Public Sector
Leadership for a Networked World’s Public Sector Initiative provides transformational thought leadership and learning experiences for policymakers and executives designing the future of government outcomes and public value.

It’s a relay race. We have to charge as fast as we possibly can, and we have to hand the baton off to the next administration.


Scott Blackburn
Executive Director, MyVA, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
 

In the past five years, all Public Sector leaders reported experiencing moderate to extreme change.

93% of Public Sector leaders anticipate digital technologies will have extreme or significant change on their operating environments in the next five years.

State Chief Administrators identified limited funding, competing priorities, and organizational capacity as the top barriers hindering their efforts to drive good government.

These results were taken from surveys given to participants prior to their attendance at an LNW event.

LATEST INSIGHTS

In fall 2014, Mark Stutrud was fishing for salmon in Michigan’s Pere Marquette River when a colleague introduced an intriguing but fraught proposition: interviewing to become the CEO of Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI), the largest statewide social service agency in the state. As Stutrud...


In 2008, Walt Ekard, the Chief Administrative Officer for San Diego County, asked Nick Macchione,...


In 2011 and 2012, California Governor Jerry Brown issued a pair of executive orders that created...


In 2016, the Georgia Department of Administrative Services (DOAS) encountered what then-DOAS...

LATEST EVENT

October 11, 2017 to October 13, 2017

2017 NASCA Institute on Management and Leadership:

LATEST CASE STUDIES

In 2019, Missouri’s 16 separate, hierarchical, state agencies were not well-equipped for the complex set of challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic would present. Drawing inspiration from General Stanley McChrystal’s ‘team of teams’ model, Missouri set-up a Fusion Cell to mobilize resources and...

Early in his tenure, Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts established process improvement as a key strategy to “create a more effective, more efficient, and more customer-focused state government.” To achieve this, state leaders first evaluated state models from around the country to help introduce...

PAST EVENTS

June 13, 2017 to June 15, 2017

2017 Public Sector for the Future Summit: Citizen-Driven by Design

October 4, 2016 to October 7, 2016

2016 NASCA Institute on Management and Leadership:

October 4, 2016 to October 7, 2016

2016 NASCA Institute on Management and Leadership:


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