Map Your Strategic Plan with the Budget

In the public sector, a strategic plan is a critical tool that aims to help move communities forward—but strategic action often falls flat. Aligning financial resources with an organization's strategic goals is crucial for turning the strategic plan into impactful results.

Join Government Technology and Euna Solutions for a live webinar where a panel of experts will explore why actioning strategic goals is so challenging for many organizations. We'll discuss common struggles such as integrating plans into the budget, community disconnect from strategic planning, managing stakeholder expectations and alignment, interdepartmental collaboration, and more before diving into what tools and capabilities can help tackle those challenges.

What We'll Cover:

Methods for seamlessly connecting your agency's strategic plans with its budget
How to maximize the impact of every dollar and propel your organization's vision forward
Enhancing budget collaboration and transparency, leading to smarter decisions and a unified approach that cultivates lasting public trust

Speaker and Presenter Information

Abhi Nemani

Senior Vice President of Product Strategy, Euna Solutions

Abhi Nemani is a government technology entrepreneur, scholar, and public servant — founding, building, and leading many GovTech institutions over the last 15 years including Code for America, EthosLabs, Sacramento's Innovation & Growth Fund, and the Mayor of Los Angeles’ Office of Data. As Senior Vice President of Product Strategy at Euna Solutions, Abhi supports the growth of Euna's portfolio of public administration and financial products to better serve its growing network of 2,000+ public sector organizations across North America. Previously, Abhi served as the Inaugural Chief Data Officer for City of Los Angeles and the Chief Innovation Officer for Sacramento, and he has lectured on government technology at the University of Chicago and the World Bank and is a Visiting Scholar at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government.

Jeff Goldstein

Senior Director, Business Product Manager-Budgets

Jeff Goldstein is a Senior Director, Business Product Manager-Budgets for Euna Solutions. He has over twenty years of Budgeting, Planning, Forecasting, and Financial Management experience in both the public and private sector. Jeff has a Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Delaware and a Masters in Business degree from Nova Southeastern University. Jeff, his wife Silvia, three children, and two faithful dogs reside in Boynton Beach, Florida, but his heart will always be in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he is originally from.

Justin Marlowe — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Justin Marlowe is a research professor at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. His research and teaching are focused on public finance, and he has published five books — including the first open-access textbook on public financial management — and more than 100 articles on public capital markets, infrastructure finance, financial disclosure, public financial technology, and public-private partnerships. He is an admitted expert witness in federal and state courts, and has served on technical advisory bodies for the state of Washington, the California State Auditor, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, the National Academy of Sciences, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and many other public, private and nonprofit organizations. Prior to academia, he worked in local government in Michigan. He is a Certified Government Financial Manager and an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and he holds a Ph.D. in political science and public administration from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.