Doug Austin, President and CEO of UPD Consulting, has over 25 years experience in both the public and private sectors, and he is an expert in performance management, organizational design, and transformation processes stemming from his senior and executive leadership roles in Baltimore, MD and Oakland, CA. His engagements have included large-scale management reform projects for the public school districts of Detroit, Miami-Dade, Baltimore, Washington, Dallas, and Sarasota, among others. Doug served as Chief of Staff for the Baltimore City Public Schools from 2005 to 2006, a school district with 86,000 students and 11,000 employees. He holds a BA in Politics from Princeton University and a Master of Public Policy from UC-Berkeley.