[January 18, 2017]

PCG's Jill Reynolds Named 2017 Eisenhower Fellow

Public Consulting Group Inc., a leading provider of management-consulting services to public-sector education, health, and human services clients, is honored to announce that Jill Reynolds, who leads PCG's Aging and Disability Services Center of Excellence, has been named one of 20 Eisenhower USA Fellows for 2017.

Since its establishment in 1953 as an international-leader exchange to honor President Dwight D. Eisenhower's commitment to world peace, Eisenhower Fellowships has nurtured a global network of nearly 1,500 active Fellows who are innovative leaders in a broad range of fields. Eisenhower USA Fellows are awarded a five-week international travel and study program to develop their professional growth and deepen their lifelong commitment to EF's mission of "creating a world more peaceful, prosperous, and just.''

Ms. Reynolds will use her Eisenhower USA Fellowship to study how Japan and Peru have worked to increase the involvement of people with disabilities in the labor force and what policymakers in the U.S. and globally can learn from those countries' successes and challenges, including concrete practices and policies to emulate.

"It is an economic imperative at the macro level for the United States to achieve greater levels of employment for people with disabilities," Ms. Reynolds said. "At the same time, it is an economic imperative at the micro level for people with disabilities to be employed as the only viable way out of poverty and toward a life of real choices and integration."

Bill Mosakowski Founder, President, and CEO of PCG, said: "All of us at PCG are honored and thrilled to see Jill win this prestigious honor and opportunity to help more of our family, friends, and neighbors living with disabilities successfully connect with jobs and opportunity. We're proud to be a company whose professional consulting staff is full of nationally and internationally recognized and admired experts in their fields, like Jill, and a company committed for 30 years to giving back to the communities we serve, including through participation in high-impact initiatives like Eisenhower Fellowships."

As leader of PCG's Aging and Disability Services Center of Excellence, Ms. Reynolds provides strategic leadership and support for improved outcomes and fiscal performance in human-services programs including: vocational rehabilitation, home and community services, welfare to work, workforce development, early intervention, early childhood and child care services, and food and nutrition programs.

Prior to joining PCG, Ms. Reynolds was Deputy Education Advisor to the Governor of Massachusetts. In this role, she worked on early education, K-12 education, and higher education policy, legislation, regulation, and finance. Previously she worked for the Massachusetts Executive Office for Administration and Finance, responsible for budget oversight and analysis for education and other areas.

A graduate of Boston College, Ms. Reynolds holds a Master's in Public Administration from the University of Massachusetts.

About the Eisenhower Fellowships program

Founded in 1953 and based in Philadelphia, Eisenhower Fellowships identifies, empowers and connects innovative leaders through a transformative fellowship experience and lifelong engagement in a global network of dynamic change agents committed to creating a world more peaceful, prosperous and just. Successful candidates for EF programs are exceptional leaders eager to advance their personal and professional growth, who can articulate how the fellowship will serve them to produce impactful change and who commit to lifelong engagement with the organization and its nearly 1,500 active Fellows around the world. Fellows apply what they learn from their peers and in their meetings with experts in their respective fields to maximize their potential and produce sustained impact through their fellowship experience and collaboration within the EF global network.

About Public Consulting Group

Public Consulting Group, Inc. (PCG) provides management consulting services to public-sector education, health, and human services clients and other state and municipal government clients. Established in 1986 with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, PCG operates from 44 offices around the U.S., in Montreal, London, and in Warsaw and Lodz, Poland. The firm has extensive experience in all 50 states, clients in four Canadian provinces, and a growing practice in the European Union. To learn more, visit www.publicconsultinggroup.com.

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