IPAC-U: Finding Purpose in Public Service

Many people enter the public service with an ambition to serve the public in some fashion.  These passions can run headlong into the realities and challenges of working in government. Hierarchies can be frustrating, approvals processes a drag, and some office dynamics demoralizing. More than that, many public servants confront the pressures of a 24/7 work culture that strains their ability to maintain balance with their priorities at home.  Based on The Public Servant’s Guide to Government in Canada, this session discusses strategies for maintaining your focus, drive, and fulfilment in your public sector career.

Presenter Jared Wesley is a pracademic--a practicing political scientist and recovering bureaucrat--whose career path to an Associate Professor role in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta has included senior management positions in the Alberta Executive Council and the Alberta Public Service Commission.  He studies the politics of bureaucracy and the bureaucracy of politics. Follow him on Twitter (@ipracademic).

PLEASE NOTE: All attendees must visit AB Health Central Reception on the ground floor of ATB Place, North Tower, to obtain a visitor’s pass to access the 19th floor.