Conference Highlights

Today’s leaders are operating in a fast-paced environment and an unpredictable world. Leadership in the public sector faces additional challenges resulting from drastically reduced budgets, growing demand for better services and continued pressure for greater accountability for the prudent and effective use of government dollars.

The traditional models of leadership are losing their value as leaders respond to an increasingly complex and challenging world that seeks new and innovating approaches to meet program and service delivery expectations. The ‘people’ of the public service are the key to delivering improved services whether through a motivated workforce or through the development of innovations that challenges the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of improving services delivery. Technology can answer some of the ‘how’ but employees must be engaged and challenged at their highest capacity to re-shape how government works. This engagement involves the exercising of leadership at all levels in an organization.

‘Wicked Problems! Wicked Times! Today’s Leadership Reality!’ is the sixth in an on-going series of leadership conferences delivered by the Institute of Public Administration on Canada (IPAC). The theme and topics of this conference focus on bringing senior leaders from all levels of government and the broader public sector, academics and practitioners together to learn from each other, to build potentially beneficial networks, to inspire and be inspired to be the best.