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GoodLives GM is a strategic partnership between Innovation Unit and Greater Manchester Combined Authority, aiming to empower, equip and connect Greater Manchester leaders, practitioners and communities to work together in new ways to make good lives for all possible.

Since January 2023 GoodLives GM has been supporting the Greater Manchester workforce to grow a culture of prevention and reduce structural inequalities by:

  • Supporting confident, capable, connected leaders
     
  • Sharing evidence, insights, and inspiring ways forward
     
  • Growing new alliances for change
"In this room, there are no hierarchies and no roles. There are just people exploring together what it's going to take to shift the system. It's giving me a lot of energy to take back into my work."
Bronwyn Raper, Programme Manager, GMCA

Through delivering three cohorts of a flagship Leadership Collaborative Programme, running successful Action Learning Sets and Learning Sprints, growing collaborative systems of Early Family Help, and growing the Live Well movement, we have been learning about four key new ways of working, that can make good lives for all possible:

  1. Leadership that reaches across places
     
  2. Equal working partnerships between voluntary and statutory service
     
  3. Cross-sector, multi-disciplinary teams
     
  4. Trust in communities, and their leadership of change

We know that these ways of working exist in pockets across Greater Manchester, our mission is to grow them. 

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"The GoodLivesGM approach to leadership development as a multi sector team is really rare - and it is a make or break necessity to resolve the problems we’re trying to address."
Warren Heppolette, Chief Officer for Strategy & Innovation, NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care

Resources

GoodLives GM Brochure

Developing the GM workforce to deliver good lives for all

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Project team
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Sarah Gillinson
Joint Chief Executive
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Cath Dillon
Director of Innovation
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Julie Temperley
Senior Associate
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Siobhan Edwards
Senior Associate
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Emma Price
Innovation Consultant and Service Designer
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Laura Edwards
Innovation Consultant
See also
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Combined Authorities

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Project

Live Well: Ensuring great everyday support across Greater Manchester

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Project

Early Family Help: Trailblazer programme