Jeffrey Neal — Senior Vice President at ICF

Mr. Jeff Neal has been Senior Vice President at ICF International Inc since September 2011. Mr. Neal served as Chief Human Capital Officer at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He focuses on retaining and developing DHS's current highly-skilled workforce and ensuring that DHS is able to recruit the additional talent necessary to achieve its mission. He served as Chief Human Capital Officer at the 23,000-employee Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), the U.S. Department of Defense's largest logistics combat support agency, since 2000. At DLA, Mr. Neal identified more than $50 million in administrative and operational savings--a transformation that was cited by the Partnership for Public Service as a model for other federal agencies. He has more than 30 years of experience as a human resources (HR) practitioner and executive. He also created the Enterprise Leader Development Program to address the critical leadership skills required in today's workplace and developed a highly successful agency-wide survey to meet current challenges. He served as Personnel Officer and Director of headquarters complex operations for the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency Administrative Support Center. Previously, Mr. Neal was Deputy Director of Human Resources at the U.S. Department of Commerce from 1998 to 2000, where he replaced multiple staffing systems with a single online system--resulting in improved position fill time, accuracy and accountability. Prior to working at the Department of Commerce, Mr. Neal served as Director of Headquarters Complex Operations at DLA from 1997 to 1998 and worked as a personnel officer at DLA and the U.S. General Services Administration from 1993 to 1997. He holds a B.A. from Concord College.