March 2019 newsletter  

Graduation day! First teams complete our learning programmes

After a 9-month journey, the first two cohorts of public servants have graduated from our learning programmes - in Melbourne with the State Government of Victoria (above), and in Ottawa with the Privy Council's Impact & Innovation Unit and Government of Canada Entrepreneurs initiative.

It's been an intensive, rewarding and inspiring journey as we've worked with the teams to apply new approaches to live projects and build their skills as a community of public innovators. 

Read about how in Victoria the teams and their execs committed to joint future actions, and how in Canada the teams have been 'working out loud' to build their community of practice.

What we've been reading

• Christian Bason and Robert D. Austin explain why design thinking requires even more active and effective leadership than other change management approaches to keep efforts on a path to success.

• Professor Catherine Needham poses some questions on how public servants can ‘go guerrilla’ – finding small ways to put their learning into practice, enlist others, disrupt at the edges.

• Cassie Robinson shares the design principles for the Systems Changers programme, which is designed for frontline workers and run with the Children’s Society and Lankelly Chase.

• Milica Begovic & Kal Joffres explain why UNDP has launched the world’s largest learning network around development challenges in an effort to re-imagine development for the 21st century.