One year on from the inspiring A Level Playing Field – Gender Equality in Leadership Summit, the Office for the Public Sector, in partnership with Senior Management Council and the Institute of Public Administration SA were excited to bring you The Second Innings…

The audience was inspired by keynote speaker, the Hon. Julia Gillard former Prime Minister, and motivated by the progress that the public sector has made in gender equality in leadership in the last 12 months!

We invite you to join us in driving inclusive leadership in the public sector where men and women are equally represented, valued and rewarded. As a public sector, we are committed to showing that gender equality in leadership is achievable and makes a powerful, positive difference to the productivity, effectiveness and innovation in all we do!

MC
Amanda Blair

Guest                                    
Hon. Julia Gillard
 27th Prime Minister of Australia
Hon Kyam Maher MLC                                              
Minister for Employment
Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation
Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation
Minister for Automotive Transformation
Minister for Science and Information Economy

Speakers                               
Dr Margaret Byrne
Principal Consultant, UGM Consulting
David Reynolds
Chief Executive Officer, Department of Treasury and Finance
Scott Ashby
Chief Executive, Primary Industries and Regions SA
Gary Edwards
Leadership Communication & Negotiation Expert
Leading Conversations
Erma Ranieri
Commissioner for Public Sector Employment

Delivering public value is increasingly challenging given increasing citizen demand, political uncertainty and technological disruption in a tightening fiscal environment and an era of smaller government.

At the same time, the world of work is changing and the public service must respond with a new set of skills, policies and ways of working to stay relevant.

A strategic approach to workforce planning will be vital to creating a highly mobile, diverse, entrepreneurial, commercially minded and digitally fluent workforce.

At this forum Michael Hiller shared the results of some recent work from KPMG in this area, and was then joined for a panel discussion on the impact for the public sector now and into the future.

The panel included:

• Erma Ranieri, Commissioner for Public Sector Employment in South Australia.
• Michael Hiller, National Industry Leader, Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare, KPMG Australia.

Dr Matt Pearce emceed the forum.

As we embark on delivering Public Value in a dynamic and rapidly changing time, the single factor that can help us make decisions is our Purpose. Our Purpose is a shared recognition of the reason why we exist—it is the context that determines whether a decision is the right one to make at any particular time.

When Purpose appeals to your intrinsic motivation and aligns with your values, it will fuel your success. As executives and senior managers, when we are aligned with our values on a daily basis, we have more energy and feel more fulfilled because we are leading from what’s important to us.

This dynamic forum engaged senior leaders across the Public Sector to share their understanding of how our values give us our sense of Purpose. It also explored and defined how we can come together to lead the way to make South Australia thrive and continue to build a modern Public Sector. This was the first of a number of forums to be held with managers focusing on embedding the Public Sector values.

The Commissioner for Public Sector Employment Erma Ranieri emceed the forum.

Download the Public Sector Purpose and Values here.

As part of Entrepreneurs’ Week 2017, IPAA SA hosted a forum to showcase examples of intrapreneurship in the South Australian public sector, and to explore emerging trends and challenges for achieving change, improving coordination and facilitating innovation.

Attendees gained insight into the role of intrapreneurs in pushing government forward, and were inspired by and learned from some successful SA-based initiatives.

The forum featured thinking from leading practitioners in innovation. Speakers included:

• Suzie Sosa, Co-Founder and CEO of Verb
• Dr Gemma Carey, NHMRC Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, UNSW Canberra
• Dr Kristin Alford, Director of MOD. at the University of South Australia.
• Tom Moore, Co-Founder and Managing Director, WithYouWithMe
• Elosie Burge, Partner and Design Strategist, Portable
• Erma Ranieri, Commissioner for Public Sector Employment
• Professor John Spoehr, Director of the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute at Flinders University
• Professor Eddie Blass, Founder and CEO of Conesol
• Thomas Sadowski, Director of Conesol
• Cezanne Green, Director, Secondary Learners, Department of Education and Child Development
• Deb O’Riley, Director, Adelaide Botanic High School, Department of Education and Child Development
• Matthew Anderson, Co-Founder, Social Capital
• Kirk Drage, Co- Founder, LeapSheep
• Dr Fiona Buick, Lecturer in Public Sector Management, UNSW Canberra

IPAA SA has placed a donation to the feedback survey’s most popular charity of choice, Cancer Council Australia. Thank you to those who participated. Videos and slides will be available soon.

View the live conversation on social media by visiting the hashtag #Intra2017 #EWeek2017. You can find us on Twitter @IPAASA and Facebook @IPAASouthAustralia.