Members Stories
Esther Dontoh
General Manager – Blood, Cells and Cancer Directorate, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
Esther shares her reflections of what she learnt from the Senior Leadership Development Programme, and how this has helped her to think beyond leading her service and within her hospital, and bringing her team along with her.
Dr Rajnish Saha
Clinical Lead Critical Care Medicine The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Raj shares his reflections of how his organisation’s investment in its leaders has brought about a positive improvement in patient outcomes. At a personal level, he talks about the changes he’s seen in himself and his change of focus to people, relationships and interactions following his attendance on the Senior Leadership Development Programme. He talks about how this has impacted on his team and contributed to the improvement of his service.
Dr Robert Sherwin
Associate Medical Director and Consultant Obstetrician, Whittington Hospital
Robert talks about the impact that in depth feed-back he received from peers, faculty and his direct observations during video reviews on programmes has had in developing his awareness of his interactions with his team and confidence to lead in more senior roles. He also shares the value he found from the leadership experience, rigour and can-do attitude of military members of faculty.
Dr Caz Sayer
Chair, Haverstock GP Federation
In Caz’s interview, she reflects on how she had drawn on her experience at Staff College in her subsequent years as a CCG Chair. She talks about how the focus on developing awareness of behaviours had enabled her to work more effectively and collaboratively with others in a new systems leadership role.
Mr Ajit Abraham
Staff College Principal, Consultant HPB and Trauma Surgeon and Co-Chair Inclusion Board, Barts Health, Undergraduate Dean, Barts Health Medical School
Ajit talks about the potency of the Staff College approach in providing a safe environment for leaders to test their leadership with the support and objective, triangulated feedback from expert faculty, peers, self-reflection and video reviews. He talks about how these help leaders to understand where they are now in order that they can go on to manage themselves and lead their teams better, within the service of their mission.
Dr Vikki Mitchell
Divisional Clinical Director for Theatres and Anaesthetics, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH)
Vikki shares her reflections of how attending Staff College helped her to overcome the learned helplessness prevalent for medical leaders and enabled her to develop her confidence and ambitions to lead and influence change in order to improve care for her patients. She talks about how the programme made her consider the importance of accountability and the role leaders have in taking responsibility for and motivating their teams so that everyone feels as though they’re an important cog in the wider machine.