About the Series
Conceived and created by SiG, Inspiring Action for Social Impact is a national speakers’ series comprised of a mix of in-person and online public talks by international thought leaders, applied learning workshops and dialogue on practical strategies for social innovation in Canada. Led by the world’s leading social innovation thinkers and practitioners, the Inspiring Action for Social Impact Series will guide us through proven collaboration and co-creation approaches and strategies that are capable of generating practical solutions to Canada’s most pressing and complex social problems.
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"For simplicity, I argue that the journey towards the highly innovative public organisation must be led simultaneously across four dimensions: Creating consciousness of what innovation is and means to the organisation; building capacity to innovate, from political context over strategy and organisational structure to people and culture; mastering a process of co-creating new solutions with people, not for them; and finally, to display the courage at all levels of management to really lead innovation." Christian Bason, from his latest book, Leading Public Sector Innovation: Co-creating for a better society. |
Christian Bason is head of MindLab, a unit for citizen-centred innovation. MindLab involves citizens and businesses in the co-creation of new public policy and services. MindLab is part of the Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, the Ministry of Taxation and the Ministry of Employment. Christian is a regular columnist and blogger and the author of three books on leadership, innovation and change in the public sector.
In addition to coordinated workshops with government staff, Christian spoke to a sold-out audience at MaRS as part of the Global Leadership Series. The video of this event will be available shortly, but Christian has kindly shared his presentation with us. Christian also participated in a Tele-learning session with Paul Born, President, Tamarack and Series supporter. The interview will be posted here as soon as it's available.
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