John Hart

A recognized expert on leadership, John helps leaders and institutions develop capacity for improved performance. As a seasoned coach, facilitator and program designer, he has worked with senior level executives and executive teams at the highest levels of public organizations.

Known for establishing trusted advisory relationships, John applies his diverse experience and senior consulting expertise to achieve breakthrough, long-term results. Clients consistently credit John with providing keen insights into their individual motivation and group and organizational dynamics, as well as enhancing the depth and breadth of their thinking and decision-making.

A broad range of public organization clients, including the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, World Bank, National Institutes of Health, and the heads of federal agencies and senior Executive Branch leaders and staff of the United States Government, engaged John to facilitate strategic and team building sessions and provide executive coaching with senior executives and their teams to build individual leadership capacity, strengthen inter-personal relationships and enhance their organizational performance.

John was the Project Manager for the Presidential Appointee Leadership Program. The program featured a White House-Cabinet Retreat for the President, Vice President, all 22 Cabinet-rank officials, and senior White House staff. Additionally, John has facilitated chief executive level strategic programs for the President’s Management Council, the U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Small Business Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Office of the First Lady.

In addition to founding Impact Center, John served as the COO of Safe Kids Worldwide, a division of Children’s National Hospital. He advanced bi-partisan solutions to education as Director of Policy Implementation for the James B. Hunt Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Before joining the Hunt Institute, John served as Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Government Affairs for Ovations, a division of United Health Group, focusing on improving public, private and nonprofit sector partnerships in health care.

During the Clinton Administration, John served for four years as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. Under Attorney General Janet Reno, John was appointed as Principal Deputy Director at the United States Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS). While at the Department of Justice, John traveled to Belfast to accelerate the reconciliation process in support of the Good Friday Peace Agreement.

An attorney by training, John practiced law in Washington, D.C. and served as Law Clerk to the Honorable James T. Turner of the United States Court of Federal Claims. He is a graduate of the Catholic University of America and Fordham University School of Law and the father of two daughters.