Public Leadership in the Digital Age

Our new Public Leadership in the Digital Age (PLDA) program prepares leaders with the essentials they need to lead effectively in the digital age.

We are now taking registrations for the first full delivery of this program in October 2024. The inaugural PLDA program is for Deputy Secretaries, Executive Directors, and their equivalents.

Public leadership responsibilities have expanded to include navigating rapid technological change and, new policy problems, fostering innovation, and embracing the potential of the digital age, for good and for all. 

This program provides a way to think about and act on the opportunities and risks of the digital age that public leaders are already encountering.  

Think – embrace the mindsets, questions and frameworks to make sense of the leadership landscape shaped by the digital age 

Act – learn how to use the tools and frameworks to take good decisions with a growing sense of practical confidence.  

We’ve brought together a unique blend of experts, practitioners, and educators to help design and deliver this program. Joining participants in Canberra this year (either in-person or via video link) will be:

• Martin Stewart-Weeks (ANZSOG Practice Fellow and Program Director)
• Janine O’Flynn, Director, Crawford School of Public Policy
• Rick Shaw, Deloitte partner; Gamillaroi mathematician and actuary from Northern NSW
• Andrea Siodmok, Dean, RMIT School of Design; former director, UK Cabinet Office Policy Lab
• Jordan Hatch, New General Manager at Services Australia
• Ian Oppermann, Co-founder ServiceGen and Former NSW Chief Data Scientist
• Marek Rucinski, Deputy ATO Commissioner Data, AI and Analytics
• Elizabeth Tydd, Australian Information Commissioner; former NSW Information Commissioner
• Brenton Caffin, Exec Director Economic, Environment and Infrastructure SA Premier’s Dept; CEO States of Change
• Kate Pounder, Independent consultant, Former CEO Technology Council of Australia
• Nick Davis, Co-Director, Human Technology Institute
• Aurelie Jacquet, Professor, RegNet School of Regulation and Global Governance
• Frances Foster-Thorpe, Exec Director, Shaping Futures and Chef Data Office, NSW Cabinet Office
• Scott Perugini-Kelly, Director of Strategic Foresight at the NSW Cabinet Office
• Anthea Roberts, Professor, RegNet School of Regulation and Global Governance
• Pia Andrews, Chief Data Officer, Federal Department of Home Affairs
• Pradeep Philip,  Lead partner, Deloitte Access Economics, Former Secretary Victoria Health

The following have assisted in program design:

• Nicola Hazell, Social Innovator and Board Director, The Sunshine Effect
• Hon Victor Dominello, Founder and President, Servicegen.co and former NSW Minister for Customer Service and Digital Government
• Geoff Mulgan, Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL)
• James Plunkett, Chief Practices Officer for Nesta and the Behavioural Insights Team.

Public Leadership in the Digital Age will help participants: 

• Situate their leadership in the changing theory and practice of public administration and leadership  
• Understand new ways of working and leading based on a robust and practical toolkit of digital methods and mindsets with a focus on: 

• • Modern digital tools and platforms 
  • The safe, ethical and effective use of data 
  • Responding to cybersecurity risks 
  • Understanding the role of new digital identity frameworks and tools 
  • The uses and misuses of AI 
  • Understanding the role of ethics, information access and privacy. 

• Become familiar with two analytical and decision-making tools and frameworks that will increasingly form part of a public leadership toolkit for the digital age. 

Across those three core elements, the program will integrate a focus on First Nations frameworks and ways of thinking, the principles and practice of adaptive leadership and the concepts of public value.   

To ensure a targeted cohort and valuable peer exchange, this program is open to Deputy Secretaries, Executive Directors, and their equivalents. Subsequent programs will be available for other cohorts in future, please express your interest should you wish to be advised as they are scheduled.  

This program is aimed at leaders across policy, regulation and service design and delivery, as well as those with direct technology and digital transformation roles. The program will bring together leaders from different functions and domains to work through many of the digital age’s big impacts, the risks, the challenges and the many growing opportunities.   

$14,000 AUD (excl GST)

Travel and accommodation arrangements, and expenses, are not included in the program fee.

A 1 hour online information session was held Tuesday 23 July, 2024. Watch the session below.

To enquire about this course, please contact ANZSOG’s Program Delivery team with the program name as the subject line to e.education@anzsog.edu.au or call us on +61 3 8344 1984.

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