Local Government Managers Australia (WA Division), Case Study

When Local Leaders Need More Than Policy They Need Perspective

Local Government Managers Australia (WA Division) engaged Morris to speak at a critical moment for local leadership. Communities were demanding more visibility, faster action, and future-ready decision-making. But councils were often caught between reactive governance and outdated planning models. What LGMA WA needed was clarity not from inside the system, but from just far enough outside to see it whole.

Morris delivered a keynote that reframed local government from service delivery to ecosystem orchestration. He named what others wouldn’t: shrinking trust, overlapping mandates, invisible innovation, and the slow erosion of future capacity. More importantly, he offered a path forward. His session explored emerging models of citizen engagement, digital delivery, generational expectation shifts, and the leadership skillsets local managers will need next.

Shift: From compliance-driven caretakers to strategic convenors of local resilience and innovation.

The result? A new language for future-readiness across local government giving managers not just awareness, but tools to lead their communities with confidence in a world moving faster than consensus.