Judy Plante has been a successful facilitator, organizational development consultant, teacher, and advisor to managers and executives in the public and nonprofit arenas for over 30 years.
She is a former Assistant Commissioner for Human Resources and Employee Benefits for the State of Minnesota, responsible for the systems and policies supporting Minnesota’s 35,000 employees. Prior to that, Judy served as Senior Consultant, and then Director, of the Management Analysis and Development Division (MAD), which offers consulting services to all Minnesota public sector entities. Her work at MAD included leading multi-agency and cross-jurisdictional efforts to address difficult and long-standing societal problems, identifying and launching Results-Based Accountability™ (also known as RBA), a shared measurement framework for all state government cabinet agencies, creation of the State’s Emerging Leaders Institute (ELI), and providing transition office turnkey operations for incoming Governors.
Judy has logged thousands of facilitation hours, designing highly effective events to help groups large and small resolve their issues, design programs, plan their future actions, prepare for anticipated changes and respond to the unanticipated. She has also trained hundreds of state and county employees on the RBA framework, as well as leadership and supervisory skills. She is a highly valued coach, mentor, and advisor to senior leaders.
Judy’s subject-matter expertise and facilitation skills have supported successful strategic planning and organizational change efforts at the State of Minnesota for many years. She knows her stuff. More importantly, she knows how to draw out of her clients the strategies that will work for them.
Cathy de Moll
Former Assistant Commissioner, Minnesota IT Services (MNIT)