Penny Hagen

Dr. Penny Hagen assists organisations, teams and communities to take a systems-orientated approach to wellbeing. Working across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand Penny supports cross sector teams and communities to respond to complex social issues by connecting policy and evidence to the lived realities and aspirations of communities. Penny has a PhD in participatory design and her work integrates approaches from wellbeing, health, design, youth development, systems and evaluation disciplines. Penny is currently the Director of The Auckland Co-design Lab (The Lab), a unique learning and innovation collaboration between local and central government focused on design for equity and intergenerational wellbeing. The Lab builds public sector capability and capacity for more localised and complexity-informed approaches to wellbeing, including shifting what and how we track and ‘measure’.