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About The Author
Scot Wrighton
A native of Chicago, Scot Wrighton’s career is dedicated to resourceful public management, organizational development, and more effective governance. He is the managing principal of a specialized consulting firm called the Good Governing Group, LLC (www.ggoverning.com)
He served as a city manager in Illinois from 2015 until his retirement in 2024.
From 2009 to 2015 he was the city manager of Lavasa, Maharashtra, India—a private city constructed west of Pune, and originally conceived as a model for how new urban areas could be created and governed in South Asia as a response to the rapid urbanization of India.
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From 2003 to 2009 he served on the faculty of the University of Georgia, in Athens, Georgia, USA where he taught leadership development, soft skills, strategic planning, performance management, outcomes measurement and teamwork. He used these skills to train the India-based Lavasa management team, and develop soft-skills and public administration training programs at CEPT University (Gujarat).
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in History and Government from Sterling College, in Sterling, Kansas; a Master’s degree in History from the University of Hawaii; a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Kansas; and several professional training certifications. He has worked in the field of local government management for more than 40 years, in Kansas, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, and the Republic of India-30 of these years as a CEO/city manager.
Scot’s consulting specialties include supervisory and leadership training focused on soft-skills, strategic planning, organizational development, executive coaching, designing and implementing governance and structural change, teaching organizational ethics strategies, and performance management and measurement. He deploys active learning methods and the use of emotional intelligence assessments. He is an interactive instructor who engages learners in the learning.
Scot has published numerous articles, a book on the US Constitution, edited and contributed to a book on effective supervisory skills, and contributed to other works; most relate to the management, governance and sustainable development of local governments, and capacity building in organizational leadership teams.
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Scot Wrighton
Scot Wrighton is a retired professional government manager and governance consultant. In addition to serving various local governments as a manager for three decades, he has served on the faculty of the University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government, and he has worked internationally to advance good governance principles and techniques as a consultant, instructor, and project manager. His publications include: Article Five: Repairing American Government Amid Debilitating Partisan Strife.