Productivity with Purpose
Overview
Governments are under increasing pressure to deliver better outcomes with constrained resources while responding to technological, economic and social change.
Artificial intelligence is often presented as a solution to productivity challenges, yet public sector leaders face broader questions:
What does meaningful productivity look like beyond cost reduction, and how can governments improve service delivery while achieving savings?
How do leaders demonstrate that reform is working and delivering public value?
How do governments maintain public trust, manage risk and secure social licence when pursuing contentious change?
How should government redesign itself in an AI-enabled environment?
Bringing together senior leaders from government, academia and public administration, this discussion will explore how public institutions can improve performance while maintaining legitimacy, public value and community confidence.
Why This Dialogue
Governments across Australia are being asked to deliver better outcomes with constrained resources while adapting to rapid advances in artificial intelligence.
Productivity is no longer just a question of efficiency or savings; it is also about whether public institutions can redesign services, improve outcomes and show clearly how reform is creating public value. At the same time, public confidence and consent cannot be assumed, particularly where change is complex, contested or enabled by new technologies.
This conversation is timely because leaders need practical ways to pursue reform at pace while maintaining trust, managing risk and securing the social licence needed for change to last.
Speakers
MC | Mathew Healy
Deputy Secretary, Strategy and Delivery, Department of Premier and Cabinet
Panellist | Alicja Mosbauer
Senior Australian Public Service Executive
Panellist | Bonnie Shaw
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy & Impact Officer
Panellist | Mark Bowles
Head of the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics
Who Should Attend
This Dialogue is designed for:
Senior executives
Policy leaders
Strategy professionals
Workforce and organisational development leaders
Evaluation practitioners and academic partners from Tasmania and across Australia
Event Details
Audience takeaway
Participants will gain practical insights into how governments can pursue reform agendas that are both productive and publicly legitimate.
They will leave with frameworks for thinking about AI, evaluation and trust as interconnected leadership challenges rather than separate policy issues.