Daniel R. Kowalski has developed and presented classes for federal Human Resources practitioners and managers in a variety of topics: basic and advance staffing, workforce planning, strategic alignment of human capital, internal HR consulting, job analysis and assessment, HR analytics, and supervisory training. He had 33 years of HR experience in the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration (VHA). He was a line manager for 21 of those years, leading the HR staff in organizations that ranged in size from 1800 to 3000 employees. For 6 years, he served as a national internal consultant in the VHA Human Resources Management Group, a virtual self-managed team that provided HR support and consulting services to the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health in Washington and in VHA’s 21 networks of medical centers. He served on VA’s national labor management partnership council and on the national employee satisfaction survey committee.