pilot accelerator that contains 360 ideas and 40 in-flight projects
- Creative ways to navigate funding challenges and identify small-scale, inexpensive tests to learn from and pursue
- Examples of emerging technologies that utilities are using to innovate programs and advance their goals
The pandemic has helped shed light on serious gaps in rural broadband access and how these gaps can pose significant challenges for rural education.
Experts from the Academic Development Institute, Appalachian Regional Commission, Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, and our Child Welfare and Education division discuss how to overcome broadband and educational gaps in rural communities to promote economic and workforce development.
We cover:
- Understanding the tensions rural students face when contemplating higher education
- Expanding the occupational opportunities within a rural community while elevating the educational prospects of students
- Recognizing the importance of broadband accessibility
- Building strategies for rural communities to promote economic and workplace development
In this podcast, Kelli Reddick of ICF is joined by Josh Overmyer, a certified floodplain manager for a coastal county in Florida, and Eddy Bouza, deputy state floodplain manager for the State of Florida, to discuss floodplain management and changes coming to FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
In this podcast, Jen Folsom of ICF Next speaks with Caitlin Howley of the ICF child welfare and education team, Sam Redding from the Academic Development Institute, and Janet Throckmorton, principal of Fancy Farm Elementary School, to discuss the unique aspects of rural schools in the U.S. and how they’re responding to the challenges of COVID-19.
In episode 7 of Energy Renewed, Katie Janik of ICF speaks with Chris Pollack of the ICF technical advisory team, Sandy Calvert from insurance advisor Moore-McNeil, and Eric Daniels, founder and owner of Sun Cycle, to discuss how to get renewable energy projects back online after an unforeseen event. This episode is the third of three in our series; it focuses on the technical aspects of rebuilding and repairing a project that was impacted by unforeseen events.
In this episode of our Climate Risk podcast series, hosted by Brad Hurley, senior communications consultant at ICF, a leading climate expert discusses how floodplain maps alone may misrepresent accurate flood risk, and how climate change and access to flood risk information affects property values.
The conversation with Miyuki Hino, Ph.D., assistant professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, environmental science, covers topics such as:
- The effect flood risk information has on residential property values in the United States
- How property valuations will shift as flood hazards expand due to climate change
- Why it’s important to consider floodplain maps when purchasing a property and how to distinguish between historical flood data and actual flood risk
- How the government could play more of a role in conveying accurate flood risk to buyers
In episode 6 of Energy Renewed, host Katie Janik speaks with Chris Pollack, of the ICF technical advisory team; Sandy Calvert, from insurance advisor Moore McNeil; and Eric Daniels, founder and owner of Sun Cycle, to discuss how to get renewable energy projects back online after an unforeseen event.
This episode is the second of three in our series that focuses on insurance and how trends and pricing are impacted by unforeseen events.
In episode 5 of the Energy Renewed podcast—hosted by Katie Janik, asset management advisor at ICF—we kick off a new Unforeseen Events miniseries.
Unforeseen events require diligence and outside-of-the-box thinking to bring renewable energy projects back to a certain level of power production.
In part 1, hear from Chris Pollack of the ICF technical advisory team, Sandy Calvert from insurance advisor Moore-McNeil, and Eric Daniels, founder and owner of Suncycle, as they discuss the commercial side of the process of getting a renewable energy project back online after an unforeseen event.
Part 2 will focus on insurance pricing and trends and part 3 will focus on the technical aspects of rebuilding and repairing a project.
In episode 4 of our Energy Renewed podcast series — host Katie Janik, asset management advisor at ICF, speaks to Paul McGuire who was part of the team that created a short circuit program that eventually became Computer Aided Protection Engineering (CAPE) software.
Katie is also joined by Baldwin Yeung, VP of CMY Solutions, who discusses the impact of CAPE software as a foundation for the power industry for grid protection and reliability. The conversation covers the background of this important software and what it contributes to the reliability of the grid.
