Latest Chief of staff Podcast Episodes
Exploring “The Peaceful Transfer of Power”
Transition Lab - October 14, 2022 13:31 - 47 minutesRachel Klein-Kircher and Loren DeJonge Schulman are joined by three practitioners and experts on presidential transitions who discuss the major challenges the Biden-Harris team had to overcome during the toughest transition in modern U.S. history.
Yamiche Alcindor and David Marchick on a Transition Like No Other
Transition Lab - January 26, 2021 23:32 - 46 minutesOn the final episode of Transition Lab, David Marchick is joined by guest host Yamiche Alcindor, the White House correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and a political contributor for NBC News and MSNBC. As one of America’s leading journalists, Alcindor covered a transition like no other, o...
Yamiche Alcindor and David Marchick on a Transition Like No Other
Transition Lab - January 26, 2021 23:32 - 46 minutesComing soon! Season two of the Partnership for Public Service podcast. This is the last episode on the 2020 transition, but the podcast will return later in the year with a new focus. Stay tuned.
Chris Liddell on Trump's Transition Out Of Office
Transition Lab - January 21, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutesChris Liddell is the Trump administration’s leading transition expert. A deputy chief of staff, he previously served as executive director of the Romney transition team and helped author The Romney Readiness Project, a comprehensive presidential transition guide. In this episode of Transition Lab...
Yohannes Abraham on Leading the Biden Transition
Transition Lab - January 19, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutesIn this episode, host David Marchick spoke with Abraham about leading the Biden-Harris team, the lessons he has learned from previous transitions, and how the country’s health and economic crises have affected his work.
Phil Schiliro and Candi Wolff on the Senate’s Role in a Presidential Transition
Transition Lab - January 04, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutesThis week’s episode of Transition Lab focuses on the Senate confirmation process with Phil Schiliro and Candi Wolff. Wolff, the head of global government affairs at Citi, served as the Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs under President George W. Bush. She was the first woman to h...
The Biden Transition to Power
Transition Lab - December 18, 2020 17:00 - 39 minutesTed Kaufman and President-elect Joe Biden go way back. Kaufman helped organize Biden's first Senate office in 1972 and served as his chief of staff for nearly two decades. Kaufman left the Senate in 1994, but later returned to fill his old boss’s seat after Biden became Barack Obama’s vice presid...
Representative Derek Kilmer on Congressional Modernization and Transitions
Transition Lab - December 07, 2020 07:00 - 34 minutesRepresentative Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) is the chair of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, a bipartisan panel that has produced nearly 100 recommendations focused on improving the way Congress works. During this episode of Transition Lab, Kilmer joined host David Marchick to dis...
State of the Transition: An update with Ken Burns, Josh Bolten and Eric Rauchway
Transition Lab - November 23, 2020 07:00 - 45 minutesHost David Marchick, along with award winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, former George W. Bush chief of staff Josh Bolten, and historian Eric Rauchway, reflects on the current state of the transition, the costs of delay, and how this moment will be remembered. See Privacy Policy at https:...
Melody Barnes on the 2008 transition and what lies ahead for the Biden-Harris team
Transition Lab - November 16, 2020 07:00 - 38 minutesMelody Barnes has had a distinguished political career. She has worked in various roles on Capitol Hill, held senior positions with the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign and transition teams, and led the White House Domestic Policy Council from 2009-2012. Currently, she is the co-director f...
How does the GSA "ascertain" the outcome of an election? An inside look at the GSA, ascertainment and the 2000 election
Transition Lab - November 09, 2020 20:56 - 8 minutesOn this week’s episode of Transition Lab, host David Marchick unpacks the contested 2000 election with David J. Barram, who served as GSA administrator from 1996-2000. Barram discusses the process of ascertainment, his work during the 2000 election and how that contest differed from the 2020 race...
John Podesta on the 2020 Presidential Transition
Transition Lab - November 01, 2020 22:00 - 40 minutesJohn Podesta served as President Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff from 1998 to 2001, founded the Center for American Progress, was the co-chair of Barack Obama’s presidential transition in 2008-2009 and chaired Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016 while overseeing her pre-elec...
An inside look at how the Partnership for Public Service helps build better presidential transitions
Transition Lab - October 26, 2020 09:00 - 39 minutesThis week’s episode of Transition Lab features three leaders from the Partnership for Public Service. One is special guest host Loren DeJonge Schulman, a national security expert who spent 10 years at the Defense Department and National Security Council, most recently as the senior advisor to Nat...
Planning Transitions During Unprecedented Times: A Virtual Conference
Transition Lab - October 19, 2020 06:00 - 53 minutesOn October 2, the Center for Presidential Transition, the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, and several presidential foundations and libraries hosted a virtual conference called “Talking Transitions: Perspectives for First-term and Second-term Administrations.” The event included former gov...
