Free online event
How public servants can thrive during turbulent times
Exclusively for public servants and policymakers
Thursday, Jan 12, 2023
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You’ll learn how to:
- Identify ways to improve how you work through change
- Understand how turbulent times can affect you and your team, personally and professionally
- Recognise ways to effectively navigate through challenging times
Speakers
Share your ideas, tips and helpful resources with the Apolitical community by responding to 'What advice do you have for a manager leading teams through lots of change?'
Speaker resources
- What working two public service jobs on two continents taught me about the future of work, Apolitical article by Dexter Docherty
- How strategic foresight can help create forward-looking public policies, Apolitical article by Dexter Docherty
- How public sector managers can successfully lead international teams, Apolitical article by Dexter Docherty
- The Leadership Labs: How to be an agile leader featuring Alex Benay
- Video: How to be an agile leader featuring Alex Benay
Apolitical resources
- Leading Your Team Through Crisis, Premium course
- Do any of your organizations have a crisis comms framework or process for tragedy responses that you could share? Q&A
- Strategic foresight: How policymakers can make sense of a turbulent world, article by Jeanette Kwek and Seema Gail Parkash
- Leading through crisis, article by Mark Korad
- Innovation and crisis: The six factors that spark radical innovation in turbulent times, article by Charles Leadbeater
- Uncertainty is here to stay — make the most of it, article by Alanna Markle
- Agile leadership in crisis mode, article by Johnathan Brammall
- Why expansive thinking is the new creative fuel for public servants, article by Christian Bason
From the community
- Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, book by James Nestor
- reclaimai app
A climate crisis, a pandemic, changing leaders, the cost of living - lately it can feel like there’s a never-ending stream of crises for public servants to deal with.
So how do you deal with this lack of stability, both personally and as a team?
Watch this free online workshop to learn how to work effectively during turbulent times. You’ll explore how agile ways of working can help, and find out tips for navigating through change of all kinds.
Who should watch:
This workshop is for any public servant or policymaker, at any level, who wants to learn more about navigating through turbulent times, both for yourself and for your team.
Interested in how Apolitical can support you and your organisation? Learn about collaborating with us.
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Speakers
Dexter Docherty
Foresight Analyst, OECD
France
Alex Benay
Global Lead, Government Azure Strategy at Microsoft
Canada
Jono Anzalone
Executive Director at The Climate Initiative
United States
Alex Benay, became Associate Deputy Minister of Enterprise Pay Coordination in June 2023. Prior to this appointment, Alex was a senior partner with Levio Business and Technology and Vice Chair of the National Arts Centre. From 2020 to 2022, he served as the Global Lead of Government Azure Strategy at Microsoft where he helped governments around the world adopt cloud technologies. From 2019 to 2020, Alex was a partner with KPMG where he led the digital transformation of governments and Fortune 500 companies in the areas of technology, people and strategy. Alex was a Deputy Minister at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat from 2017 to 2019 where he served as Chief Information Officer. In this role, he oversaw key information technology initiatives in service modernization, legacy system management, good governance, and open and transparent government.
Jono Anzalone, Jono is the Executive Director of The Climate Initiative (TCI), a nonpartisan organization that inspires to educate, empower, and active 10 million youth around climate action by 2025. He joined TCI after a long tenure at both the Red Cross, where he started as a youth volunteer in 1994 in Omaha, Nebraska. Most recently, Jono served as the Head of Disaster and Crisis, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies for the Americas and Caribbean region, based in Panama, Panama and also served as the Vice President of International Services at the American Red Cross based out of Washington, DC. Jono’s hundreds of national and international disaster assignments with the American Red Cross, IFRC, and ICRC have led him to serve in places such as Mexico, Belize, Suriname, Jamaica, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Liberia for the Ebola crisis, and Haiti, to include being detailed to the United States Agency on International Development (USAID) during the 2010 Haiti Earthquake and assigned to their Response Management Team to lead the agencies donations management activity. Jono served as the Advocacy Committee chair for the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (National VOAD) from 2012-2015 and is currently the Vice-Chair of the Craft Relief Emergency Fund (CERF+). Jono graduated from Creighton University with a BA in Political Science, the University of Nebraska with an MS in Economics, a doctorate in Educational Leadership and Higher Education at the University of Nebraska, and the Harvard School of Public Health and Kennedy School of Government National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, and has earned the International Association of Emergency Management Certified Emergency Manager (CEM®) credential and was awarded the Meta-Leader of the Year from Harvard School of Public Health and Kennedy School of Government National Preparedness Leadership Initiative in 2017. Since 2003, Jono has held teaching appointments in economics, disaster management, and leadership at colleges and universities across the country. Jono and his husband Andy, a Maine native and Sr. Director of Gender Equality and Social Justice at Save the Children, moved from Panama, Panama in September of 2020 to live in Maine with their Golden Doodle, Penni.
