CSM Staff

CSM Staff

Executive Director:
Dr. Thomas McWeeney

Dr. Thomas McWeeney is the Executive Director and Owner of the Center for Strategic Management (CSM), a small business consulting firm that assists public sector organizations by providing advice, a wide array of consulting services, and training to executives seeking to establish clear strategic direction and organizational transformation.

Consulting Services

Since 1995, Dr. McWeeney has served as the principle consultant to key executives in federal law enforcement agencies. In these efforts, he has led comprehensive projects designed to provide new direction, structured implementation, and organizational transformation to agencies facing challenges from changing external threats and diminishing internal capacity. During this time, CSM has provided strategic management consulting services to more than 40 federal agencies; however, during the past six years, Dr. McWeeney has focused his personal attention on directing major projects affecting the strategic direction, the operational performance, and management infrastructure on behalf of:

The Deputy Director, Executive Assistant Director for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence, and the Assistant Director for Counterintelligence of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI);

The Deputy Director, Executive Assistant Director for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence, and the Assistant Director for Counterintelligence of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI);

The Director and Deputy Directors of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS);

The National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX);

United States Attorneys from the Western District of Washington, the Eastern District of Missouri, and the Southern District of Illinois;

Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA);

The Assistant Commissioner of the U.S. Customs Service;

The Director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC);

The Director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Program in the Department of Justice;

The Director of Court Services and Offender Supervision Administration.

Of particular note has been the intensive application of CSM methods to the national security efforts of the FBI, the NCIX, and the NCIS. Dr. McWeeney has worked in close collaboration with the executives of these organizations to produce candid assessments of their strategic situation and their capabilities, a strong, compelling strategic direction, a structured implementation plan, and has personally overseen the development of pilot programs and other implementation initiatives. Among the accomplishments associated with these activities are the following:

Developed and directed counterintelligence demonstration projects for the FBI to accelerate the implementation of FBI CI strategy in selected FBI field offices (Client: FBI CI program)

Developed and directed the implementation of the counterintelligence Business Alliance between the FBI and select private companies to pilot the innovative approaches to the FBI’s counterintelligence program. (Client: FBI);

Facilitated the development and implementation of a joint FBI/NCIS counterintelligence task force program designed to protect select U.S. critical national assets (Client: FBI/NCIS);

Designed, developed, and led the first integrated law enforcement information sharing initiative that integrates investigative records from federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies (Client: FBI, NCIS, OCDETF, U.S. Attorney).

Dr. McWeeney’s work, particularly with the FBI and NCIS, has resulted in acquiring substantial practical expertise in planning and developing proactive law enforcement, intelligence, and security programs and efforts related to Homeland Security. He has personally directed the development of strategic assessments for each of his clients and has confronted most of the issues that have been identified as constraints on performance for these agencies. During this period, CSM has had the good fortune to acquire a highly experienced staff and an extended network of contract professionals – each of unquestioned expertise --that has been able to provide practical approaches that are highly valued by clients.

In each of these efforts, Dr. McWeeney and the CSM team have sought to differentiate CSM’s efforts from the traditional consulting approaches by linking the objectives of the consulting project to the organizational objectives. Success for CSM is not found in the document, or even the completed project, but rather in the organizational transformation and the operational results it generates.

Training

In 1994, Dr. McWeeney was named Program Director of Central Michigan University’s Center for Performance Management. Over the next 5 years, he conducted over 125 performance-related training seminars, attended by more than 4,500 federal employees from over 75 different agencies. He has also participated in training activities for the U.S. House of Representatives, the Capitol Police, and dozens of federal agencies and private organizations that have requested on-site training. Dr. McWeeney has served as an affiliate of the GPRA Consortium of the National Academy of Public Administration, has served on the Editorial Board of The Public Manager. He has worked closely with high-ranking officials from OMB, GAO, Congressional Oversight Committees, NAPA, and others in the public administration community of Washington, D.C. to ensure the maximum relevance and credibility of CSM’s work product. Dr. McWeeney has sought to keep CSM current on all new directives and mandates addressing program management initiatives in federal programs such as the Presidential Management Agenda.

Dr. McWeeney has served for 15 years as an Associate Graduate Faculty member with Central Michigan University, teaching graduate courses in Public Policy, Strategic Planning, Program Evaluation, Budget and Finance, Intergovernmental and International Relations, and Social Science Research Methods.

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Dr. McWeeney received his Ph.D. with distinction from Georgetown University in 1982. He is a political scientist, strategic planner and management consultant with more than 35 years of experience in designing and facilitating the implementation of strategic planning and strategic management systems for the Federal Government. Dr. McWeeney was employed for nearly 20 years by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of the U.S. Department of Justice. During this time he served as Budget Officer, Assistant Controller, and Manager of DEA’s strategic planning, evaluation, and management analysis programs. In these positions he designed and facilitated the implementation of many innovative programs for the agency. He has authored and coauthored articles for Performance Management and Health Care Reform publications.