“ ProGov is about making the business of government as professional as possible; realising the potential of government at every level to excel through higher skills, leadership, better policy and effective operations.”

— Roderick Crawford, Editor of Parliamentary Brief

About ProGov

ProGov provides a team of eminent experts in policy and public administration drawn mostly but not entirely from the leading academic centres and the senior ranks of the civil service.

ProGov provides professional government services in three inter-linking areas:

  • skills: skill audits, course and material creation, teaching — face-to-face and online — and facilitated learning workshops;
  • policy: in amost every subject — local and national, domestic and foreign — delivered through our policy centres of expertise;
  • consultancy that helps you discover the problems and find the solutions to effective delivery.

ProGov also provides thought-leader articles on a range of issues relating to public sector reform.

The ProGov executive team co-ordinates our key courses and ensures the highest standards of content and teaching.

ProGov People

“ The mark of a professional civil service is having at hand a number of informed policy choices for any given scenario. The key to this is a strong, internationally-informed knowledge base.”

— Mark Evans, Director of the Institute of Governance, ANZSOG

“ Those who lead public sector organisations have the capacity to innovate by listening to all their stakeholders and properly evaluating their responses.”

— Richard Common, Senior Research Fellow in Public Management, Manchester Business School

“ Few people are born leaders — most have to learn how to acquire the skills that make them effective managers and communicators. Good public sector management is about leading teams”

— Andrew Massey, Professor of Public Administration, University of Exeter

“ Any idiot can make a decision, or design a policy. The real challenge is developing the capacity to actually implement the decision.”

— Wayne Parsons, Profesor of Public Policy, Queen Mary, University of London

“ Learning online can be as engaging and effective as in any classroom, with the advantages of flexible timing and interaction with international participants”

— Ellen Roberts, director of the e-Masters in Public Policy and Management at the University of York