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Michael J. Novak is Executive Director of the Maryland Performance Excellence Award program. He is a retired U.S. Naval Officer and retired Federal Employee, and is now an independent consultant, specializing in knowledge management, workforce planning, and organizational performance assessment and improvement. He is also President of the Center for Public-Private Enterprise, a Washington, DC-based research organization dedicated to enhancing public-private enterprise at the international, national, state, and local levels. His extensive career in government includes positions with the Internal Revenue Service Office of Procurement, the IRS Office of Research, Department of the Treasury Office of Strategic Planning and Evaluation, the IRS Office of the National Director of Quality, and the Defense Logistics Agency Executive Directorate of Quality Assurance. His significant duties have included drafting the Treasury Department Strategic Plan; serving on task groups chartered by the Vice President’s National Partnership for Reinventing Government; developing and implementing Defense Department procurement policy; and serving as an Examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and other Baldrige-based award programs.

Mr. Novak is a specialist in knowledge management and organizational assessment and improvement, particularly within the context of the Baldrige Award Criteria for Performance Excellence. He lectures and publishes extensively on knowledge management, human capital management, and assessment and improvement of organizational performance, and in particular as guest lecturer at colleges and universities including the University of Denver and the Johns Hopkins University Graduate Division of Business and Management. He also serves as a facilitator for the U.S. Naval Academy Capstone Seminar in Moral Leadership. He has been interviewed on Federal News Radio, and has been featured in periodicals such as Talent Management, Federal Computer Week, and Government Leader. His writings have appeared in FedTech magazine, PMBoulevard, GOVTek Newsletter, EA Zone Journal, and the Government Transformation Journal.

Mr. Novak is a Past President of the Washington, DC, Chapter of the Knowledge Management Professional Society, and has served as Co-Chair of the Federal Knowledge Management Working Group, the Knowledge and Human Capital Retention Special Interest Group, and the Enterprise Risk Management Study Group. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, the University of Maryland, and the U.S. Naval War College. He is a Senior Member of the American Society for Quality, a Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence, and a Certified Quality Engineer. He has also been recognized as a Japan Specialist by the Association for Asian Studies.

Mr. Novak is a resident of Dumfries, Virginia and Harrietta, Michigan.