In this episode, host Caitlin Howley, director of child welfare and education at ICF, examines the issue of racial equity in Appalachian education. The conversation with Director of the Regional Comprehensive Center, Kandace Jones, and First2 Network Program Coordinator, Jade Irving, covers such topics as:
- Why racial equity in education matters so much for the future of Appalachia.
- Current trends and shifting attitudes toward social justice in Appalachia.
- The importance of student exposure and staff training in reaching racial equity.
- The achievement and opportunity gaps in learning—and what to do about them.
- The systemic nature of racial inequality in education, and the systemic solutions required to combat the issue.
NOTE: Jade Irving appears on this podcast in a personal capacity. She does not represent the views of her employer.
In this episode, hosts David Speiser, Ph.D., executive vice president at ICF, and Nicola Dawkins-Lyn, Ph.D., vice president of research science at ICF, explore how public health in the United States links up—and doesn’t—with the larger global health landscape.
The conversation with Director of Emory University’s Global Health Institute Dr. Jeff Koplan covers topics such as:
- The relationship between U.S. healthcare and the nation’s larger patterns of government.
- The ways global health issues affect the United States and highlight the world’s interconnectivity.
- The skills the U.S. public health workforce needs to operate in a global environment.
- The increasingly apparent role of climate change as an influence on public health issues.
- The importance of creative public health messaging in motivating U.S. citizens to stay healthy over time.
In this episode of our podcast, host by Dr. Caitlin Howley , director of child welfare and education at ICF, is joined by Dr. John Ross, one of ICF’s experts on instructional design and blended learning, to discuss the challenges students, parents, and educators across Appalachia are facing as they deal with COVID-19.
They cover topics such as:
- The effect limited resources have on every aspect of the educational experience.
- How different schools and school districts are addressing internet access and barriers to technology.
- What online learning reveals about student engagement prior to the pandemic.
- Positive changes in education that will likely remain long after COVID-19 is no longer a threat.
In this episode of our Climate Risk series, host Brad Hurley, senior communications consultant at ICF, is joined by Jesse Keenan, a social scientist at Tulane University and one of the editors of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Managing Climate Risk in the U.S. Financial System report, to discuss how the private sector is poised to do its part to manage climate risk.
The conversation covers topics such as:
- Transitional risks as society shifts to a net zero carbon strategy.
- The wide-reaching impacts of a regional event (e.g. wildfires, drought) on multiple commodity markets.
- How changing consumer preferences amplify uncertainties—and opportunities.
- Steps regulators can take to prepare for risks related to climate change.
- Barriers to financial institutions’ ability to measure their climate risk.
In this episode, host David Speiser, Ph.D., executive vice president at ICF, and Nicola Dawkins-Lyn, Ph.D., MPH, a behavioral scientist at ICF, speak to Dr. Marcus Plescia, the chief medical officer at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), a national nonprofit organization that tracks, evaluates, and advises public health professionals across the U.S. and its territories to provide guidance and technical assistance.
The conversation covers topics such as:
- What state and territorial public health departments can do to influence social determinants of health.
- The connections between state departments of health and other state government agencies.
- What the public health enterprise can do to unite the country around better public health outcomes.
- The difference, from a state public health leader’s perspective, between working in centralized and decentralized public health systems.
Host David Speiser, Ph.D., executive vice president at ICF, and Nicola Dawkins-Lyn, Ph.D., MPH, a behavioral scientist at ICF, speak to Lori Freeman of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), a membership organization representing the nearly 3,000 local health departments across the country, on the role of the public health system during—and after—the pandemic.
- The conversation covers topics such as:
- Fragmentation and the disparate strategies and priorities of different regions across the U.S.
- Ways to engage with rural public health organizations.
- Equity factors that contribute to a person’s overall health, and systemic barriers health departments must work to remove.
- How to keep population healthy at such a polarized time.
- The crisis of a decreasing public health workforce, especially in the field of nursing.
How can we unlock the power of the private sector to scale up technologies and services that facilitate climate resilience and adaptation?
That’s the question on our minds in this podcast, as we continue to explore climate risk from a variety of perspectives.
