Social Policy Entrepreneurship: Changing the World One Big Idea at a Time
Is it the power of the big idea or the ability of the individual leading the change to make big things happen?
Explore the idea, the disruption, the strategy and politics of innovation and talk with leaders who have made it happen. Consider the keys to a policy entrepreneur: able to spot problems, prepared to take risks to promote innovative approaches to problem solving, the ability to organize others to help turn policy ideas into public policy.
The big takeaway--knowing YOU CAN MAKE A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE THROUGH SOCIAL POLICY
A Study Group led by IOP Fellow
Governor Bev Perdue
Wednesday 4-5:30 p.m.
EACH SESSION WILL CONCLUDE WITH 15 MINUTES OF NO HOLDS BARRED GENERAL QUESTIONING ABOUT POLITICS, PUBLIC SERVICE, THE DAY'S TOPIC, OR YOUR TOPIC
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February 20
No Holds Barred: A Discussion of Politics and Policy with Governor Perdue
In this first Session of the Study Group we will explore the role the political climate, the big idea, and the individual leader have on successful social entrepreneurship. Is it necessary with big ideas to have an initial launch that often does not succeed (ie, health care over fifty years, climate change, military service for all people, ) or does the individual leader cause the immediate success (Facebook or Google). Discuss the ability of policy changes to improve or harm the lives of others. In addition, can innovation be the driver for global social change (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation}.
Is it the big idea or the power of the individual leader or organization that causes social innovation to take root? Finally, can social policy innovations cause economic fallout, or negative massive disruption of existing systems?
February 27
Change: Ready or Not, Change Happens
A discussion with Michael Horn, the co-founder with Harvard's Clayton Christensen, of Innosight Institute and the author of books and articles on the theory of disruption and inevitable change. Innosight is a think tank devoted to applying the theories of disruptive innovation to problems in the social sector. Dr. Horn will explore with us the inevitability of change to social systems, policy issues, and commercial products by big ideas and big thinkers. Think about the stages of innovation and the length of the timeline between the rotary telephone and the IPhone 5, the Edsel and the Prius, and the exponential speed of change in the 21stCentury anchored with technology. And, we will probe what happens when an elected or appointed leader thinks status quo and the disruptive innovator thinks change. Good over Evil? You decide!
March 6
The Nuts and Bolts of Innovation in a Bureaucracy: Hard Ball Politics
A discussion with Marc Farinella, a former Governor Chief of Staff, a successful Democratic strategist and policy expert, and now the Chief Operating Officer, The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, about the reality of major change in public policy at the state or national level. Ask questions about the inevitable winners and losers in the proposed change, the role of lobbyists as proponents and opponents of any change and the role of organizations and grass roots groups in change discussions. Explore the impact of money and the media and the Citizens case on the innovation playing field How does all this policy change really happen and is the gain worth the pain. Marc will provide us with a NO HOLDS BARRED discussion that will leave you thinking. He will also respond to any political or media questions or concerns you may have.
March 13
A Portfolio of Energy Solutions for America and the World: How One Corporate Leader Signed Up for the Battle to Change the Energy Landscape
A discussion with Mr. Jim Rogers, an outspoken global presence in any discussion of innovation and change in the energy industry, a major proponent of an energy portfolio who also serves as the President and CEO of America's largest public utility, Duke Energy. How did a man responsible to hundreds of thousands of rate payers and investors; a leader in a giant energy company decide to publically buy into the portfolio of energy sources with an emphasis on renewables? How did he sell his leadership to his Board and to other major traditional energy providers in America and around the globe? Explore in a NO HOLDS BARRED opportunity energy issues and policy leadership with a policy innovator. Fracking, drilling, wind, coal, nuclear, solar--
March 28
Even an Institution Like Education Can Be Changed Through Bold Policy Entrepreneurship
A discussion with Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan (invited/not confirmed), about the major changes to educational policy, from the high chair to the rocking chair, that is possible with bold ideas and the ability to lead. This session will provide an opportunity to explore with a national expert the reality of policy changes driven by technology, by parental choice and consumerism principles, by the global need for better results, and by commercialization of the institution. Explore the politics under girding this change from organized labor groups to conservative religious groups as we explore the challenges that century old institutions find themselves facing.
April 3
The Right on Policy Entrepreneurship
A discussion with Mr. Art Pope, one of America’s leading conservatives who has led an effort to transform North Carolina's and America's political, social, and economic landscape. This session will provide us with a unique opportunity to interact with a leading Conservative who funded a major policy think tank and spent a decade building the social and political structures necessary for focused and successful change in one Southern state. A policy innovator who strategically drove a big idea to fruition and then entered the American stage to join with other believers in conservative principles. This Session is a NO HOLDS BARRED with a man with a big idea and a plan for implementation and success…lessons to be learned this day.
April 8
From Health Care for All to the 24oz Soft Drink: The Opportunity to Lead in a Period of Major Health Care Policy Change
A discussion with a giant innovator in social public policy, The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services. The Secretary will discuss her role and leadership in the transformation of America's primary health care access system through the Affordable Care Act and reflect on the impact of the times--the political environment of disenchantment and mistrust of government, the disdain for rules and regulations, the reality of austerity in a time of major policy implementation. Secretary Sebilius will reflect on the national move toward wellness and individual health care responsibility and will engage on the challenges surrounding women's health care.
This session is a NO HOLDS BARRED opportunity to interact with a social entrepreneur at the center of change in health care, a practical leader who also has served as the Governor of Kansas.
April 17
The Keys to the Governor's Mansion: The Challenges and Rewards of Women in Public Elective Office
This final session of our Study Group will focus on women in politics from the perspective of a national leader in the recruitment and training of women candidates, Barbara Lee and from my perspective as a candidate and office holder. There will be a NO HOLDS BARRED discussion about the challenges of decision making and the circumstances which tend to impact female candidates, about the election process as it impacts a female candidate, the fundraising, and most important the service as a woman elected to office.
The impact on family and personal life and the ability to decide when to get in and when to get out will be fodder for questions.