Roger Forsgren

NASA’s Former Chief Knowledge Officer

From mechanic apprentice to NASA Chief Knowledge Officer, shaping engineering leadership.

Lean Knowledge Management

As the former Chief Knowledge Officer at NASA, Roger Forsgren has a unique understanding of maintaining the administration's renowned gold standard of data management in extremely high pressure environments.

Roger Forsgren started his career as a mechanic apprentice at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio and, after ten years of night school, he earned an undergraduate and then graduate degree in engineering. In 2005, Roger transferred to NASA Headquarters in Washington D.C. to manage agency training efforts and in 2013 was appointed the director of the Academy of Program/Project and Engineering Leadership (APPEL). In 2016 he was given the additional responsibility of serving as the NASA Chief Knowledge Officer until his retirement in 2021.