Full Name
Laura Lee Langley
Job Title
Deputy Minister of the Office of Citizen-Centered Approaches
Company
Nova Scotia Government
Speaker Bio
Laura Lee Langley is the Deputy Minister of the Office of the Nova Scotia Premier, Deputy Minister of Treasury Board, Clerk of the Executive Council, Public Service Commissioner, and
Head of the Nova Scotia Public Service.
After more than 15 years as a journalist, she began her decades-long career in the public service. Laura Lee has demonstrated success in engaging employees while working in complex
systems, tackling wicked problems, and driving a whole-of-government, citizen centered approach to developing public policy. She has an interest in transforming how we work in the
Westminster model of government while advancing the modernization of the public service.
Laura Lee is a sought-after speaker on leadership, workplace communication and leading in complex systems, and is a certified facilitator in understanding and seeing organizational
systems. She has a Master of Public Administration from Dalhousie University (2002), and a Master of Arts in Leadership from Royal Roads University (2015).
Laura Lee has served as a board member for various professional and community organizations and is a known advocate for diversity and inclusion. She has been recognized by the Nova
Scotia Human Rights Commission as a Champion of the Workplace, and in 2018 she was recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women as a strategic and engaging public sector leader.
Head of the Nova Scotia Public Service.
After more than 15 years as a journalist, she began her decades-long career in the public service. Laura Lee has demonstrated success in engaging employees while working in complex
systems, tackling wicked problems, and driving a whole-of-government, citizen centered approach to developing public policy. She has an interest in transforming how we work in the
Westminster model of government while advancing the modernization of the public service.
Laura Lee is a sought-after speaker on leadership, workplace communication and leading in complex systems, and is a certified facilitator in understanding and seeing organizational
systems. She has a Master of Public Administration from Dalhousie University (2002), and a Master of Arts in Leadership from Royal Roads University (2015).
Laura Lee has served as a board member for various professional and community organizations and is a known advocate for diversity and inclusion. She has been recognized by the Nova
Scotia Human Rights Commission as a Champion of the Workplace, and in 2018 she was recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women as a strategic and engaging public sector leader.
