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I developed the idea of New Public Passion in partnership with the UNDP. It seeks to rebalance intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to improve public sector performance in a changing world
As the lead international advisor to the Government of Myanmar and the UNDP on civil service reform in Myanmar I coached, inspired and facilitated four rounds of consultation with more than 1000 civil servants and non-governmental stakeholders and led the development and iteration of the plan for action
I was Secretary to the Whānau Ora Taskforce that developed the report leading to the establishment of the Whānau Ora programme
I have been a public voice on the quality of New Zealand’s public service
As lead international advisor on civil service reform to the Government of Mongolia and UNDP I
developed a civil service reform strategy to leverage enactment of the new Civil Service Law from January 2019 and presented the reform and supporting training to 800 civil service leaders
I led the development of the Pacific Public Service Fale, an expert team governed by Pacific Public Service Commissioners, seeking to improve public sector performance across the Pacific and secured NZ$20 million in funding over 5 years
I developed and achieved buy-in to a common policy approach and implementation plan at the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade for foreign, trade and development policy including policy quality standards and guidance on key policy analysis, commissioning and peer review tools (see page 55 of the MFAT 2019 Annual Report)
Supported implementation of New Zealand’s Better Public Services reforms with a focus on cross-agency results and sector leadership, public reporting of results, strengthening the assurance role of the Government Chief Information Officer, execution of Functional Leadership mandates across the State services and designing funding solutions for cross-agency initiatives
Secured Cabinet agreement to and funding for establishing an Analytics & Insights team to analyse anonymised ‘big data’ from across State services to identify new opportunities to achieve better outcomes for New Zealanders and improve value for money from initiatives
I shared my lessons from the Better Public Services reforms with the international public sector community in the most advanced public sectors
I shared my lessons from the Better Public Services reforms with the international public sector community in less advanced public sectors (see pages 19-24)
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