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id: "news:how-to-be-a-public-sector-leader"
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title: "Episode 3: How to Be a Public Sector Leader with Seth Harris"
url: "https://innovate-us.org/comms/how-to-be-a-public-sector-leader"
date: "2025-06-24"
authors: ["Jessica Silverman"]
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licence: "CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), as stated on innovate-us.org"
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# Episode 3: How to Be a Public Sector Leader with Seth Harris

By Jessica Silverman · 24 June 2025

In this episode of the InnovateUS podcast, we discuss the traits and skills often associated with leadership with [⁠Seth Harris⁠](https://burnes.northeastern.edu/people/seth-harris/), Former Acting Secretary of Labor, Former Deputy Assistant to the President, Professor and Senior Fellow at The Burnes Center for Social Change.

Listeners will learn some tools for assessing whether they would be a good public-sector leader.

Check out the recording of Seth's workshop session [⁠here⁠](https://innovate-us.org/should-you-be-a-public-sector-leader).

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Original page: https://innovate-us.org/comms/how-to-be-a-public-sector-leader · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), as stated on innovate-us.org