Leadership is not separate from management, research or education.
A framework and an ongoing programme of work on how boards, executives and universities think about, appoint and support senior leaders, particularly in academic health-sciences settings.
One system, not four.
The prevailing model in universities, health services and aged-care organisations treats leadership, management, research and education as four separate domains, each with their own leaders, budgets and metrics. The argument here is that they are mutually constitutive: what happens in one shapes what is possible in the others.
The practical implication is for the way boards, executives and universities appoint, support and evaluate their most senior leaders, particularly when the four domains are treated as one system rather than four separate ones.
See the Insights page for the underlying peer-reviewed paper and related publications.
LEAD-HEALTH.
LEAD-HEALTH is the ongoing research and advisory programme that grew out of this work. Its component parts are set out below.
Leadership
The senior leadership behaviours and appointments that shape culture, quality and workforce sustainability.
Education
The learning architecture that develops leaders, clinicians and researchers over a career, not just at induction.
Academic integration
How research, teaching and service integrate rather than compete in academic health-sciences settings.
Design
The organisational design decisions, structure, roles, reporting, that either enable or block integrated leadership.
Health system context
The specific regulatory, workforce and demographic context in which each academic health-sciences organisation operates.
Theory and evidence
The underlying leadership, organisational and health-services research evidence base, treated as living, not fixed.
Three ways boards and universities put LEAD-HEALTH to work.
Board conversations
A structure for board conversations about senior appointments, executive risk and organisational design, moving beyond generic leadership frameworks.
Curriculum scaffolding
A curriculum scaffold for postgraduate programmes in health leadership, nursing management and health-professions education.
Executive briefings
A short briefing format, 30–45 minutes, for executive teams considering how they think about leadership for the year ahead.
Interested in a LEAD-HEALTH briefing or masterclass?
The framework is delivered as board briefings, executive masterclasses and university programme design engagements. Start with a short conversation.