“KAA is excited to announce the launch of our new transformation hub, Chrysalis, to elevate the way we achieve positive and lasting outcomes for children, families, and communities. Chrysalis will be a team of people who are focused on helping KAA innovate and adapt with agility, pace, and purpose, while supporting our organisational objectives and delivering on our strategy.
KAA’s current Chief Operating Officer (COO), Jamie Hodgson, will transition into the newly created role of divisional Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Chrysalis, and continue to play an active role on the KAA senior executive team.
What does KAA’s transformation look like?
Guided by the principles of human-centred design, Jamie Hodgson will lead the Chrysalis team in building and implementing a framework which explores and integrates key capabilities across the organisation. This includes:
Elevating and embedding the voices of children and young people across KAA
Embracing evidence-based learning
Designing a framework in how we measure our impact
Learning how technology and data can play an important role in how we deliver our services, and
Having sector wide influence in the child and family sector
We remain committed to achieving positive and lasting outcomes for children, families and communities, and Chrysalis will enable us to take the next vital step towards delivering on this purpose now, and into the future.”
Chrysalis is an independent capacity that builds from the Voice of the Child out, we deeply embed this in the organisation and champion this across the system. Chrysalis works to change the system through multiple transformation levers. We do real social innovation, from a place of deep knowledge of the sector and the ability to see it through. We are evidence-based, participatory in every way, design-led in structure and delivery. Chrysalis is a catalyst - for KAA, for kids, for families and for staff. We inspire and enable changemakers and we will build momentum over time, growing our community and those onboard as we go. We demonstrate our wins, learn from our failures, and evidence both.
And Projects worked with Key Assets Australia (KAA) to explore and articulate the value proposition for KAA to build a transformation capacity within their organisation, and how to do so. This Framework is the outcome of a 12-month human-centred design process that involved KAA staff, ELT, the KAA Board, and young people.
CHRYSALIS IMPACT HYPOTHESES
1/ If we listen to the voice of children and young people and learn from their experiences, maximum impact across generations can be achieved.
2/ If KAA uses its position of being engaged at the frontline with services, children, families, carers and frontline workers we can shift systemic Child and Family Wellbeing issues.
3/ If KAA uses its strategic, knowing, deeply embedded, respected position to influence the whole system we can deliver effectively on our organisational goals and commitments.
4/ If you design system responses from the experience of the most vulnerable, this will provide an optimal enabling service for all other children and families.
5/ If we utilise place-based and participatory approaches to decision making and service delivery we can create increased outcomes and significantly higher impact.
6/ If KAA faces into the deep systemic complexity and uses our unique cultural traits of intelligence, teams, trying things out and non arbitrary capability we can create a significant difference to influence the whole system (and other systems) through communities and partnerships.
Chrysalis will impact the system through:
System level interventions that are designed to directly impact the system
Cumulative effect of working at different intervention points over time will impact the system from various angles and levels
Chrysalis as an entity influencing KAA and the system through effective initiative implementation, presence, and influence across the system.