Skip to content

Dreaming Big – where playfulness meets performance - Adrian Clutterbuck - Episode 201

November 1, 2026 · 19 min

Show notes

Join Adrian Clutterbuck,Executive Director Strategy and Transformation, Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service as he opens an honest, unpolished account of building an innovation climate at Children's Health Queensland. At its centre is the Imagination Fund: 303 staff ideas, 20 funded, and a clear lesson that the money was never the point. He shares what worked - an asthma model of care that cut ED returns by 50% on under $30k, and an AI scribe now scaling to 2,000+ clinicians - alongside the harder questions: how you run experiments in systems built for control, who pays for AI at scale, and why leaders need the patience to sit in the messy middle. Permission, it turns out, is scarcer than funding.

Adrian Clutterbuck, Executive Director Strategy and Transformation, Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service For more great insights head to www.PublicSectorNetwork.co

All episodes of Public Sector Podcast

Settings

Display

Language

Decides which stations you see first on the home page.

History

Recently played stations and episodes and your latest searches are only stored in this browser.

Notifications

A short notice when a podcast you follow has a new episode. Turn off single podcasts with the bell on their page.

Account

Save favorites – in the app and on the website.

Keyboard shortcuts

/
Open search
Space
Play or pause
← →
In the player: back 15 s, forward 30 s (episodes) · in a row: next tile
↑ ↓
In a row: target within the tile
Home / End
In a row: first or last tile
Esc
Close window or menu
?
This overview
Now playing

Go to station page

Play next

    Add episodes with “Play next” – they play after the current episode.