States of Change Learning Programme - info session

Are you an ambitious government team, thinking there must be a different, or better way of doing things?

The States of Change learning programme is a practice-led experience that embeds innovation capability and helps public servants become better problem solvers.

Building on a successful pilot of the programme in 2018 in partnership with the Department of Premier and Cabinet in Victoria, this year we'll be running the programme across Australia and New Zealand, and are looking for government teams to take part.

This info session is an opportunity to hear about the learning programme and what we’re looking for in an application, from Brenton Caffin, Faculty member of States of Change and Executive Director at UK's Innovation Foundation Nesta.

More about the programme:

The States of Change initiative brings together the world's best public innovation practitioners and experts to enhance the quality, coherence and reach of public innovation learning. By joining a global community of practice, participating teams and their departments will be able to draw on the experiences of learning programmes run in Colombia and Canada as well as the emerging programmes and partnerships across South America and Europe.

The learning programme in Australia and New Zealand this year runs over six months, where teams take part in the programme alongside their day jobs and learn how to take an experimental approach to problem solving. This involves exploring problems from new perspectives, and then testing and iterating possible solutions in order to quickly learn what works and what doesn’t. Importantly, participants also learn how to help create the right conditions for innovation to happen.

Throughout, teams work on real-life projects from their departments that they bring to the programme. This ensures a bias towards practical action and ‘learning by doing’, taking teams on a learning journey where they go from testing out new approaches to applying them in practice.

The cost and requirements to participate (this includes ensuring you have the right team, innovation project to learn with and active executive support for your participation) can be found here.