About the Learning set:
Thriving in Transition, facilitated by The HEAD Gardener (Caroline Beardall), whose expertise is perfectly aligned to help leaders and teams succeed and thrive through change and disruption.
A series of four focused action-learning sets with group coaching sessions aimed at supporting Executives who are both managing themselves and others through stress, communication challenges, confidence dips, and change.
Who is this for?
This is for NHS South East Executives and Deputies. Ideal for ICB or other Deputy / Executive Directors who find themselves navigating significant change. Whether supporting others through uncertainty, managing complex team dynamics, or simply needing space to reflect and recharge to lead well during transition
Register your place:
To be eligible you must by an Executive Director or Deputy within a South East ICB. This will be a discreet group. Please note if we have a response larger than the numbers we can accommodate, we will offer places to ensure maximum representation by system, profession and protected characteristics and create a waiting list for future offers
This focussed learning set with group coaching runs for 4 virtual sessions on the following days: Wednesday 4th March, Wednesday 1st April, Wednesday 29th April and Wednesday 20th May 2026 (12:30pm – 2pm).
To register a place, you must be able to attend all days.
If you would like to be a part of this learning set, please REGISTER YOUR INTEREST via the green RSVP ‘Going’ button below
This will be delivered virtually. Please ensure that you can access a confidential quiet space for the duration of the session. The joining instructions, including the meeting room link, will be sent at least one week prior to the session. If your circumstances change and you can no longer attend, please email [email protected].
Our Commitment:
We are committed to making our training as accessible as possible (please see our accessibility page), we are aware that there is more that we can be doing. Please do contact us if there are any reasonable adjustments that we can make to support you to be able to attend this programme by emailing us at [email protected].
About the Facilitator – Caroline Beardall
The programme will be delivered by Caroline Beardall whose career spans from nurse to partner in a global consultancy firm via people and HR leadership roles.
She is trained in neuroscience for change, an executive coach (member of the ICF), Fellow of the CIPD and the Royal Society of Medicine. Others can coach and consult, The Head Gardener grows you in a way that delivers on the fruits of your labours!
About the series:
Thriving in Transition, facilitated by The HEAD Gardener (Caroline Beardall), whose expertise is perfectly aligned to help leaders and teams succeed and thrive through change and disruption.
A five-module interactive series designed to equip leaders with practical tools and techniques to lead confidently during times of change. Focussed on:
- Uprooting: Navigating endings and change
- Growing Beyond Endings: Reframing and reimagining the future
- Nurturing New Horizons: Exploring new options and perspectives
- Cultivating Your Next Chapter: Building networks, confidence and capability
- Blossoming Change: Sustaining performance and wellbeing through transition
Participants will gain a deeper insight, build stronger resilience, and enhance their ability to lead through volatility and ambiguity.
Who is this Series for?
This virtual series is for Senior Leaders across the South East
Book your place:
This series runs for 5 modules on the following days: Tuesday 10th March, Tuesday 31st March, Tuesday 14th April, Tuesday 28th April and Tuesday 12th May 2026, each session is 12:30pm – 2pm. To secure a place, you must be able to attend all days.
If you would like to participate in the series, please book your place via the green RSVP ‘Going’ button below.
The series will be delivered virtually. Please ensure that you can access a confidential quiet space for the duration of the session. The joining instructions, including the meeting room link, will be sent at least one week prior to the first and/or each session. If your circumstances change and you can no longer attend, please email [email protected].
Our Commitment:
We are committed to making our training as accessible as possible (please see our accessibility page), we are aware that there is more that we can be doing. Please do contact us if there are any reasonable adjustments that we can make to support you to be able to attend this programme by emailing us at [email protected].
About the Facilitator – Caroline Beardall
The programme will be delivered by Caroline Beardall whose career spans from nurse to partner in a global consultancy firm via people and HR leadership roles.
She is trained in neuroscience for change, an executive coach (member of the ICF), Fellow of the CIPD and the Royal Society of Medicine. Others can coach and consult, The Head Gardener grows you in a way that delivers on the fruits of your labours!
About the programme:
The aim of the 5-day programme is to give you practical support, and to help you navigate your way through complexity and uncertainty. The programme is designed to provide support to help address the issues we are facing. We’ve all seen meetings where people commit to change, but little happens afterwards. The programme explores why that is using the concept of Immunity to Change—and how to overcome it. It will enable you to build your knowledge, understanding, expertise and connections within and across sectors, and help you try out new ways of thinking and working that can lead to better outcomes for you, your teams and your communities. You will have the opportunity to learn from others in the space, benefit from their experiences and collaborate with peers.
