THE HEALTHY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

The Healthy Leadership Academy

In our challenging and changing world, it is easy for leaders to forget to take good care of themselves. Yet all the research confirms that leaders have a major influence on staff wellbeing and wider organisational health:

Leaders have just as much of an impact on people’s mental health as their partner (both 69%) – and even more of an impact than their doctor (51%) or therapist (41%)

Mental Health At Work, Workforce Institute 2023

So, we are launching The Healthy Leadership Academy, to build wellbeing for and through leaders.

At the moment, we are delivering three complementary programmes to mobilise wellbeing culture change across the NHS:

1. A national programme for mid-level NHS Leaders

2. A Local NHS leaders' wellbeing programme, developing internal facilitators to deliver programmes within their organisations

3. A senior NHS leaders’ wellbeing programme, focusing on how Directors can create and support cultures of wellbeing

We also facilitate Wellbeing Leaders’ Communities of Practice and are establishing the NHS’ first Leadership Wellbeing Faculty early in 2024.

Alongside designing and delivering Healthy Leadership programmes, we are actively building a body of research to inform a future publication into how leaders can:

  • Develop the mindset and skillset to stay personally well through the many expectations, projections and privileges of the role

  • Make full use of the leadership behaviours and approaches that create workplace wellbeing

HEALTH AND WELLBEING COACHING

We work with a community of 15 coaches who guide clients to improved leadership wellbeing from an initial ‘wellbeing audit’ through personalised and practical steps to health.

ON BECOMING A LEADER

Our On Becoming a Leader programmes are explicitly designed to strengthen participants wellbeing as they build their increasingly positive leadership impact.

HEALTH AND WELLBEING RETREATS

Working with our partner, Humanum, we are delighted to be able to offer bespoke development programmes, executive coaching and retreats through a range of courses, retreats and one-to-one mentorship, in both the UK and France.