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A Trusted Advisor for Public-Sector Leaders.
Helping Organizations Adapt and Endure.

Clear direction. A sound path to completion. An approach that meets the moment.

Start with a free 20-minute consultation. Tell me what you are facing,
and I will let you know whether I can help and what the next step would be.

Joe Karkoski, founder of GovGuru.

Joe Karkoski

EXPERIENCE AT PUBLIC SCALE

35+ years

U.S. EPA and the California Water Boards

325+ staff

Led across complex public programs

55+ programs

Funding, governance, and delivery at scale

$10B+

Moved over five years

TWO WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER

Support scaled to the decision in front of you.

The work starts with the real situation, not a generic playbook. Executive Advisory is advice to the executive carrying the decision. Project Advisory is support to the organization solving a defined problem. Both serve leaders of public agencies, nonprofits, and associations.

Work through a decision with a senior advisor.

Discreet advisory support for senior public-sector leaders facing consequential decisions, competing obligations, and stakeholder pressure.  

  • Focused Engagement: a defined start on one decision, ending in a written summary and agreed next steps

  • Longer Engagement: continued advice when the work runs past a single decision

  • Scope agreed before the work begins

Move a difficult public project forward.

Senior executive support for organizational change, strategy, governance, program delivery, and water-sector finance as a specialization.

  • Clarify the governing constraint

  • Make tradeoffs visible and who decides clear

  • Build an operating response that can last

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

“What consistently stood out was his judgment under pressure.”

Felicia Marcus, former Chair, State Water Resources Control Board

Bring the situation.
We will decide whether there is a useful next step.

START WITH FIT

Submit a brief, non-sensitive intake.

I review it before providing a scheduling link for a free 20-minute consultation.

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