Mission

Today, we are surrounded by innovations: new products, new services, and new technologies are now the norm, not the exception. Yet the “big issues” of innovation which weigh on our future – powering economic growth, creating responsive governments, building healthy industries – are hard to grasp, and even harder to tackle.

The Innovation Leadership Series is intended as a forum for dialogue on these “big issues” of innovation. Through seminars and panel discussions, in a format open to the general public, the Innovation Leadership Series brings together leaders from business, government, and academia to share their approaches, their frustrations, and their hopes for tackling today’s most pressing innovation issues.

For more information, or to nominate future topics and/or panelists, please send an email to Richard Lockhart. We welcome any and all suggestions for future events, panelists, and venues!

 

Past Events

January 23, 2013: Preparing the 21st Century Workforce

Preparing the 21st Century Workforce for economic change and uncertainty has placed considerable strain on America's workforce. Companies must re-tool their teams with 21st-Century skills and experience. Colleges and vocational schools must continuously adjust curricula to keep pace with changing employer needs, and the public sector struggles to create the right policies to match training programs with market forces.

We had a panel discussion about how America's workforce can remain competitive in the 21st Century:

Nancy Snyder, President and CEO, Commonwealth Corporation
Nancy Stager, EVP Human Resources and Charitable Giving, Eastern Bank
Jodi Detjen, Professor of Management, Suffolk University
Morris McInnes (moderator), Professor of Accounting, Suffolk University

October 25th, 2011: Leading Innovation in Municipal Government

We had a panel discussion about critical issues facing our cities and towns and
how we address them with top Massachusetts municipal leaders:
• Bernard F. Lynch, City Manager, Lowell
• Wayne P. Marquis, Town Manager, Danvers
• Maureen Godsey Valente, Town Manager, Sudbury

Moderated by Richard Kelliher, former Town Administrator, Brookline.

Co-sponsors included: The Institute for Public Service, Center for Innovation & Change Leadership, and Moakley Center for Public Management in collaboration with the Massachusetts Municipal Association, Geoffrey Beckwith, Executive Director.