Today’s guest is Jonathan Werran

Jonathan has extensive experience in communications and journalism. After five years as a reporter, commentator and features editor for The Municipal Journal, in 2015 he became the first strategic communications officer for the District Councils’ Network.
 
 Prior to The MJ, he edited an online government property and public estate magazine and helped run communications and marketing for anti-poverty charity Elizabeth Finn Care.  He began his career in online publishing for the public service professional and developed the ‘Wired-Gov’ service for the better digital repackaging and redistribution of central government press releases before founding a small business to government consultancy which among other services helped pioneer the first UK public sector reverse auction.

In this truly inspirational episode we will discuss Jonathan's 

• Early life and education 
• First Job 
• Entry and Experience in Online Publishing
• Entrepreneur journey with Municipal Journal
• Localis career - Community value charter, Locally led economic development, Neo localism 
• Key achievements 
• 3 things not many people know about him 
• First reaction hearing Covid19 lockdown and subsequent approach
• Adaptation to new normal 
• Advice to people wanting to pursue leadership career 
• One thing he wish he had known early in his career
• One kind or thoughtful thing someone did to him
• Kindest person he knows
• Best piece of advice he has received
• Biggest lesson life has taught him

Few Random Questions 

• As a child, what did you wish to become when you grew up?
• What trait do you like the most about yourself?
• What was the best year of your life? Why?
• When you are having a bad day, what do you do to make yourself feel better?
• Share one funniest, one silliest and one wackiest status you have put up on a social networking site. 
• What random stranger has had the biggest impact on your life? 
• What’s something you’ve tried, that you’ll never, ever try again?
• What would you do if you were the last person on this earth?

Key nuggets

My father is a civil servant
I should be an historian
Online publishing in the dot com era
I believe in the power of conviction  - If you think something it can be done
Be sincere with life
People become the view point of the institution
We need greater respect between local leaders and central leaders
If we resolve the personal we can shift the organisational
Good suppliers value good relationships
Services are delivered for people
Public service is something done to you
Let commissioners of public service make the best decisions
Understand complexity and manage complexity
Resolve personality
Local self sufficiency will be important post covid19 world
We saw a centralised approach to manage the crisis
Not using local government for track and trace is a lost opportunity
Sometime perseverance is victory sometime not being defeated is victory 
Eating is a communal or shared gesture
I expect my children to say I am a listening dad and interesting dad
You must always have debt of gratitude to your parents
Advice is very good if its short
Do yourself some justice
Essentially local government works on the dark
Be more sincere
Cartels are bad regardless they are local, regional or national
Best years are always to come
All proble

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