What If Government Loved You? with Thea Snow

Thea Snow is one of those people I love talking to because I always leave our conversation feeling a little more grounded and wise. At the time of this recording, Thea was Director at the Centre for Public Impact for Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. She has since stepped back from that role and is taking time to enjoy life, reflect, and explore what comes next. In this conversation, we cover a lot of ground: local empowerment, the changing role of public servants, how expertise is shifting, what AI might mean for government and citizen interaction, and how we prepare public institutions for what is coming. But the question that stayed with me most was one Thea posed: what would it look like if government loved you? It's a provocative question. We don't ever think of government this way, but what if we did? This is part of a series I am doing where I sit down with some of the people who inspire me the most in the field of public sector innovation to get their thoughts on the future of government.