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Alison Guthrie-Wren

HR Deputy Director (Organisational Capability) at UK Department for Business and Trade; systems thinking practitioner and executive coach with 30 years of senior HR/L&D experience in UK public sector.

Jul 22, 2026

12:42
and
12:42
you start where you can with this stuff.
12:45
You know, I mean, the civil service has a system thinking interest group.
12:50
We have a quite strong network of people who are interested in working more systemically in systemic practice.
12:56
We've got a whole range of departments who are doing some work on that and who are kind of taking systems thinking and running with it.
13:06
Co-chair a working group with externals to look at how we can best support government in doing some of that work and looking systemically kind of across the system about how do we help and how do we input resources.
13:21
where things are really difficult.
16:45
And I think just looking back and really thinking about, you know, where can we have that starting point?

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