Public Leadership in the Digital Age

The Public Leadership in the Digital Age (PLDA) program, now in its second year, has established itself as a critical development opportunity for senior public sector leaders navigating the complexities of the digital age.

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 make 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. The 2025 line-up of Guest Contributors will be confirmed by 31 March 2025.

Guest contributors to the program design:

• 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
• 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  
• Master practical frameworks for decision-making in complex digital environments, including:
  • The Risk, Reward, and Resilience (RRR) framework for AI governance
  • Strategic foresight tools for policy development
  • Innovation capability frameworks for organizational transformation

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.   

$13,750.00 (inc. GST)

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

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

Read our cancellation, transfer and refund policy.