Who is this session for?
This virtual programme is for people inside and outside the NHS, who have an interest in working collaboratively at neighbourhood and place and want to take action to improve health and care for their citizens. We invite participants from Leaders in and beyond health and care across the South East. Anyone driving collaborative working at neighbourhood, place or system level.
Book your place:
This programme runs across 5 days on Wednesday 22nd October, Thursday 20th November, Tuesday 2nd December, Thursday 12th February 2026 and Wednesday 11th March 2026. (10:00am – 12:00pm). To secure a place, you must be able to attend all days.
If you would like to be a part of the second cohort of this programme, please book your place via the green RSVP ‘Going’ button below
The programme will be delivered virtually. Please ensure that you can access a confidential quiet space for the duration of the session. The joining instructions, including the meeting room link, will be sent at least one week prior to the session. If your circumstances change and you can no longer attend, please email [email protected].
Our Commitment:
We are committed to making our training as accessible as possible (please see our accessibility page), we are aware that there is more that we can be doing. Please do contact us if there are any reasonable adjustments that we can make to support you to be able to attend this programme by emailing us at [email protected].
About the Facilitator – Debbie Sorkin
The programme will be delivered by Debbie Sorkin, National Director of Systems Leadership from Leadership Centre. The Leadership Centre is a national charity that has more than 20 years’ experience in strengthening leadership across public services. Founded in 2004, the Centre specialises in strengthening leadership in complex and changing environments and addressing deep-seated issues where there are no immediate or easy answers.
The NHS is committed to addressing the social determinants of health, improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities. Anchor institutions are large public sector organisations which are rooted in place and connected to their communities, such as universities, local authorities, and hospitals and work together with their communities to tackle these challenges. Anchors have significant assets and spending power and are often a significant employer in an area and can consciously use these resources to benefit communities. Traditionally anchors focus on employability, procurement and sustainability strategies and can, when aligned across the ICS partner organisations, contribute significantly to the economic situation and help to reduce health inequalities. It can also contribute to addressing the workforce supply issues across the health and care sector.
To Consider leadership issues and deepen the understanding of anchor institutions and their potential to solve some NHS challenges and also reduce inequalities, this mini masterclass is for all staff nationally, working in the public sector to share, adopt and adapt existing good practice from other anchor institutions.
About the Master class
Public land public values – progressive NHS estates strategies?
Public land should be more than just a commodity. Wherever possible, it should be used to drive social, economic and environmental value and address the wider determinants of health. Nevertheless, land usage and disposal in an NHS context is heavily centralised which presents challenges for the progressive use of land and estates – particularly surplus land. Can we develop local progressive estates strategies? Some places are doing it? What is the art of the possible here?
Book your Place:
Reserve a place via our RSVP booking system below. You will receive the joining instructions for the event 2 weeks before the session.
SELA will retain a record of your name, job role, organisation, band, and contact details on its secure alumni register and contacts database for management information and communications purposes. View our full privacy policy. Although we will be able to see your name and email address upon submission, once extrapolated this data will be anonymised. We appreciate your support in providing this information, which will help us to ensure our leadership development interventions are widely accessible and inclusive.
Should you have any queries, or if your circumstances change and you can no longer attend, please contact [email protected]
The Facilitator
Tom Llyod Goodwin: click here for the facilitator profile.
Questions about the session:
Organiser: Leadership and Lifelong Learning Team
Email: [email protected]
Leading change effectively across complex systems is both an art and a science. It requires a mix of sensitive listening and political and leadership skills, and a strong appreciation of how systems work: what makes them tick, what changes their performance and behaviour, and how to make logical sense of what you are seeing when you investigate and change them.
We have commissioned a series of system working clinics for people who are leading or directly involved in change which extends across more than one organisational boundary.
The clinics will be led by two highly experienced systems practitioners with a breadth of experience in understanding and improving systems, and in developing critical system working skills in others.
The clinics’ focus and topics will be shaped by the participants’ situations; the tutors will explore these with you, and will bring to life relevant principles, methods, tools, tactics and tips for:
- Setting up a system intervention;
- Working productively with differing views;
- Sifting ‘signal’ from ‘noise’ in the system, and knowing what to pay attention to;
- Overcoming resistance – from the system and the people within it;
- Making meaningful change happen;
- Predicting and preventing ‘unintended consequences’;
- Gathering evidence and measuring performance;
- Reaching agreement and moving forward as a system, in collaboration with others.
