VEI Leadership Challenge Presentations

A key feature of the VEI is the opportunity to discuss and address real issues being encountered by state government. As part of the VEI experience, each participant works in a small group on a critical problem facing the commonwealth. This project provides an opportunity to practice using tools and techniques featured at VEI while proposing a solution to a critical leadership challenge. 

Select a leadership challenge project below to view the presentation to the governor’s office by former VEI graduates.

Spring 2024

• Developing Consistency for Conflict Resolution in the Workplace
• Living the Dream: The Struggle to Find an Affordable Home
• Feasible or Unreasonable? The Four-Day Work Week
• Virginia Flex: Transforming Virginia's Work Paradigm to Improve Organizational C
• Service Beyond the Desk: Embracing Volunteerism to Support our Communities and I
  • Topics and Descriptions: VEI Leadership Challenges - Final Topics Spring 2024

Fall 2023

• A Virginia Crisis: The Fight Against Fentanyl
• With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: The Retention Tension
• Navigating AI Adoption in Government for the Commonwealth
• Virginia State Employee Mental Health and Well-Being: The Role of Leadership
• Public Sector Digital Transformation
  • Topics and Descriptions: VEI Fall 2023 Leadership Challenge Group Topics and Descriptions

Spring 2023

• Creating a Welcoming Workplace for Generation Z
• Community Connections-Investing in Public Schools
• Transforming Virginia’s Public Sector Employee Retention Model
• Access to Mental Health Support for State Employees
• Exploring Employee Choice for Receiving Total Compensation

Summer 2021

• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Developing Diverse Leaders
• Changing Spaces, Changing Workplaces
• A Tool for the Objective Classification of Telework for State Government
• Developing Community Engagement Partnerships: Utilizing the Commonwealth’s Great
• Opening Public Service Jobs to the Public: Removing Barriers to Entry

Fall 2019

• Access to Services in Rural Southwest Virginia: A Transportation Issue
• Ransomware: Not If, but When?
• Transitioning to Electric Vehicles (EVs) in the State Auto Fleet
• Strategy to Reduce Health Care Cost by Expanding Offender Release Policies
• Human Resources: There They Go, Now What?

Spring 2019

• A New Perspective on Expanding Broadband Access to Rural VA
• Responding to the Increasing Threats of Heat Related Illness
• Ethical Questions to Consider When Preparing to Share Data
• Navigating Cultural Differences and Its Impact on the Virginia Workforce
• Extreme Risk Protective Orders

Fall 2018

• Automation (Artificial) Intelligence
• Options for Addressing Revenue Shortfalls from Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
• Workforce Development Alternatives to Incarceration
• Prioritizing Early Childhood Education in Opioid Impacted Families
• The Lure of E-Cigarettes and the Impact on the Health of Virginia's Youth

Spring 2018

• A Place to Call Home
• Disparities in K-12 Education
• Eco Growth Security in Schools
• Improving Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety for the Citizens
• Legalization of Marijuana
• Net Neutrality

Fall 2017

• Mental Health Care
• Safer Public Housing
• Living Wage
• Food Desert
• Decreasing Partisanship

Spring 2017

• 400 Year American Evolution
• An Approach for State and Local Partnerships
• Increasing the Number of Minorities in State Government
• Juvenile Education
• Redistricting
• Wallops Island

Fall 2016

• ASSIMILATING A DIVERSE COMMONWEALTH
• IMPROVING MENTAL HEALTH CARE FOR THE CITIZENS OF THE COMMONWEALTH
• DECISION MAKING THE ENVIRONMENT VS. BUSINESS INTERESTS
• Geographic InequalityHUMAN TRAFFICKING
• Foreign Trade and InvestmentPREVENTING ANOTHER FLINT
• General Fund VS. Non-General Fund AgenciesSTATE BENEFITS

Spring 2016

• Restoring Public Trust‌
• Increase in Heroin and Methamphetamine Use‌
• The Most Important Liquid Water‌
• Geographic Inequality
• Foreign Trade and Investment
• General Fund VS. Non-General Fund Agencies

Fall 2015

• Mass Incarceration
• Credentialing
• The Next Generation
• Open for Business
• Degree Completion in Higher Education

Spring 2015

• The 2015 UCI Road World Championships
• Recruiting & Hiring the Next Generation of State Employees
• The Next Generation: How to Retain Millennials
• Efficient and Effective Delivery of State Services: A 21st Century Overview
• The Value of a College Education: How Should the Success of Higher Education be Measured?
• Supporting a Healthy Workforce