2025 Leadership Summit Keynote Moderators

Tom Temin

Tom Temin has 46 years of journalism experience.

For the past three decades, he has worked in the federal government market. For the past 16 years Tom has hosted the Federal Drive with Tom Temin, weekday mornings on Federal News Network 1500 AM. The show covers federal information technology, management, oversight, legislation and professional concerns of the federal workforce. Guests regularly include federal executives, members of Congress, think tank experts and attorneys specializing in federal acquisition, cybersecurity and federal labor issues. Podcasts of Federal Drive broadcast interviews garner some 50,000 downloads per month.

Tom also writes a weekly column for Federal News Network covering a range of IT and management topics.

Each year, Tom organizes and stages a Motorcycle Ride for Charity under FNN’s auspices. It makes contributions to the Federal Employees Education and Assistance Fund (FEEA), Friends of Patients at the NIH, and the U.S. War Dogs Association.

Earlier, Tom was the editor-in-chief of Government Computer News for 15 years, then the most-read and highest revenue business-to-business publication in the market. It won several Jesse H Neal awards from the American Business Media (ABM) editorial program.

After the Washington Post Company acquired GCN, Tom became executive vice president, editorial, at the newly formed PostNewsweek Tech Media Group. There he oversaw the content of GCN, Washington Technology – also a Jesse H Neal award winner – and several other properties.

Throughout his career, Tom has been a speaker and moderator at events staged by groups such as AFCEA, the Association for Federal IRM (AFFIRM) and ACTIAC. He also has made regular, paid appearances for sales and executive groups of federal contractors.

Before coming to the Washington, D.C., area, Tom spent 17 years with Cahners Publishing Company, editing magazines in the industrial supply, electronics and systems integration industries. He also worked in weekly and daily newspapers in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

Tom has a bachelor’s degree in photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He completed the Stanford Professional Publishing Program. As an employee of Federal News Network, he’s also a member of the SAG-AFTRA union.

In his private life, Tom is devoted to his wife of 40 years, two grown children and four grandchildren; playing the piano; and riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle.

Christine Porath

Christine Porath is a professor at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on how to help people and communities thrive.

Her speaking and consulting clients include Google, United Nations, Microsoft, World Bank, World Health Organization, International Monetary Fund, National Institute of Health, Cleveland Clinic, Southwest, MD Anderson, Department of Labor, Department of the Treasury, and Department of Justice.

Christine is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. She has taught in various Executive programs at Harvard, Georgetown, and the University of Southern California (USC). Porath is author of Mastering Community, and Mastering Civility and co-author of The Cost of Bad Behavior.

Before getting her Ph.D., she worked for International Management Group (IMG), a leading sports management and marketing firm. Porath received her Ph.D. from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned her bachelor's degree in economics from College of the Holy Cross where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa as well as the women’s basketball and soccer teams.

Lauren Anstey

Lauren leads the Public Service Leadership Institute, collaborates across teams to ensure public service leadership is a guiding model throughout the organization’s work, and serves on the Management Team. Through her experience at Goldman Sachs and Skadden Arps and her studies at Williams College and Harvard Law School, Lauren brings a broad range of experience across fields. Her passion for bridging strategy and implementation – and belief that good leadership is at the center of creating positive change – has been the thread throughout her career. Lauren has a deep appreciation for leadership education and training, having taught a course on leadership at Williams College. Her favorite public servant is Abraham Lincoln, whose profound words and actions continue to inspire her to serve and strengthen our democracy.