Applying six sigma, industrial engineering and statistics principles and techniques, Mr. Berson has directed study teams in data collection and analysis for many public organizations (large and small) including Federal, State and Local levels of government, as well as other entities. He has reengineered processes, designed performance metrics and determined appropriate staffing to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity for a large variety of levels and functions in countless organizations.  Mr. Berson brings focus on aligning performance requirements to an organization’s mission, vision, and strategic objectives. Some of the clients Mr. Berson has supported include:

• Department of Veterans Affairs
• Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
• Department of Transportation
• Internal Revenue Service / Treasury
• State Department
• Department of Energy (DOE)
• Howard, PG, Frederick County Governments
• DoD - US Army, US Navy, US Marines
• NASA
• NOAA
• US Forest Service
• Health and Human Services (HHS)
• Fish and Wildlife Service
• State of Texas

Mr. Berson is a subject matter expert and instructor in the entire life cycle of procurement – from procurement strategy to solicitation development to contract administration to quality assurance. He also specializes in alternative methods of sourcing (e.g., outsourcing, competitive sourcing, strategic sourcing, shared service agreements, etc.), survey instruments, benchmarking, best practice analysis, cost analysis, etc. Mr. Berson has provided training to hundreds of government personnel.

Some key accomplishments include leading department-wide workforce planning efforts (including demand analysis, supply analysis, guidance, training, etc.) for the Veterans Affairs; directing the development of predictive workforce staffing models for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for almost 10,000 Air Traffic Controllers; leading a business case analysis for the FAA which resulted saving $2 billion, realizing a 1500% ROI.

Mr. Berson has served as a Director and Editor for the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Society of Work Science. He currently serves as Chairman and Newsletter Editor in the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Government Division. Mr. Berson presented “Sustaining Performance Improvement in the Government” at the ASQ World Conference. He authored an article entitled, “Can Transparency Help Government Continuously Improve Performance?,” and authored or contributed to several articles related to performance management and improvement (published in GovExec).

He has conducted program analysis on behalf of the House Committee on Appropriations. Paul’s vision for consulting is to bring real-world application of innovative thought tempered by experience, and to build capacity to continue innovation in each organization he serves.

Paul has supported primarily government clients, but also has provided cost, budget and program analysis services to the World Bank Group, the Global Environment Facility, and several commercial firms. His training, consulting and coaching engagements have taken him throughout the United States and Canada, as well as to the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and East Asia; his primary customers have been mainly Chief Financial Officers, Installation Commanding Officers, Parliamentarians and Members of Congress and their senior staff.

He has frequently presented emerging cost, budget and performance concepts at venues such as the Canadian Association of Management Accountants, the Potomac Forum, the Consortium for Advanced Management-International, the Society for Logistics and similar professional organizations.

Among his many services and accomplishments are three that demonstrate Paul’s dedication to innovation. First, he led a small team that authored the cost recovery methodology becoming most widely used in the US Federal Government today. In the past, Government cost accounting practices set fees and cross-servicing agreements on historical cost, sending organizations’ reimbursable programs into a tailspin and unable to support current needs. Paul’s methodology changed that by focusing on future costs and demands, thus increasing the likelihood that revenues would be there when costs are incurred while still complying with OMB guidance. Second, Paul had the privilege of helping the State and Entity Parliaments in Bosnia-Herzegovina pass convergent Audit Committee legislation; the Republika Serpska assembly chair remarked that this accomplishment constituted the first time the three bodies have been able to achieve convergence in legislation. Finally, Paul designed and provided the quality assurance regime to a nation-wide municipal level effort to implement Activity-Based Costing (ABC) within each municipality in the Republic of Uruguay that allowed the Ministry of Planning to compare performance across the republic.

Paul is also the co-author of “The Closed Loop: Implementing Activity-Based Planning and Budgeting.”