Consulting firm hired to aid in search for new senior executive

The Great Lakes Commission has contracted with Public Sector Consultants, a Lansing, Mich.-based policy research and analysis company, to conduct an organizational assessment of the Commission in preparation for hiring a new executive director.

The assessment will examine the organization’s role in Great Lakes policy and management, consider its strengths, project future challenges, and identify ways to position itself in the evolving framework of Great Lakes institutions. The company will also offer recommendations for the completion of the Commission’s updated strategic plan.

A key component of the process will be consultations with Commissioners, Commission staff, stakeholders and representatives of U.S. and Canadian federal, state and provincial agencies, research institutions and other entities with responsibilities and interests in the management and/or protection of the Great Lakes ecosystem.

The company will submit its draft report by Aug. 31, 2005.

The Commission’s longtime senior executive, Mike Donahue, departed in February 2005 to take a position in the private sector after nearly two decades of service to the Great Lakes Commission.