Greg Woods

Greg Woods was the first head of the office of Federal Student Aid, where so many PSG’ers got to know him and to help him help put America through school.

Greg was a passionate reinventor. He could have invented the genre. In his first top management job, he went around asking everybody, “What turns you on?

What makes you jump out of bed to rush to work in the morning?” He found that what turned them on was exactly what turned him on—the desire to make a difference. What makes you jump out of bed to rush

to work in the morning?” He found that what turned them on was exactly what turned him on—the desire to make a difference. That became Greg’s touchstone in all his work—the desire to make a difference.

Greg went to Washington as an unpaid volunteer to help reinvent government. He made a HUGE difference. He had a passion for customer service and for making the government accessible to people through the new information technology.

Greg had an even bigger passion for fixing the Internal Revenue Service—now there’s a way to make a difference in the way every American views government. Through the force of his personality and his conviction Greg got a reluctant Secretary of the Treasury and an eager Vice President to appoint him to form and head up an IRS customer service task force that made profound changes in the way the IRS operates, and he was responsible for the President’s decision to appoint the first-ever business leader to head the IRS, instead of a tax attorney.