Jeff Zlonis is excited by the improvement in people’s lives that can be achieved by redesigning old bureaucratic systems! He became committed to the use of designing for the common good when he saw the valuable results it produced while he was working as a government leader (State of Minnesota) and managing an international consultancy (The Public Strategies Group). In forty years from criminal justice to health to education to child welfare to finance, Jeff has experienced how redesign of systems can create increased value for people.
David Osborne
David Osborne is the author or co-author of five books on public sector reform, including Reinventing Government, Banishing Bureaucracy, and The Reinventor’s Fieldbook. A senior partner at the Public Strategies Group consulting firm for 20 years, he is now directing a project on Reinventing America’s Schools at the Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington D.C. think tank. His book of the same name will be published in 2017 by Bloomsbury Publishers.
Tim Reardon
Tim Reardon is a strategic, respected entrepreneurial leader who specializes in identifying the core purpose and potential of individuals, organizations and communities. Tim is a skilled facilitator and has a track record of bringing people from diverse perspectives together to work effectively on a common goal. Tim guides organizations and community groups though periods of intense conflict and transition by incorporating a theory of Adaptive Leadership and a deep understanding of the natural impact change has on human beings and the natural resistance to change. He brings a wealth of experience in government, nonprofit, corporate, health care and educational organizations as well as grass-roots community groups.
Connie Nelson
Connie Nelson is passionate about using design to improve outcomes for people -- people who are to be benefitted by public purpose organizations. Since 1994, Connie has participated in or led over 30 Labs to rethink areas as diverse as property taxation, child support payment, older adult self-sufficiency, youth homelessness, and tribal nation sovereignty. Recently, Connie worked with leaders in Oregon to help redesign behavioral health and special education systems, and with leaders in Minnesota to redesign supports for people with developmental disabilities. That design, called “My Life, My Choices,” won a MN Public Policy Achievement Award. Connie is a Partner Emeritus of the former Public Strategies Group.