The community where
change makers connect
This is an important leadership forum. Limited places
are available !
"An established company
which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovate, is
doomed to decline and extinction"
- Peter Drucker, known as
the father of modern management
NESA brings
you the opportunity
to attend
this important workshop
The Meeting
the Social Innovation Imperative workshop
The
workshop offered by the Australian Social Innovation Exchange
(ASIX) is a must for organisations that want new insights and tools
to drive service innovation in their organisation and will
introduce participants to cutting edge strategies in innovation and
collaboration.
Even though
most organisations recognise that innovation and collaboration is
important and why it is important, it is too often difficult to
actually achieve. Understanding the skills, knowledge, strategies
and motivation to do it right, is critical to meeting the
innovation imperative.
Aims of the
workshop:
- Recognise the important role of innovation within the human
services sector
- Identify frameworks and tools which can assist with productive
innovation and collaboration
- Understand effective strategies to overcome barriers to
innovation generated by Government policy, organisational habits,
and individual inertia
- Assist participants to identify strategies which foster greater
innovation for areas within their sphere of influence
Who should
attend? People in organisational leadership roles,
and others with responsibility for identifying and developing
innovation within employment and human service organisations should
not miss this workshop opportunity.
When:
Thursday July 14th
2011
Where:
Sydney CBD
Cost:
$500.00 NESA
Corporate Members, NESA Associate Members $600.00 and Non Members
$650.00 (All prices are inclusive of GST)
For further information and / or to
register please call Max at NESA on 03 9686 3500
or via email at maxc@nesa.com.au
"In the long history of
humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned
to collaborate and improvise most effectively have
prevailed." -Charles
Darwin
Facilitator
Biographies
Steve Lawrence
AO
Steve Lawrence AO is the Chief
Executive of the recently established, Australian Social Innovation
Exchange, created to find fresh solutions to Australia's key social
challenges through cross-sector collaboration. He also
consults in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
For 29 years until late 2008 Steve
was Founder, CEO and Social Entrepreneur with WorkVentures, an
entrepreneurial community economic development agency, based in
Sydney.
Steve as appointed an Officer in
the Order of Australia in January 2010 for 'service to the
community through leadership roles in the development and
implementation of non-profit ventures to create social change,
particularly for youth and the long-term unemployed'.
Over the last 30 years Steve has
also played a significant role in creating over 13 new non-profit
organisations, most of which are still operating. They include Job
Futures, United Way Sydney, Jobs Australia, Social Ventures
Australia, School for Social Entrepreneurs Australia.
Tess Julian
For over 20 years Tess Julian has
worked with clients to produce research, training and innovation
systems and processes to assist organisations to address their
unique challenges.
As Director of Ratio, she has
specialised in research into industry needs for the Vocational
Education and Training sector, particularly in the area of quality
in training and learning. She was Executive Officer of the Industry
Training Board for Assessment and Training for two years,
overseeing the development and implementation of the Training
Package for trainers and assessors.
She also led a team of consultants
in researching and developing learning materials for the
development of innovation in organisations. Based on this work, she
has developed a model of innovative thinking and an implementation
program, which helps organisations to find new ways to solve
problems and see opportunities, using a way of thinking and
behaving founded on curiosity, creativity, discipline and
trust.
Most recently she has been working
with InnovationXchange, a global network of Open Innovation service
providers. She developed and delivered the training for IXC
Intermediaries in Australia, Malaysia and the United Kingdom. She
also devised a program for internal collaboration and innovation
which has been successfully implemented in Taiwan, Malaysia and
Mauritius, as well as in organisations and clusters of
organisations in Australia.
As part of her work with the
InnovationXchange she worked closely with the Australian Social
Innovation Exchange (ASIX), trialling the Intermediary model within
social organisations. In partnership with ASIX and NESA she project
managed a DEEWR Innovation Fund project which successfully utilised
the Intermediary model in a selection of social enterprises.