Martin Stewart-Weeks
Martin is a published author, analyst and facilitator. He has been a public servant, a Ministerial advisor and Chief of Staff and a consultant and advisor. He has held positions in the federal and NSW public sector and worked for Cisco’s innovation and strategy group for 12 years leading a practice across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. As well as his own consulting and advisory work, Martin has held advisory roles with Deloitte and PwC and chaired or been on the boards of think tanks, advisory groups and committees for state and federal governments and a range of civil society organisations including the Australian Centre for Social Innovation and the Centre for Policy Development. Areas of focus include digital transformation, strategic thinking and planning for public sector organisations, management and leadership development, social care, cities and urban planning and learning and skills, including higher education. He is part of the team supporting The Possibility Partnership exploring approaches to human services systemic change and is a Practice Fellow at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government for digital government strategy and leadership.
Sunrise Sessions
Some institutions feel too slow, too outdated, too resistant to change. Do we tear them down and start again, or work from within to reform them? From government to finance to education, history is full of rebels and reformers - some who burned the old order to the ground, others who reshaped it from the inside. But which approach actually works? In this debate, radical disruptors go head-to-head with patient reformers to uncover what it really takes to change a broken system - and whether we’re better off lighting the match or picking up the tools.