Alan’s work focuses primarily on strategic planning, with an emphasis on helping clients envision how emerging tools and approaches can transform their operations and infuse innovation into their culture. A skilled facilitator, public speaker, and entrepreneur, Alan is a core team member supporting Deloitte’s federal innovation offering. He has published papers on topics ranging from Augmented Reality to re-imagining the US prison system, and has presented at a number of high-profile events around the country.

Before joining Deloitte, Alan worked as a federal lobbyist on behalf of national non-profit organizations in the field of education, where he helped to launch a school improvement services practice that currently supports over a dozen schools across the United States. A San Antonio, Texas native, Alan graduated from Duke University with a B.A. in Psychology in 2005, and a Master’s of Science in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Melon in 2007. He is an alumnus of Deloitte’s GovLab Fellows Program, the Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs, the Education Policy Fellowship Program, and the Funded Founders Institute for Entrepreneurship.

John M. Vanyur, Ph.D. is the owner of John M. Vanyur Consulting Services which provides expertise and training in correctional and detention management. The company’s clients include a number of federal and state government agencies and private sector companies in the correctional arena. Prior to this he was the Senior Director of Federal Customer Relations for Management & Training Corporation (MTC), the third largest private provider of adult detention and prison beds. Before his position at MTC, Dr. Vanyur had a 27 year career with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) where he held a variety of leadership positions. His last position with the BOP was as the Assistant Director of the Correctional Programs Division, overseeing inmate programming, case management, security, intelligence, transportation, community corrections, mental healthcare, and religious services for the largest correctional system in the nation. His also served as the BOP’s Human Resource Director, Warden of the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia, PA, Warden of the Butner, NC correctional institution and Associate Warden of the most secure prison in the U.S. in Florence, Colorado. He holds a doctorate in Psychology from the University of Maryland, is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and is on the Board of Directors of the non-profit Prisoner Visitation and Support. He has published over a dozen articles and book chapters on correctional management and received numerous awards during his government career including the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service and the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service. In 2004, he was named by Corrections Today magazine as one of the “Best in the Business”.