Inclusive leadership is key to driving innovation efforts in today’s workplace, ensuring sustainable growth and organisational competitive advantage. What is demanded of leaders today? What characterises inclusive leadership that unleashes the potential of a diverse workplace? And why is inclusion necessary for innovation?

Worldwide, healthcare organisations are grappling with a number of areas across a wide range of jurisdictions. From an ageing population to rising healthcare costs and issues related to increased mental health the challenges remain quite similar.

One challenge and perhaps the biggest, relates to the healthcare workforce. Alongside recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, the global fight for talent remains the most challenging issue internationally for healthcare leaders. What needs to change and how can the global fight for talent in healthcare be addressed?

Together with the International Hospital Federation’s Women in Leadership Forum, we recently hosted an event to help raise awareness and encourage an interchange of experience about career progression into senior leadership roles. This was a wide-reaching forum providing unique insights and personal experiences on overcoming the challenges of being a woman in a position of leadership, discussing topics such as: barriers to entry, structural inequalities leveraging opportunities, allies and sponsorship.

Frank McKenna, Global MD of our Healthcare practice shares perspectives from his recent travels to the Middle East, struck by the centrality of digital transformation to the region’s healthcare ambitions.

In the wake of the pandemic clinical talent will be looking for employers that show leadership in supporting staff health and well-being.

Global MD of Alumni’s Healthcare and Academia practice Frank McKenna, discusses how the pandemic and its aftermath have raised expectations of leaders in the NHS to new heights.

Global MD of Alumni’s Healthcare and Academia practice Frank McKenna, discusses how the pandemic and its aftermath have raised expectations of leaders in the NHS to new heights.