The Federal Executive Institute (FEI) is/was an executive and management development and training center for governmental leaders located on a 14-acre campus near the center of Charlottesville, Virginia. Image: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
By: FEDweek StaffPresident Trump has ordered the closing of the Federal Executive Institute, for decades the government’s flagship leadership development program for those in the SES and those in the upper GS levels.
The FEI “is a government program purportedly designed to provide leadership training to bureaucrats. But bureaucratic leadership over the past half-century has led to federal policies that enlarge and entrench the Washington, D.C., managerial class, a development that has not benefited the American family,” says an executive order.
Says an accompanying fact sheet, “Eliminating the Federal Executive Institute is part of President Trump’s broader mission to reform the federal bureaucracy, including by ending ineffective government programs that drain resources and empower government without achieving measurable results.”
OPM meanwhile posted on X: “It’s time the federal workforce worked for America’s taxpayers!”
That is a very different message than that of the FEI page on OPM’s site, which touts the FEI in these terms: “We believe great leaders can transform and improve government to best serve the American people. Whether you are an aspiring leader, new supervisor, or seasoned executive, our career-spanning, multilevel leadership curriculum guides you through development and career growth – for your current role or the one you aspire to.”
Those programs have included skill-building and leadership development courses both online and onsite at a facility in Charlottesville, Va., in which more than 30,000 federal employees have participated, the site says.
Among the criticisms of the FEI in the fact sheet is that the Charlottesville facility “was formerly a luxury hotel.”
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