Hosted by Brad Hurley, senior communications consultant at ICF; and Peter Schultz, Ph.D., vice president, climate and resilience; this conversation with Jay Koh, co-founder and managing director of The Lightsmith Group, a sustainable private equity firm in New York City, covers topics such as:
- The differences between investing in climate resilience and making climate resilient investments.
- The range of tools—from data and analytics to products and services—that investors use to help assess the evolving challenges that climate change introduces as risks become more complex and move from one area to another.
- How to use investment in the policy context as a tool for supporting sustainable development.
- New frontiers and untapped opportunities in advancing resilience in the private sector.
Why it’s important to create and invest in products and services that are both designed for a more climate-changed future and superior in quality to present-day alternatives.
In this podcast, hosted by David Speiser, Ph.D., executive vice president at ICF, we speak to three leaders at Inova Health System to capture the provider perspective on the challenges and opportunities we face at this moment.
The conversation with Stephen J. Motew, MD, MHA, FACS, chief, clinical enterprise, Inova Health System; Maureen Sintich, DNP, MBA, RN, WHNP-BC, NEA-BC, chief nurse executive, Inova Health System; and Chalapathy Venkatesan, MD, MS, FACP, chief quality and safety officer, Inova Health System, covers:
- The role of Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) and the relationships between providers and different levels of the government’s public health enterprise.
- The interplay between the health system and the community, both within and beyond healthcare facilities.
- Data sources that are available through state and federal resources, and how that data is applied in the provider realm.
- How qualitative feedback through resources, alliances, and partnerships enabled Inova Health System to redesign its care during COVID-19.
- How rapid credentialing has changed the provider landscape.
In this podcast, hosted by Brad Hurley, senior communications consultant at ICF, one of ICF’s leading climate experts discusses how businesses plan for climate uncertainty and the corresponding risks. The conversation with Peter Schultz, Ph.D., vice president, climate and resilience, covers topics such as:
- The difference between the key forms of climate risk: physical and transition.
- The drivers pushing businesses to evaluate their climate risk.
- Which countries and business sectors are leading the way in being proactive about climate risk.
- The different approaches businesses can take to mitigate their climate risk.
Host David Speiser, Ph.D., executive vice president at ICF, is joined by Virginia State Health Commissioner Dr. Norman Oliver for a candid discussion on the pandemic response from the front lines.
The conversation covers topics such as:
- The fragmented nature of public health across the U.S. and how states vary in their approaches.
- The role of the Virginia Department of Health in regulating hospital capacity, along with lessons being absorbed from the COVID-19 emergency about how to maintain surge capacity of facilities and medical professionals.
- How to align the public with the need to embrace critical public health interventions such as vaccine acceptance, masking, and physical distancing requirements.
- Recommendations for how to effectively prioritize new or modernized public health information systems after the pandemic, while also ensuring that they are truly national and universal.
In episode 3 of Energy Renewed, Katie Janik of ICF speaks with Steve Becker of the ICF technical advisory team within our Commercial Energy Division; Whitney Hampton, senior project manager in the RETC Group at US Bank Community Development Corporation; and Dan Miller, managing director of Origination at CIT, to discuss the impact of COVID-19 from the perspective of investors and lenders of renewable energy projects.
This episode is the second part of two episodes developed to explore how COVID-19 is impacting renewable energy transactions.
In episode 2 of Energy Renewed, Katie Janik of ICF speaks with Heidi Marie Larson, who leads the ICF technical advisory team within ICF’s Commercial Energy Division, and Kevin Christy, COO of North America at LightSource BP, to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on owners and developers of renewable energy projects.
This episode is part one of a two part series developed to explore how COVID-19 is impacting renewable energy transactions.
Given the high stakes involved in the COVID-19 pandemic, there has never been a more urgent time to take a hard look at America’s public health enterprise and all of its deficiencies. Only then can we map out the ambitious plan that will be required to fix it.
