Authored the Law. Implemented the System.
Founded by Jerry Luke LeBlanc—author of Louisiana’s Act 1465 of 1997 and the Commissioner of Administration who implemented it. Recognized by Governing Magazine as Public Official of the Year, 2005, for transforming Louisiana’s budgeting from line-item budgeting to performance-based accountability. His practice is built on what twenty-nine years of building and studying that system revealed — not only about what makes performance governance work, but about what it takes to make it last.
Services
Rapid Assessment
A focused diagnostic of your current budget process, performance measures, and accountability structures. Identifies gaps, strengths, and a clear path forward. Designed for states that want to know where they stand before committing to a full engagement.
Full Implementation
Complete design and deployment of a performance-based budgeting architecture tailored to your state’s statutory framework, agency structure, and political environment. Built to survive changes in administration.
Strategic Retainer
Ongoing advisory partnership providing legislative session support, performance measure refinement, and continuous improvement of your accountability system.
Legislative Strategy
Expert guidance on drafting, positioning, and advancing performance-based budgeting legislation. Informed by the only practitioner who has both authored a state PBB statute and further implemented it as the state’s chief budget officer.
Speaking & Advisory
Keynote presentations, legislative briefings, and board-level advisory engagements. Available for conferences, state legislative committees, budget commissions, and executive leadership forums.
All engagements begin with a conversation.
About
Jerry Luke LeBlanc was elected to five terms in the Louisiana House of Representatives, where he was appointed Chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Over eight years as Chairman, he conducted a five-state comparative study of performance budgeting systems, authored the Louisiana Government Performance and Accountability Act of 1997 (Act 1465), and built a legislatively driven performance-based budgeting framework that has been in continuous statutory operation for nearly three decades. It is the only such system in American history designed and implemented by the same individual who authored it as a sitting legislator and then continued its implementation as the state’s chief administrative and budget officer.
Positioned to become the next Speaker of the Louisiana House, LeBlanc instead accepted the appointment as Commissioner of Administration — the state’s chief budget, administrative and operations officer. Governor Blanco described the Commissioner role as the most important job in her administration and chose the man who had pioneered performance-based budgeting in the House to fill it. LeBlanc resigned his House seat to accept the appointment.
Over four years as Commissioner, he continued to implement the framework across all state agencies, managing a state budget that grew from $17 billion to $32 billion during the post-hurricane recovery and directing more than two dozen offices — including through Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
In 2005, Governing Magazine named him Public Official of the Year, alongside Governor Mike Huckabee, CDC Director Thomas Frieden, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper, and other leaders who went on to distinguished careers in public service.
“He’s clearly one of the most knowledgeable and experienced officials when it comes to these issues,” said Judy Zelio of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Peer-reviewed research at Georgia State University, analyzing all fifty states, found that institutional mechanisms for legislative oversight — not legislative resources alone — were the statistically significant predictor of performance-budgeting implementation quality. The system LeBlanc built in Louisiana is grounded in exactly that architecture.
The statutory architecture LeBlanc built has operated continuously for nearly three decades across five governors — and taught him what it takes to make performance governance last beyond the officeholder who built it.
Contact Us
All engagements begin with a conversation. Contact us to discuss your state’s performance governance needs.
jerry@leblancperformancegroup.com
Lafayette, Louisiana