Imagine That Performance Announces Interim City Manager Agreement with City of Temple Terrace

Local government consulting firm to also provide a Leadership Transition Team as City Council searches for next City Manager

Imagine That Performance, a growing consulting company focused on local government leadership, executed an agreement with the City of Temple Terrace to provide an Interim City Manager along with a Leadership Transition Team to stabilize leadership as the city begins the process of hiring a permanent City Manager.

The agreement features Steven Spina, Ph.D. serving as the Interim City Manager. Dr. Spina, a senior consultant with Imagine That Performance, spent 3 months as the Interim Town Manager for Kenneth City, Florida last year in a similar arrangement. He was the City Manager for Zephyrhills, Florida for 20 years prior to retiring in 2019.

The agreement also provides a Leadership Transition Team to Temple Terrace. In the part-time role of Special Assistant to the City Manager, Michelle Lee Berger, former Town Manager of Sewall’s Point, Florida and Lynne Ladner, former City Manager of Hart, Michigan will support the Interim City Manager in varios executive capacities.  

“We are excited to provide the City of Temple Terrace with the transitional leadership needed” said Rob Duncan, Managing Director of Imagine That Performance. “City Council can now secure an executive recruiting firm and conduct a nationwide search for their next City Manager without unnecessary time pressure.”

Mr. Duncan continued: “We have the ambition to find game-changing solutions for better performing local governments. Partnerships like these are important to help us to deliver on our ambitions.”

Imagine That Performance, LLC envisions a world where local government leaders are always striving to learn and implement evolving leadership principles, so that they can nurture trusting teams, advance employee development, expand citizen participation and further community trust. The firm has established nationwide Virtual Think Tanks for City Managers and County Administrators. These professionally-facilitated groups offer a real-time platform to leverage other leaders’ experience to ask the right questions and offer insight prior to developing solutions. With Local Government Consulting and Professional Facilitation Services, Imagine That Performance is providing hands-on resources to get work done, generating desired outcomes for municipalities.