Join David Speiser, executive vice president at ICF, as he discusses the limitations of America’s public health system and how it has crippled our response to the COVID-19 pandemic with three of ICF’s leading public health experts: Jen Welham, senior vice president of ICF’s health and human services business; Mary Schwarz, managing partner of ICF Next’s government division; and Christine Walrath, chief science officer for ICF.
Several weeks ago, we released a COVID-19 funding podcast that was based on our initial understanding of the federal funding that’s available for state and local governments with regards to COVID-19 response and recovery. While much of our original recommendations are still relevant and accurate, this is an unprecedented and rapidly evolving situation. There are new cooperative agreements and updated options that state and local governments can take advantage of.
In this episode, hear again from three of ICF’s emergency management experts—Meghan Treber, Kelly Price, and Marty Altman—as they explain the federal funding options available to state and local governments and eligible private nonprofits for COVID-19 response. Moderated by Marko Bourne, former director of policy at FEMA.
We've also published a list of helpful resources compiled by our disaster management experts to provide clarification on relevant response and recovery topics: https://www.icf.com/insights/disaster-management/covid-19-resources
What if I told you that you could raise your prices by 30%, cut half of your products—and still have excited customers and a growing business? The challenge, however, is that you have to transform your business model, re-arrange several internal departments, and invest in technology to create personalized experiences.
For the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), its need to transform was not just about maintaining and growing membership. It was about understanding how to deliver real value to its members in the right way. That meant looking at essentially a 200-year-old business model and deciding to do better. By evaluating outside industries, HFMA identified a new set of experiences it could adopt and expand to create something new, but familiar to its membership.
In this podcast we talk to Garth Jordan, Chief Strategy Officer & Senior Vice President of HFMA about this multi-year journey of transformation. Moderated by Fred Faulkner, Partner at ICF Next.
It is early May of 2020. Americans have been practicing social distancing and sheltering in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic for almost two months. The widespread closure of schools, businesses, and government facilities has led to resource constraints, economic woes, and logistical challenges at all levels of society. And we’re about to enter natural disaster season. Midwest flooding, hurricanes, severe storms, and wildfires will sweep the country in the coming months—while we’re still dealing with COVID-19 restrictions.
In this episode of our Navigating COVID-19 podcast, Steven Kral, EMS Director for ATCS, PLC and Michael Junell, Director of Public Assistance for ICF, help those on the front lines of disaster management navigate a safe and effective path forward. Moderated by Marko Bourne, Senior Vice President of Disaster Management for ICF.
We've also published a list of helpful resources compiled by our disaster management experts to provide clarification on relevant response and recovery topics: https://www.icf.com/insights/disaster-management/covid-19-resources
Risk management is used primarily to identify the steps we can take to avoid loss or lessen the impact of threats such as hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and terrorism. But what about pandemics? What do risk leaders in business and government need to bear in mind as they respond to the current COVID-19 crisis—and prepare for a future that may very likely include additional waves of infection?
In this episode of our Navigating COVID-19 podcast, Reid Sawyer, Head, Emerging Risks Group and U.S. Cyber Risk Consulting Practice Leader, Marsh; and Susan West, Vice President of Risk Management for ICF discuss how to mitigate the risks associated with a pandemic, and what business and governmental risk leaders need to think about today to prepare for an uncertain future. Moderated by Marko Bourne, Vice President of Disaster Management and former director of policy at FEMA.
We've also published a list of helpful resources compiled by our disaster management experts to provide clarification on relevant response and recovery topics: https://www.icf.com/insights/disaster-management/covid-19-resources
HUD’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding supports state and local governments in their community development and housing missions. It’s also used for disaster relief (CDBG-DR) and mitigation efforts (CDBG-MIT). The COVID-19 pandemic and the CARES Act have introduced a new category of CDBG funds that grantees can take advantage of in their pandemic recovery efforts—CDBG-CV.
