In June of 2005, Director of National Intelligence Ambassador John Negroponte appointed Dr. Ronald P. Sanders to the Senior National Intelligence Service as the U.S. Intelligence Community's (IC) Chief Human Capital Officer. In this newly created position, Dr. Sanders is responsible for human resources (HR) strategies and policies supporting the thousands of military and civilian employees who serve in our nation’s intelligence agencies. In this capacity, he authored the IC's first-ever Strategic Human Capital Plan and has led the design of a new pay-for-performance system for the Community's civilians; he has also led the development and implementation of the IC's revolutionary civilian "joint duty" program, as well as the integration of its HR information systems. For these and other accomplishments, Dr. Sanders was named the American Society of Public Administration's HR Professional of the Year in 2005, and this year was elected as a Fellow of the prestigious National Academy of Public Administration.
From December 2002 until May 2005, Dr. Sanders served as the Office of Personnel Management's first Associate Director for Strategic HR Policy, where he was responsible for all policies and programs governing the Federal government's almost two million employees. In that capacity, Dr. Sanders led the design and development of the Senior Executive Service's revolutionary new pay-for-performance system, groundbreaking new personnel systems for the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense, and the Bush Administration's landmark civil service reform legislation, the proposed Working for America Act. Awarded the Presidential Rank of Distinguished Executive in 2003 (his third Rank Award in three different agencies), he also received OPM's Theodore Roosevelt Award for Outstanding Public Service, as well as the Department of the Navy's medal for Distinguished Public Service.
From 1998 to 2002, Dr. Sanders served as the Internal Revenue Service's first Chief Human Resource Officer, with HR strategy and policy responsibility for the more than 120,000 employees working for the IRS. In that capacity, Dr. Sanders played a key leadership role in the service's historic restructuring efforts, directing the successful realignment of the agency's workforce from a decades-old geographic structure to one based on taxpayer segments - without any interruption in essential agency operations. In recognition of these achievements, he received a second Presidential Rank Award, as well as three Commissioner's Awards, the highest honor that can be bestowed on an IRS employee.
From 1990 to 1998, Dr. Sanders served as the Department of Defense's Director of Civilian Personnel, with responsibility for HR and equal employment opportunity policies and programs covering the Department's over one million civilian employees. Dr. Sanders led the Department's historic civilian drawdown, pioneering the use of separation incentives in the Federal Government; he also founded the Defense Civilian Personnel Management Service (DCPMS), a first-of-its-kind "shared services" organization providing HR support to DOD agencies and employees worldwide. For his work at Dodd, Dr. Sanders received his first Presidential Rank Award, as well as the Defense Civilian Service Medal. Prior to his DoD appointment, he served in a variety of senior HR positions in the Department of Air Force, including Deputy Director of Civilian Personnel (SES); in that capacity, he received the Air Force's coveted General Robert J. Dixon Award for Leadership, the first and only civilian to be so honored in the thirty-year history of the award.
Dr. Sanders earned his Doctorate in Public Administration (DPA) from the George Washington University in 1990. His undergraduate degree is in business management from the University of South Florida, where he received its 1993 Alumni Award of Merit; he also has a Master of Science Degree in human resource management and industrial relations from the University of Utah, and has been inducted into three national academic honor societies. In 1987, Dr. Sanders attended MIT's Sloan School of Management as a Senior Executive Fellow, and in 1989 he completed a Congressman Fellowship on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.
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