The clinics will be run along the lines of an action learning session. As such they are limited to 6 participants. Each of the participants will have an opportunity to present their issue/ challenge /area of work and explore with the system experts new approaches, solutions, tips and advice about how to proceed to make their change programme work more effectively. All the participants in the clinic will benefit from exploring their own issues and also listening to the issues and dialogue about other system challenges.
Please email [email protected] if you would like to clarify any details about these clinics.
Please only book if you are confident that you can attend; we need all six participants for the clinic to be an effective learning environment.
Prior to the session, you will be asked to complete a short pre-course reflection to inform the content of the clinic. This piece of work should take no longer than 30 minutes.
Leading change effectively across complex systems is both an art and a science. It requires a mix of sensitive listening and political and leadership skills, and a strong appreciation of how systems work: what makes them tick, what changes their performance and behaviour, and how to make logical sense of what you are seeing when you investigate and change them.
We have commissioned a series of system working clinics for people who are leading or directly involved in change which extends across more than one organisational boundary.
The clinics will be led by two highly experienced systems practitioners with a breadth of experience in understanding and improving systems, and in developing critical system working skills in others.
The clinics’ focus and topics will be shaped by the participants’ situations; the tutors will explore these with you, and will bring to life relevant principles, methods, tools, tactics and tips for:
- Setting up a system intervention;
- Working productively with differing views;
- Sifting ‘signal’ from ‘noise’ in the system, and knowing what to pay attention to;
- Overcoming resistance – from the system and the people within it;
- Making meaningful change happen;
- Predicting and preventing ‘unintended consequences’;
- Gathering evidence and measuring performance;
- Reaching agreement and moving forward as a system, in collaboration with others.
The clinics will be run along the lines of an action learning session. As such they are limited to 6 participants. Each of the participants will have an opportunity to present their issue/ challenge /area of work and explore with the system experts new approaches, solutions, tips and advice about how to proceed to make their change programme work more effectively. All the participants in the clinic will benefit from exploring their own issues and also listening to the issues and dialogue about other system challenges.
Please email [email protected] if you would like to clarify any details about these clinics.
Please only book if you are confident that you can attend; we need all six participants for the clinic to be an effective learning environment.
Prior to the session, you will be asked to complete a short pre-course reflection to inform the content of the clinic. This piece of work should take no longer than 30 minutes.
This masterclass is an Intermediate Level Workshop for Practices/PCNs and ICB Leads delivered in partnership with South East Primary Care Transformation Team and the South East Leadership Academy
The session will cover some practicalities and value around leaders embedding equality, diversity and inclusion principles in the primary care context. The goal is to help you think through a strategy for implementing EDI in primary care in its broader context of often-competing initiatives, perspectives, expectations, policies and politics.
Outcomes
- Review Inclusive Recruitment – looking at your policies are they inclusive, do you do exit interviews, what does your workforce data tell you?
- Looking at data – health inequalities of your population, how can you shape your services when thinking about inclusion.
- Equality Impact Assessment – reviewing your template.
- What are the 9 protected characteristics and your legal responsibilities?
- Connecting to inclusion networks
This session will be repeated three times, 90 minutes each session – please register for the date which suits you:
Who is the session for?
The NHS Leadership Academy provides leadership development for people of all backgrounds and experiences across health and care.
Terms and Conditions
In order to demonstrate best value to patients, the NHS and taxpayers, we need to ensure maximum attendance on leadership development opportunities and events.
Please view our Cancellation Policy as there will be a non-attendance charge to your employer/organisation should you secure a place and subsequently fail to meet any of these commitments.
If you have any questions about the sessions, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected]
Book your Place
Reserve a place via our RSVP booking system below. Although we will be able to see your name and email address upon submission, once extrapolated this data will be anonymised. We appreciate your support in providing this information, which will help us to ensure our leadership development interventions are widely accessible and inclusive.
If the programme is full, please feel free to join the waiting list via the button below. This will help us to understand the demand for our programmes and plan accordingly. You will also be notified when we release new dates.
The session will be delivered virtually.
Please note that this is a pan-regional programme, led by the South West Leadership Academy. Your local leadership academy is coordinating all bookings for your region. Confirmation emails and links to all sessions will be issued by the South West Leadership Academy.
- You will need a webcam and a headset to participate fully.
• The computer will need to have the sound function on so you can hear and speak at the webinar.
• You will need to be connected to the internet for the duration of the webinar.