In this episode of our Navigating COVID-19 podcast, three ICF experts explain how grantees can leverage new and existing federal funding options for COVID-19 recovery efforts, and how to navigate changing rules and procurement requirements in light of the pandemic. Kelly Price, vice president of community development; Deborah Siefert, senior disaster recovery consultant; and Karolyn Gardner, vice president of contracts and pricing, discuss how HUD is implementing the COVID-19 CARES Act funding and share advice and procurement best practices with grantees. Moderated by Marko Bourne, vice president of disaster management and former director of policy at FEMA.
We've also published a list of helpful resources compiled by our disaster management experts to provide clarification on relevant response and recovery topics: https://www.icf.com/insights/disaster-management/covid-19-resources
The novel coronavirus is impacting us all in dramatic ways. Individuals, families, companies, governments, and industries around the world are reeling from the effects of COVID-19. The insurance industry is no exception. As insured businesses experience loss of revenue, they are looking to their insurance policies for help. How is the industry responding?
In this podcast, two insurance and risk experts weigh in on the impact of COVID-19 on the insurance industry. Nancy Sylvester, area executive vice president and public sector national director of federal disaster recovery for Arthur J. Gallagher, and Susan West, vice president of risk management for ICF, discuss insurance and how it affects our clients at the state, federal, local, and private sector levels with regards to COVID-19. Moderated by Marko Bourne, vice president of disaster management and former director of policy at FEMA.
We've also published a list of helpful resources compiled by our disaster management experts to provide clarification on relevant response and recovery topics: https://www.icf.com/insights/disaster-management/covid-19-resources
Most people understand Individual Assistance as the FEMA program that individuals turn to after a natural disaster to receive temporary housing repair money, low interest loans from the SBA, and other benefits.
COVID-19 is a different kind of disaster. There are no floods or fires, and people have been ordered to stay in their homes. While the majority of the Individual Assistance awards are not applicable to this pandemic, there are some ways that IA can be leveraged now to provide relief.
In this episode of the Navigating COVID-19 podcast, Meghan Treber, Senior Director for Emergency Preparedness and Public Health Preparedness; Kelly Wilson, Disaster Management Consultant; and Marty Altman, Vice President for Disaster Recovery—discuss the applications of FEMA’s Individual Assistance program to the COVID-19 pandemic. Moderated by Marko Bourne, Senior Vice President, Disaster Management and former director of policy at FEMA.
We've also published a list of helpful resources compiled by our disaster management experts to provide clarification on relevant response and recovery topics: https://www.icf.com/insights/disaster-management/covid-19-resources
The unprecedented scale of the novel coronavirus outbreak is a challenge at every level: from individuals and families to communities and states, we are all struggling to make the best possible decisions in a climate of heightened fear and anxiety. Fortunately, the federal government has funding in place to help state and local governments—as well as hospitals and healthcare facilities—pay for essential COVID-19 expenses.
More information on this topic: https://www.icf.com/insights/disaster-management/public-health-impacts-covid-19
Links to resources mentioned in the podcast:
CDC
Frequently Asked Questions: COVID-19 Crisis Response Cooperative Agreement - Components A and B Supplemental Funding Interim G: https://www.cdc.gov/cpr/readiness/00_docs/COVID-19_Supplemental_Funding_FAQs_FINAL_508.pdf
Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA): https://www.cdc.gov/cpr/readiness/00_docs/CDC-RFA-TP18-1802_Sup-Guid-COVID-19-Crisis-CoAg_Supplemental.pdf?deliveryName=DM24192
FOA Additional Information: https://www.cdc.gov/cpr/readiness/00_docs/PHEP_Grants_Management_Call_508c.pdf
ASPR/HPP
HHS Provides $100 Million to Help U.S. Healthcare Systems Prepare For COVID-19 Patients: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/03/24/hhs-provides-100-million-to-help-us-healthcare-systems-prepare-for-covid-19-patients.html
Hospital Preparedness Grants: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=hospital%20preparedness%20program
FEMA
Eligible emergency protective measures: https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2020/03/19/coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-eligible-emergency-protective-measures
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Emergency Medical Care: https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2020/03/31/coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-emergency-medical-care
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Non-Congregate Sheltering: https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2020/03/31/coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-non-congregate-sheltering
We've also published a list of helpful resources compiled by our disaster management experts to provide clarification on relevant response and recovery topics: https://www.icf.com/insights/disaster-management/covid-19-resources
COVID-19 is an unprecedented public health emergency that has placed tremendous stress on the United States. As the crisis unfolds, with new information coming out daily, many state and local governments are left wondering what to do. What costs will the federal government cover, and how should you manage your emergency response efforts to make sure you get the funding you desperately need? These are urgent questions and there’s not a second to waste.
