City Manager JJ Murphy of Hobbs, New Mexico returned from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Senior Executives in State and Local Government program in 2013 with a renewed commitment to dynamic but sound community management. “I came back from this experience knowing that to move our community forward, I had to invest more time in some critical areas both internal and external to the organization. Internally, I committed to the professional development/training of our employees and empowered them to develop solutions to insure our organization was high performing. Externally, I doubled my efforts on stakeholder inclusiveness and actively engaged our citizens on many issues. These strategies produced significant results.”
The rejuvenation experienced by City Manager JJ Murphy of Hobbs, New Mexico during his attendance at the 2013 Harvard Kennedy School and Senior Executive Program for State and Local officials was transformational. When he returned from this experience he utilized some of the experiences his classmates shared in helping move the Rockwind Community Links and the recreational center projects from concept to reality. Murphy followed his enormously inspiring instruction in 2013 at the Harvard Kennedy School with recent attendance at their “Leadership for the 21st Century” course in 2017. Murphy worked with 72 different executives from 25 countries, adding to his knowledge of adaptive solutions to complex problems exponentially.
Also read: JJ Murphy of Hobbs, New Mexico Honored Member of International City/County Management Association
Hobbs, New Mexico has enjoyed its own transformation under the Hobbs City Commission and City Manager JJ Murphy. Together they are committed to excellence and dedicated to servant leadership. Murphy comes to his work with renewed purpose each day, and is actively involved with his employees to provide the finest in professional development and improvement for each one. His tenure in Hobbs has been enormously successful in many respects.
