Lisa Hershman
Lisa W. Hershman is an American government official serving as the Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense since December 19, 2019. She previously served as the Deputy Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense from April 13, 2018 to December 19, 2019. On December 1, 2018, she became the Acting Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense following the resignation of John H. Gibson. On July 22, 2019, Hershman was nominated for the position of Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense. On December 19, 2019, this nomination was approved by a voice vote of the U.S. Senate.
Hershman regularly contributed to BusinessWeek and is the co-author of Faster, Cheaper, Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done which she finished writing after the death of its original author, Michael Hammer, in 2008. Before joining the Defense Department in April 2018, she was the CEO of the DeNovo Group and former CEO of Hammer and Co. Hershman previously worked for Avnet, Inc. as the Corporate Senior Vice President of Operational Excellence. She holds a degree in engineering and industrial distribution from Clarkson University.
