• How to motivate your team to embrace change
• Overcome the unique leadership and management challenges of the public sector
• Do more with less

The public sector poses unique leadership and management challenges at the best of times. Now, with Britain’s public services under enormous pressure, how will you step up to the challenge of leading through this change?

Leadership and management should be a common currency throughout the sectors: public, private and charitable. However, the drivers and accountabilities tend to be more complex in the public sector; the presence of Ministers and the dominance of the Treasury can produce complicated dynamics, restricting freedom and leading to confusion about who is responsible for what.

A UK Civil Servant for 30 years, Sir Nicholas Montagu led the Inland Revenue through the greatest change in its 200 year history. He will describe the key challenges he faced and how he confronted them; tackling issues such as bureaucracy, working with limited time and resources, and facilitating leadership at all levels.

About Sir Nicholas Montagu

As a high flying civil servant, under both Conservative and Labour administrations, Nick Montagu has worked on some of the most vital and controversial issues of the day, including pensions, rail privatisation and public sector reform. In 1997 he was appointed Chairman of the Inland Revenue, which he led through the greatest changes in its 200-year history, spearheading the drive to make it more customer-focused.

Since retiring in 2004, Nick has developed a range of business interests: he is currently an adviser to PricewaterhouseCoopers, a Director of two pensions companies, and Chairman of Aviva's With Profits Committee. He writes and presents extensively and is a nationally-recognised authority on diversity, for which he had Civil Service-wide responsibility. Nick is Chair of Council at Queen Mary, University of London.