Steve Hadley and Kurt Campbell on National Security Transitions
Transition Lab - October 12, 2020 06:00 - 34 minutesStephen Hadley held key national security positions in three Republican administrations before working on the George W. Bush transition in 2000-2001 and serving as Bush’s national security advisor. Kurt Campbell is an expert on East Asian affairs who served in the Clinton and Obama administration...
Michael Froman on Selecting a President-elect's Cabinet
Transition Lab - October 05, 2020 06:00 - 32 minutesMichael Froman has had an extraordinary career. After serving in the Department of the Treasury under President Clinton, he became the head of personnel for the 2008 Obama-Biden transition team and later served as a White House deputy national security advisor and as the U.S. Trade Representative...
Famed journalist John Dickerson on “The Hardest Job in the World”
Transition Lab - September 28, 2020 06:00 - 29 minutesJohn Dickerson has covered Washington politics for more than two decades as a reporter for Time, Slate Magazine and CBS News. He previously hosted Face the Nation, currently works as a correspondent for 60 Minutes and is the recent author of “The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency,...
The Art of Agency Review During a Presidential Transition
Transition Lab - September 21, 2020 06:30 - 33 minutesAgency review – the process of informing new administrations about the work of the federal government’s various departments – is a critical aspect of presidential transition planning. In this episode of Transition Lab, host David Marchick speaks to Lisa Brown, co-chair of agency review for the 20...
The Best of Transition Lab
Transition Lab - September 14, 2020 06:00 - 53 minutesSince launching in January 2020, Transition Lab has offered a close look at the world of presidential transition planning, featuring in-depth interviews with those who have organized, led and written about some of the most notable transfers of power in U.S. history. In this episode, host David Ma...
Two Transitions Planners Reflect on 2016 Presidential Election
Transition Lab - September 07, 2020 06:00 - 30 minutesMarchick asks Meier and Bagger about how they prepare to lead their respective transition teams.
All-star reporters discuss covering presidential transitions
Transition Lab - August 30, 2020 19:30 - 35 minutesNancy Cook and Andrew Restuccia know all about presidential transitions. They currently write about transition planning and presidential politics for Politico and the Wall Street Journal, respectively, and previously collaborated on several transition stories during the 2016 election. In this Tra...
Key Transition Lessons from Two Former White House Chiefs of Staff
Transition Lab - August 24, 2020 13:35 - 41 minutesJosh Bolten and Denis McDonough discuss how they helped orchestrate successful transfers of power, fostered bipartisanship during those difficult times and helped set the standard for successful transitions today.
Intelligence Briefings During Presidential Transitions
Transition Lab - August 17, 2020 06:30 - 37 minutesDavid Marchick joined former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell for a wide-ranging discussion about intelligence-sharing during presidential elections and transitions, foreign interference during presidential elections, and how the 2020 candidates can build strong relationships with the intellige...
Preparing the government for a presidential transition
Transition Lab - August 10, 2020 06:00 - 24 minutesMary Gibert has one of the most important jobs in Washington today, preparing the federal government for a possible presidential transition. As the federal transition coordinator at the General Services Administration, Gibert and her team are working closely with the White House, the campaign of ...
Planning Presidential Conventions
Transition Lab - August 03, 2020 06:00 - 34 minutesPresidential nominating conventions are major moments for any campaign. Reverend Leah Daughtry and Maria Cino served as the CEO's of Democratic and Republican conventions, respectively. They join host David Marchick on Transition Lab to discuss the role of conventions in political camp...
Planning Presidential Conventions
Transition Lab - August 03, 2020 06:00 - 34 minutesRev. Leah Daughtry and Maria Cino discuss the role of conventions in political campaigns, whether they give a boost to the candidates, and how the COVID-19 pandemic will change conventions this year and in the future.
Breaking into a Male-Dominated National Security Arena
Transition Lab - July 27, 2020 06:00 - 40 minutesJamie Jones Miller and Nina Hachigian talk with host David Marchick about their careers in government, how they handled uncomfortable situations and the importance of bringing more women into leadership positions.
Chris Christie on Trump’s Transition to Power
Transition Lab - July 19, 2020 14:26 - 39 minutesFormer New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie explains how he planned the Trump transition and where it went wrong.
Chris Christie on Trump’s Transition to Power
Transition Lab - July 19, 2020 14:26 - 39 minutesDonald Trump‘s 2016-17 presidential transition was famously bumpy in part because the president-elect made a change in transition leadership only days after the election. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was chairman of the Trump transition team from May 2016 until shortly after E...
Help Wanted: The Critical Job of Selecting 4,000 Presidential Appointees
Transition Lab - July 13, 2020 06:00 - 44 minutesJonathan McBride and Liza Wright, former directors of the PPO under Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush share their advice on how to land a political appointment.
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