Jay Fadgen is an executive consultant with the Federal Quality Consulting Group (FQCG), on assignment from the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). He collaborates with government executives to adapt and change organization cultures and systems to succeed in the face of new demands of customer driven government. Jay uses the principles of the President's Award for Quality, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, and the recommendations of the Vice President's National Performance Review when he customizes and leads seminars and consults with government leaders.
Jay has extensive and varied experience in leading large and high impact organizations during a period of rapid change and has provided transformational leadership to the several groups placed under his charge during his twenty-five years of government service over half of which has been as a member of the senior executive service. In the 1980's he led the contracts and acquisition organization of the Joint Cruise Missiles Project as it transformed itself from leading a research, development and test effort to executing a highly successful and innovative production and deployment program. Jay also led the design and implementation of the integration of the Project into NAVAIR in 1986.
More recently, Jay has chaired several Quality Management Boards and has been a member of many ad hoc executive review teams in support of NAVAIR as it has transformed itself over the last several years into an Integrated Product Team/Competency Aligned Organization. He was one of the principle leaders of the Command guiding and shaping the value shift of a critical segment of the organization as the transformation was underway in the early to mid nineties. NAVAIR received confirmation of the rightness of its reinvention path by being awarded the prestigious President's Quality award---twice.
Jay has received the Navy Superior Civilian Service Award and numerous performance awards. He has an M.A. from Duquesne University, did doctoral work at the University of Pittsburgh, and has completed numerous courses in executive leadership and organizational change at the Darden School, University of Virginia and at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University. Jay enjoys gardening, carpentry and astronomy. He lives in Falls Church, Virginia with his wife Sharon. They have three children, Justin, Lisa, and John.