Tag: Leadership

Join us for our introduction session where you’ll meet the full 2026 cohort and get an insight into your journey ahead. The New Local team will walk you through the […]

10th September, 2025

Coaching • connect • Leadership • next generation • peer learning

The themes for the Next Generation Programme will be shaped by mentees who are nominated to take part. Early next year, mentees will have the opportunity to share with us […]

10th September, 2025

Coaching • connect • Leadership • next generation • peer learning

The themes for the Next Generation Programme will be shaped by mentees who are nominated to take part. Early next year, mentees will have the opportunity to share with us […]

10th September, 2025

Coaching • connect • Leadership • next generation • peer learning

The themes for the Next Generation Programme will be shaped by mentees who are nominated to take part. Early next year, mentees will have the opportunity to share with us […]

10th September, 2025

Coaching • connect • Leadership • next generation • peer learning

The themes for the Next Generation Programme will be shaped by mentees who are nominated to take part. Early next year, mentees will have the opportunity to share with us […]

10th September, 2025

Coaching • connect • Leadership • next generation • peer learning

Our coaching programme brings together the rising stars from councils to collaborate on real-world challenges they encounter in their roles. It’s an invaluable opportunity for professional growth, while also fostering […]

15th July, 2025

Coaching • Leadership • next generation

Jessica Studdert shares four fundamental shifts that are taking local government leadership into new territory and explains why the changing sector landscape demands a common understanding of leadership.

20th March, 2025

Devolution and reorganisation • Leadership • Local government • Strategy and leadership

In a career spanning councils, digital agencies and central government, TPXimpact’s Ben Unsworth has been at the forefront of reshaping local government. We speak to him about why councils are […]

19th March, 2025

Design Thinking • Digital • Leadership • Local government • Strategy and leadership

What does it take to lead in local government today? What qualities, skills, and mindsets are needed to navigate the choppy waters surrounding public services? And what old models no […]

13th February, 2025

Leadership • Local government • Strategy and leadership

New Local has appointed local government and public service reform expert Jessica Studdert as its new Chief Executive

19th November, 2024

Leadership • Strategy and leadership

22nd October, 2024

Coaching • Leadership • next generation

22nd October, 2024

Coaching • Leadership • next generation

22nd October, 2024

Coaching • Leadership • next generation

22nd October, 2024

Coaching • Leadership • next generation

Enfield Council’s Grace Murray shares ten pointers for community-powered leadership.

5th September, 2024

Community Power • Leadership • Public Services • Strategy and leadership

New Local Chair Katie Kelly talks to Shaheen Warren from our practice team ahead of our brand-new Radical Leaders event in September. Expect topics from leadership icons to Damascene moments and finding courage through collaboration.

29th July, 2024

Community Power • Leadership • Local government • Public Services • Strategy and leadership

Kath O'Dwyer has spent the last 40 years making her mark in public service, most lately as the chief executive of St Helens Council. Picking questions at random, she talks life outside work, inspirational quotes, and why she's a...

22nd July, 2024

Community engagement • Leadership • Leadership Lucky Draw • Local government • Northern England • Strategy and leadership

Kathy O'Leary is the Chief Executive of Stroud in Gloucestershire. We dig into Kathy's leadership secrets as she picks questions at random from our lucky draw - from how her upbringing shaped her, to what she most regrets about...

15th May, 2024

Community Power • Leadership • Leadership Lucky Draw • Strategy and leadership

Radical Leaders has now happened! If you are interested in hearing about similar events, please sign up to our mailing list. 19-20 September 2024Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, London We’ve […]

26th April, 2024

Leadership • Local government • Strategy and leadership

Adam Lent reflects on New Local’s fourth Radical Leadership session with local government leaders.

4th April, 2024

Community engagement • Community Power • Culture • Leadership • Local government • Public Services • Strategy and leadership

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored looks at the kind of leadership skills needed in councils today.

4th April, 2024

Culture • Leadership • Local government • Skills • Strategy and leadership

As Depute Chief Executive of Scotland's East Aryshire council, Katie Kelly was a leading part of some of the most radical power sharing done by any UK council. Now as Chair of New Local, she takes a random pick...

14th March, 2024

Community Power • Leadership • Leadership Lucky Draw • Local government • Strategy and leadership

The chief executive of Ealing council takes a chance on our Leadership Lucky Draw, exploring topics from how to get things done, to why Ealing is taking a positive slant on immigration, to how to turn around a negative...

7th March, 2024

Leadership • Leadership Lucky Draw • Local government • Strategy and leadership

Anthony Okereke is the Leader of the Royal Borough of Greenwich. He took on New Local's leadership lucky draw.

29th February, 2024

Leadership • Leadership Lucky Draw • Local government • Politics • Strategy and leadership

The leader of Manchester City Council takes on our Leadership Lucky Draw, answering questions ranging from dream dinner party guests to how her upbringing shaped her.

22nd February, 2024

Leadership • Leadership Lucky Draw • Local government • Manchester • Strategy and leadership

Social entrepreneurs Brendan Martin and Cormac Russell share their take on Adam Lent’s recent blog about radical public service leadership developed with key figures in our network.

20th February, 2024

Community Power • Leadership • Local government • Public Services • Strategy and leadership

We're living in a permacrisis. How should public service leaders adapt to this landscape? We sat down with some of them to come up with a plan.

7th February, 2024

Leadership • Strategy and leadership

A tech engineer by training, Omezzine Khelifa left a life in France to work in the Tunisian transition from dictatorship to democracy. Today she is the executive director of the Apolitical Foundation Accelerator programme, helping equip a new type...

23rd January, 2024

Community Power • International Examples • Leadership • Politics