Sustainovation: Building Sustainable Innovation-One Creative Idea at a Time

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Description

The governing process in this new environment of political division and agendas is challenging. How can public managers be more proactive and less reactive in working with their governing boards? There are a lot of theories on how to work effectively with your governing board, but very few examples of practical tools to make it happen. In this workshop, Bill Stipp, council member from Goodyear Arizona, president of Leading-Edge Consulting, and senior associate for the Mercer Group Associates; and Mike Letcher, president and CEO of BridgeGroup LLC and senior associate for Mercer Group Associates will present six tools to help you work more effectively with your governing board. Do these tools work? The answer is yes! We will provide examples from our experiences and clients who are effectively using the tools. In this hands-on, interactive session, participants will learn how these tools work and have opportunities to discuss in small groups how they might be used in their communities.

Learning Objectives

Understand the true nature of innovation and why it is important
Understand techniques on how to get creative (as an individual and team)
Know how to brainstorm better ideas with their teams in ways that leave the team feeling pumped the hell up and empowered to conquer the world

Format

In-Person or Live-Online

About the Presenter

Nick Kittle

Nick Kittle is the author of the best-selling innovation book Sustainovation: Building Sustainable Innovation in Government, One Wildly Creative Idea at a Time, and spent 15 years working in local government, most recently as a Chief Innovation Officer. During his government career, Nick won 3 national awards for innovation, directed 17 different divisions, and developed over 65 unique or first-of-their-kind pilot projects while directly generating $7.8 M in savings and pioneering the concept of Innovation Value. Nick is now a dynamic keynote speaker and trains across the country on building high-performance government and has visited nearly 100 different communities to help them transform their mindset through Sustainovation!