More information: https://www.icf.com/insights/disaster-management/covid-19-leveraging-federal-dollars
We've also published a list of helpful resources compiled by our disaster management experts to provide clarification on relevant response and recovery topics: https://www.icf.com/insights/disaster-management/covid-19-resources
In episode 1 of Energy Renewed, Katie Janik of ICF speaks with Lynsey Tibbs of Southern Power Company and Jason Kaminsky of kWh Analytics to discuss operational project data collected from renewable energy projects.
Energy efficiency has been around for decades, and it continues to play a big role both for utilities and their business customers. As utility data gets smarter, they’re able to provide better services to their customers and deliver more personalized, targeted outreach about how and why commercial businesses (and residential customers!) should invest in energy efficiency measures.
And they can expand beyond the traditional “feet on the street,” one-to-one approach. Now, utilities can use the latest targeted advertising techniques to reach commercial customers, build awareness, garner interest, and ultimately increase participation.
In this podcast, join the discussion with Tom Brubaker, senior marketing specialist at PECO, and Nancy Caplan, vice president of marketing and engagement for commercial energy at ICF.
In this podcast, ICF energy experts explore the energy storage landscape, emerging applications and design, and how to unlock full potential of energy storage.
If you're interested in starting a career in the management consulting industry, listen to this podcast to hear advice from our recruiters and recent college graduates on the skills and materials you'll need to get noticed.
Hosts Andrew LaVanway and Marko Bourne explore opportunities for using data and analytics to prepare for and respond to disasters, and the ways that state and local governments, federal government, private sector, and non-government organizations can coordinate, share data, and work together more seamlessly to address present and future disasters – both natural and manmade.
Policymakers across the United States are struggling to determine the best model for optimizing electric power distribution that meets their priorities and grid needs. Senior Associate Meegan Kelly and Senior Manager Matt Robison share ICF's perspectives on the current dynamics and where things are going.
How will the energy industry change in the aftermath of the 2018 midterm elections? Will a set of new faces enact substantial change in D.C. and state capitols?
Our energy team highlights the potential outcomes that may occur in the immediate aftermath of the election in our latest podcast. We cover federal and local trends to unearth potential changes for utilities, regulators, developers and investors.
In this episode of The Spark, ICF Senior VP Kris Tremaine talks to a panel of millennial employees about their values, thoughts on innovation happening in federal agencies, common misconceptions about working for the government, and tips for government on attracting millennials to its workforce. Tune in to hear more.
A captivating profile is key to your success on LinkedIn. It’s your first representation to the online networking world when promoting yourself to future employers, potential clients, and the business world. Catch these tips for maximizing your LinkedIn profile and nailing down your personal brand from our recruiting team at ICF.
Web metrics are important, but only with a plan to convert reporting to action. ICF digital strategists Josh DeLung and David Vaughan share some tips on how you can start.
Hosts Rachelle Roberts and T Clark are back with advice that will help you prepare for the next step toward getting hired: the interview itself.
Digital and social media have changed the standards of crisis management and communications, but many organizations haven’t adapted their crisis planning or approach to account for this huge shift. With the downfall of the 24-hour news cycle and the rise of the nanosecond news cycle and citizen journalists, that is a setup for failure.
In this episode of The Spark podcast, Rachelle Roberts, Energy Efficiency and Transportation Recruiter, and T Clark, Director of Recruiting Operations, share their tips for networking your way to the interview process.
ICF's Rachelle Roberts and T Clark discuss how you can use personal branding to get ahead in your career.