Healthcare Leadership Excellence Program

Prepare for strategic challenges that leaders in healthcare face

About the Healthcare Leadership Excellence Program

The Healthcare Leadership Excellence Program is designed for senior leaders of public and private institutions and companies in the field of healthcare. Its main objective is to help them prepare for the disruptive future, which healthcare faces globally and in the region of South-East Europe. The program is holistic and covers several dimensions of leadership challenges in a coherent way. The participants will not only gain strategic insight into technological, regulatory, demographic, and other sources of disruption, but also  conceptual and practical advice on how to deal with them, both on organizational and personal levels.

 

Program structure

6-day program delivered in three modules of two days each.

Module 1

  • Leading high-performance teams;
    Prof. Drikus Kriek, IEDC-Bled School
    of Management,
    February 21, 2025
  • Leading self;
    Prof. Pierre Casse, IEDC-Bled School
    of Management,
    February 22, 2025

Module 2

  • Leadership challenges in the healthcare sector, today and tomorrow,
    Prof. Nora Colton, University College London, UK;
    March 27, 2025
  • Impact of technology on leadership in healthcare;
    Prof. Nick Alexander Guldemond,
    Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands,
    March 28, 2025

Module 3

  • Leading in crisis and leading organizational transformation,
    Dr. Nenad Filipović, IEDC-Bled School of Management,
    April 18-19, 2025

Who should attend?

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Senior executives and other senior leaders who are responsible for strategic decision-making within their healthcare organizations

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Academic leaders in medical and health education: deans, directors, and senior faculty of medical and health sciences institutions.

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Healthcare policymakers, Leaders of healthcare NGO / non-profit organizations

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Senior consultants and advisors in healthcare

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Medical directors, senior physicians, and heads of clinical departments

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Senior managers of public and private health insurance companies

Why should I attend?

 Participants will advance their leadership competencies, required for steering their organizations through the promising but demanding future of the healthcare sector. They will benefit from intense interaction with peers as well as representatives of other important stakeholders, contributing not only to a better-rounded view of strategic challenges and possible responses to them but also to strengthening personal networks in the sector. However, the benefits will not only stem from professional discussions but also from insights about own leadership behaviors and patterns of engagement in comparison to best leadership practices in the healthcare sector and beyond. Personal development and growth, as well as replenished energy and engagement focus, are the ultimate benefits of the program.

  • Developing a state-of-the-art understanding of current and expected challenges in the healthcare sector globally and in South-East Europe
  • Getting developmental feedback and setting personal priorities for future development
  • The follow-up support through an alumni community of practice could help participants continue their development and apply their skills post-program on concrete cases
  • Improving three critical dimensions of leadership competencies: leading oneself, leading the core team and
    leading the organization
  • Growing personal network in the healthcare sector
  • Creating a clear focus on the immediate areas of both personal and organizational engagement, as well as the energy to start effective action

Topics covered

LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES IN THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR, TODAY AND TOMORROW

  • Sources of disruption and future trends in healthcare
  • How new developments in the healthcare sector translate into specific leadership challenges

LEADING SELF

  • Leadership profiles and key leadership activities
  • Where do I stand as a leader

LEADING HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAMS

  • Characteristics of high-performing teams
  • Leadership impact on team dynamics

IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON LEADERSHIP IN HEALTHCARE

  • How technology acts as added value in healthcare
  • Technology-related leadership priorities

LEADING IN CRISIS

  • Drivers of successful outcomes in crisis situation
  • Leadership role in crisis

LEADING ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION

  • Redesigning the organizational blueprint
  • Leading transformational change

Lecturers

Nora Colton

Nora Colton

UCL Global Business School, UK

Nora Ann Colton is the Founder and Director of the UCL Global Business School of Health and Professor of Leadership and Management for Healthcare.  She has a health and development economics background with extensive experience in change management and strategic leadership for healthcare.  Prior to this role, she was the UCL Pro-Vice-Provost (Postgraduate Education) and Joint Director of Education at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital.  

She has also been a visiting professor at the School of Public Administration at the University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu, China, and the American University of Beirut. She has held academic appointments at Drew University in the USA and the University of East London. She has also held a post-doctoral position at the Department of Economics at Harvard University.  Her D.Phil. is from St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford.

Her research focuses on leadership and the new health economy, self-selection bias in healthcare leadership roles, and the relationship between senior managers' backgrounds and organisational performance in healthcare.  

Nora is an educationalist with a particular interest in curriculum development and education strategy. She has supervised several doctoral and master's students and taught at the postgraduate level. She is a sought-after executive education trainer and event speaker focusing on strategic leadership for healthcare.

Accreditations of the School