• We will send an email with details of instructions for the day to all participants, prior to the date.
• Please note: this webinar may be recorded.
This masterclass is an Intermediate Level Workshop for Practices/PCNs and ICB Leads delivered in partnership with South East Primary Care Transformation Team and the South East Leadership Academy
The session will cover some practicalities and value around leaders embedding equality, diversity and inclusion principles in the primary care context. The goal is to help you think through a strategy for implementing EDI in primary care in its broader context of often-competing initiatives, perspectives, expectations, policies and politics.
Outcomes
- Review Inclusive Recruitment – looking at your policies are they inclusive, do you do exit interviews, what does your workforce data tell you?
- Looking at data – health inequalities of your population, how can you shape your services when thinking about inclusion.
- Equality Impact Assessment – reviewing your template.
- What are the 9 protected characteristics and your legal responsibilities?
- Connecting to inclusion networks
This session will be repeated three times, 90 minutes each session – please register for the date which suits you:
Who is the session for?
The NHS Leadership Academy provides leadership development for people of all backgrounds and experiences across health and care.
Terms and Conditions
In order to demonstrate best value to patients, the NHS and taxpayers, we need to ensure maximum attendance on leadership development opportunities and events.
Please view our Cancellation Policy as there will be a non-attendance charge to your employer/organisation should you secure a place and subsequently fail to meet any of these commitments.
If you have any questions about the sessions, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected]
Book your Place
Reserve a place via our RSVP booking system below. Although we will be able to see your name and email address upon submission, once extrapolated this data will be anonymised. We appreciate your support in providing this information, which will help us to ensure our leadership development interventions are widely accessible and inclusive.
If the programme is full, please feel free to join the waiting list via the button below. This will help us to understand the demand for our programmes and plan accordingly. You will also be notified when we release new dates.
The session will be delivered virtually.
Please note that this is a pan-regional programme, led by the South West Leadership Academy. Your local leadership academy is coordinating all bookings for your region. Confirmation emails and links to all sessions will be issued by the South West Leadership Academy.
- You will need a webcam and a headset to participate fully.
• The computer will need to have the sound function on so you can hear and speak at the webinar.
• You will need to be connected to the internet for the duration of the webinar.
• We will send an email with details of instructions for the day to all participants, prior to the date.
• Please note: this webinar may be recorded.
This masterclass is an Intermediate Level Workshop for Practices/PCNs and ICB Leads delivered in partnership with South East Primary Care Transformation Team and the South East Leadership Academy
The session will cover some practicalities and value around leaders embedding equality, diversity and inclusion principles in the primary care context. The goal is to help you think through a strategy for implementing EDI in primary care in its broader context of often-competing initiatives, perspectives, expectations, policies and politics.
Outcomes
-
- Review Inclusive Recruitment – looking at your policies are they inclusive, do you do exit interviews, what does your workforce data tell you?
- Looking at data – health inequalities of your population, how can you shape your services when thinking about inclusion.
- Equality Impact Assessment – reviewing your template.
- What are the 9 protected characteristics and your legal responsibilities?
- Connecting to inclusion networks
This session will be repeated three times, 90 minutes each session – please register for the date which suits you:
Who is the session for?
The NHS Leadership Academy provides leadership development for people of all backgrounds and experiences across health and care.
Terms and Conditions
In order to demonstrate best value to patients, the NHS and taxpayers, we need to ensure maximum attendance on leadership development opportunities and events.
Please view our Cancellation Policy as there will be a non-attendance charge to your employer/organisation should you secure a place and subsequently fail to meet any of these commitments.
If you have any questions about the sessions, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected]
Book your Place
Reserve a place via our RSVP booking system below. Although we will be able to see your name and email address upon submission, once extrapolated this data will be anonymised. We appreciate your support in providing this information, which will help us to ensure our leadership development interventions are widely accessible and inclusive.
If the programme is full, please feel free to join the waiting list via the button below. This will help us to understand the demand for our programmes and plan accordingly. You will also be notified when we release new dates.
The session will be delivered virtually.
Please note that this is a pan-regional programme, led by the South West Leadership Academy. Your local leadership academy is coordinating all bookings for your region. Confirmation emails and links to all sessions will be issued by the South West Leadership Academy.
- You will need a webcam and a headset to participate fully.
• The computer will need to have the sound function on so you can hear and speak at the webinar.
• You will need to be connected to the internet for the duration of the webinar.
• We will send an email with details of instructions for the day to all participants, prior to the date.
• Please note: this webinar may be recorded.