Enhance your leadership skills in government

Speakers

• Sally Washington

  Executive Director, Aotearoa, ANZSOG - The Australia and New Zealand School of Government

  New Zealand

• Lil Anderson

  Tumu Whakarae - Chief Executive at Te Arawhiti - Office for Maori Crown Relations

  New Zealand

• Pia Andrews

  Strategic Advisor - Public Sector

  Australia

• Sally Washington, an independent public policy/public management consultant who has worked in senior roles in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally. She is a Practice Fellow at the Australia New Zealand School of Government. Sally set up, and was inaugural director of the New Zealand Policy Project, a collaborative programme to improve policy quality and capability across government, based in the New Zealand Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. She has since worked with a range of organisations and jurisdictions seeking to improve their policy capability (including the UK, States of Jersey, Australia and Ireland).  She worked for seven years at the OECD where she managed a network of Heads of Prime Ministers/Presidents Offices from OECD countries and has consulted to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. She has also worked as an adviser to a New Zealand Cabinet Minister (Minister for Women) and Prime Minister in policy roles, and in joint central agency teams leading public sector reform programmes. She is an Apolitical Top Contributor, with articles on policy capability, foresight in government and building better relationships between ministers and officials.

• Lil Anderson, appointed as the inaugural and current Chief Executive of the Office for Māori Crown Relations – Te Arawhiti, in 2019. She hails from the small Hokianga settlement of Panguru and is of Te Rarawa and Ngapuhi descent. Her career spans over 30 years of public service including the Ministry of Justice, Office of Treaty Settlements, Te Puni Kōkiri, the Crown Forestry Rental Trust and the New Zealand Māori Council. Throughout this time, Lil has worked directly with communities, particularly iwi Māori, across the width and breadth of Aotearoa. She also works across the public service system, with Crown entities and with local government as part of her leadership of capability building. She holds a public service system leadership role on Māori Crown relations. During COVID-19 outbreaks in both 2020 and 2021, Lil has played a key role in linking up Government with communities through the Caring for Communities Chief Executives group and through the national and iwi regional networks established and operated through Te Arawhiti. These connections allow for real-time solutions to be developed between Ministers, senior officials and our iwi Treaty partners. Outside of work, Lil has a busy life with her husband, her two daughters and her three beautiful mokopuna. She is an avid sports fan and enjoys a good sci-fi novel!