Skills for thriving in today's workplaces
Transform’s Academy programme is a series of workshops delivered every few months, or as requested by clients, covering a variety of topics around the key areas impacting organisations.
In 2025, Cabinet Office and Policy Profession published a landmark report: The Public Design Evidence Review (PDER).
Launched by Georgia Gould MP OBE, the Review is the biggest single piece of research into the role and value of design in the public sector. It shows that design is a key facilitator and enabler of successful end-to-end policy design and delivery, and describes the systemic and organisational factors that can promote the best outcomes by design. Join our "Transform Academy: Making good design work in public sector reform" to hear about how design can enable public sector success.
What to expect
In this session:
- You'll learn how to get set for design success and de-risk complex evolving problems.
- We'll explain how co-design can be an enabler to building trust with citizens and stakeholders.
- We’ll touch on inclusive policy and strategy outcomes by design.
- We'll apply design as a tool to make sense of and tackle wicked problems.
The half-day covers:
- Experience of accessible co-design techniques through case studies and hands-on workshops.
- A chance to tackle design challenges and work them through with peers and our design leads.
- Mapping systems and organising design communities, strengths-based design-thinking and developing accessible, fast-paced design experiments.
Key takeaways:
- Exploring compelling case studies that clarify the value of design in public sector settings.
- Learning how design creates impact at all stages of policy and service creation and delivery.
- Identifying ways to address barriers limiting effective design in their localities.
- Gaining energising direct experience of co-design.
Target audience:
- This immersive half-day academy, aimed at non-designers, will give public sector leaders the chance to learn how design enables policy and public service success (and experience design techniques too).
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