Ageing Australia Strategic Innovation Program

Unleash your creative genius! We invite you to bring along your most important organisational challenge and solve it during this two-day, in-person program. Working with a small group of thought leaders, you will acquire world-leading innovation skills, realise new opportunities, collaborate with like-minded peers while solving intractable challenges.

The Strategic Innovation Program is based on the latest neuroscience and creativity research, introducing world-leading innovation skills to the aged care sector and allowing leaders to completely re-imagine ways of working and what is possible.

The programs are impact-focused, meaning you can solve a significant challenge for your organisation while acquiring the skills to drive strategic innovation simultaneously.

By the end of the program, you have:

Acquired world-leading strategic innovation skills that can be applied immediately.
Worked in a small group on challenges that matter most to you and your organisation, with personalised attention from a world-leading expert.
Created an implementation-ready pilot to test and refine your idea, ensuring its impact and sustainability.
Learned to craft a compelling narrative to gain buy-in from your leadership team.
Built lasting connections with a network of like-minded leaders.

Why you need to attend

Innovation genius: your creative problem-solving skills are about to become a little unnatural with a playbook that allows you to choose the innovation strategy that will produce the best results.
Choose your own adventure: don’t be reliant on design thinking alone when you can develop fluency in eight methods, creating your desired future state.
Impact: move the dial on something important by choosing a strategic challenge that requires innovative thinking for immediate impact.

Strategic innovation — redesigning home and community care for tomorrow

This two-day, face-to-face program will be held on 13–14 May 2025 at Novotel Darling Harbour in Sydney.

If you are a leader seeking spectacular change, rather than incremental business improvement, then this program is for you.

This program will empower you to reimagine possibilities and solve your most pressing challenges with a focus on the Support at Home Program.

Join executives, senior leaders and experts to embrace innovation in opportunities that matter to you during this transition, such as employee experience, consumer value proposition, sustainable care and services models.

This is not two days out of your business – it’s two days of intense collaboration, skills acquisition and problem-solving that will have an immediate impact on your organisation.

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to futureproof your organisation and to drive meaningful change.

Program cost

Cost	Ageing Australia member	Non-member
1 participant	$2,750 incl. GST	$3,575 incl. GST

I needed this challenge of think differently to open my thinking up to possibilities

I really enjoyed learning different frameworks and the neuroscience elements to the content

This was the best workshop I’ve attended for my professional development. I’m leaving with new skills that are so highly applicable to my role and career. It has also given me a new strategic direction for my major projects. Excited to get back to the office and dive in!

About the facilitator

Paul Hawkins founded Crazy Might Work in Antarctica in 2015, on a mission to bring learnings from frontiers like space to the workplace. Today, Crazy Might Work (CMW) is the leading provider of the Four-Dimensional Leadership Program used by NASA. CMW is also the strategic innovation partner of the Public Sector Network and Ageing Australia. Before launching Crazy Might Work, Paul worked in over 20 countries, on everything from mergers and

acquisitions to global shared services. He chairs the Board of a Community Services not-for-profit and is a sought-after keynote speaker on the subjects of human and artificial intelligence, innovation and leadership. Paul is a skilled master of ceremonies and moderator with formal qualifications in education, business and innovation. He has accreditations in neuroscience and appreciative inquiry and a pending PhD in breakthrough innovation.

A tailored solution

The Strategic Innovation Program is more than a training event, it’s an investment in your organisation’s future and can be tailored specifically for your board or executive team.

Does your organisation want to rethink traditional ways of working and go well beyond compliance? To achieve this, innovative thinking must become a core capability, with a common language, understanding of what innovation is, and the confidence to do it.

Using the Leading4Breakthrough® innovation methodology, the program will enhance innovation capability across your leadership group and provide an opportunity to work on strategic challenges that are meaningful for your organisation. You and your leadership team will:

Create several pilot concepts that are ready for prioritisation and testing.
Acquire a range of world-class innovation skills that can be used repeatedly in service delivery, whenever and wherever fresh thinking is required.
Have the opportunity to test preliminary ideas with others, sharing insights gathered from those conversations and consolidate feedback into a pilot design ready for testing and validation.