In this special episode of For The Record, Maia Jachimowicz, Vice President of Evidence-Based Policy at Results for America, speaks with Brian Elms and J.B.Wogan about their new book, Peak Performance: How Denver's Peak Academy is saving millions of dollars, boosting morale and just maybe changing the world. (And how you can too!)

Elms is the Director of the Peak Academy and Analytics for the City and County of Denver. Wogan is a staff writer for Governing magazine. The book tells the story of a four-year old municipal program that equips frontline government workers with problem-solving skills that they take back to a wide range of agencies, from Animal Protection to Human Services. The result? About 5,000 employees have received Peak Academy training and used their new skills to save Denver more than $15 million. 

In the conversation, Jachimowicz, Elms and Wogan discuss: 

• the origin story of the Peak Academy
• why innovation isn't government's default setting
• the need to measure impacts beyond cost savings
• the importance of empathy in innovation  
• how Peak might outlast its founders and perpetuate innovation, and
• why Peak only brings process improvement to offices where it's wanted

The book is available on Governing.com and through Amazon.