Innovation in Public Policy

Starting in January 2024, I will be surveying several hundred high performers recruited into the federal government since 2002 to identify which exhibit characteristics of leadership observed in highly successful innovative organizations. This study will generate recommendations on how to enable such networked leadership within the public service as well

The Remembering Project aims to reverse the erasure that Canada ’ s system of residential schools was designed to accomplish. By volunteering to unearth the history of one child each, lost to a residentia l school over our country ’ s long history, Canadians have an opportunity to take action to undo the harm our society caused.

The methods that German far - right extremists use to distort public debate on immigration can be found within Canadian media environments as well. On October 24, 2023 . I organized a conference in Calgary in which we compared disinformation trends in different liberal democracies. This is a concrete step toward a pattern of mutual learning between democracies on shared challenges and how inclusive, pluralist democracies can best meet them