Helping each other out of the crisis
Benjamin P. Taylor
RedQuadrant | the Public Service Transformation Academy | systems | cybernetics | complexity / public | service | transformation business evolutionary | avid learner. Reframing for better outcomes. Connecting.
Public Service: state of transformation
The PSTA’s 2019 Conference
Reflect and develop yourself at the Public service: state of transformation conference. This year’s theme is Helping each other out of the crisis and will be held on Tuesday 18 June 2019 at Mary Ward House in London. Our second annual conference is the leading platform for bringing together thought leaders and practitioners across public service transformation. Throughout the day you will be able to:
Steal with pride from other commissioners and transformation leaders, sharing case studies ‘warts and all’.
Experience the Theatre of the Oppressed and participate in a live metasystemic session on the future of transport in cities.
Hone your collaborative leadership skills with frank advice from expert leaders. Come and contribute to our confidential session on ‘learning from failure’!
“The best conference I have ever attended” -AD Commissioner, Surrey County Council
Together we will be able to help each other understand what works and doesn’t work in achieving better outcomes for citizens from public service design and delivery.
Hear from:
- Matt Prosser, CEO, Dorset Councils Partnership, ‘Collaborative Leadership’
- Todd Holden, Director, Low Carbon, Manchester Growth Company, ‘Maximising Social Value’
- Rebekah Sutcliffe, Strategic Director of Reform, Oldham
- Liz Perfect, Head of Service, Commissioning & Planning Children and Family Services innovation partnership
- Genevieve Laurier, Head of Delivery and Impact, The Social Innovation, ‘Engaging providers and citizens in co-production’
- Stefania Horne, Head of Parks and Sport, Hounslow
- Benjamin Taylor, Managing Partner at RedQuadrant and Chief Executive of PSTA
- Robert Moran, Chief Executive, Elmbridge Borough Council, ‘Developing a Compassionate Organisation’
- Adam Lent, Director, NLGN, ‘Culture Shock: Creating a Changemaking Culture in Local Government’
- Becky Wyse, Head of Programmes, National Leadership Centre, ‘Public sector leadership and resilience – what do I need to do next?’
- Rich Wilson, Good and Bad Help: Can we really create an enabling state?
- Kirby Swales, Director, Local Government Policy and Troubled Families, MHCLG
- LocalGov Digital
- Many further speakers to be confirmed
“It was good to talk to like-minded people and transformers”
Participate in:
- A choice of over 25 break-out sessions including case studies on collaborative leadership, learning from failures, real co-production with citizens and communities, asset-based commissioning, creating a change-making culture, systems leadership across place, organisational restructure supporting change, creating meaningful social value, impact of Brexit on public service delivery, public sector leadership resilience, working smarter not harder – and more to follow!
- Unconference break-out sessions with the agenda set by participants on the day
- Experiential sessions including a Complexity Relationships Lab and the Theatre of the Oppressed
“The unconference worked well – much more interesting than other conferences as attendees proposed their own topics”
Network with:
- Thought leaders and practitioners from international, national and local government, health, social enterprises, charities and the private sector.
“Great networking, an opportunity to make connections with people doing great things across the public sector”
Leave the conference with our ground-breaking report Public service: state of transformation 2019, including case studies which you can steal with pride!
More participants comments from last year:
- “Excellent interactive workshop sessions"
- “Meeting someone that has already done what we are trying to do – learning from others’ practice”
- “Great workshops, real mix of themes, great mix of attendees”
- “Good range of speakers with interesting and relevant experiences”
For tickets and to find out more about last year's conference head to - https://www.publicservicetransformation.org/event/helping-each-other-out-of-the-crisis-psta-public-service-state-of-transformation-conference-2019/
Chief Visionary at Chambalabamba
4 年Often in my experience, these conferences offer lots of feel-good ideas and share successes that all have some value, but what often is lacking, hopefully not in this case, is real substantive, often out of the box, ideas to make the big necessary changes, like how to get out from under the death grip of corrupt governments. Why is it the revolutions, rebellions, strikes and protests hasn't changed much or corrected the problem? Why are we still subjected to having to accept the unacceptable every day of our lives, to have to be complicit with all the crimes against humanity by meekly accepting them? The fact that they are spying on us, creating refugees in Venezuela, Syria, and elsewhere and not being held accountable for it, besides destroying whole civilizations, murdering millions, just so some psychopathic corporatocrazy can steal the resources from a defenseless country and make another billion, why is this overlooked and accepted. Is it not a large part of the "system", of the whole system? Is cybernetics leaving this essential, huge part of the puzzle out? I don't get it.? I think now is the time that all corrupt governments need to be confronted, How? by leveraging the world-wide protests to act unilaterally, and at the same time to demand the restructuring of governments from vertical to horizontal, which is virtually uncorruptible. Horizontal governance provides the framework for a more efficient, less costly, more hands-on, more really democratic, decentralized way of organizing society. It is not dogmatic, is flexible, and is common-sensical. Rojava, Syria has been doing it for 8 years with 4.5 million people. I could tell you a lot about it, but it would be the way to govern the world, where everyone would have autonomy with cooperation and collaboration.? What do you think Benjamin, do you agree, and if not, tell me why please.