Friday 12 Apr | 11:00-12:15

Format: Workshop
Stream: Leading
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Brigid Russell Coach and Leadership Consultant (Chair)
Naheen Ali Lived Experience Advisor (Chair)

Leadership can be lonely and hard, especially during turbulent times, and achieving sustained progress requires perseverance. Techniques to connect with others which deepen our personal resolve and ability to persevere are of substantial value, whether we are small- or large-scale improvement leaders. Ancient leaders faced different but profound challenges and many used stoicism to maintain their focus and courage.

In this session, a diverse group of improvement leaders will share insights from their practical and personal experience of using stoic philosophy to approach improvement challenges. Having consciously and unconsciously drawn on these tenets for years, we will make them explicit and actionable for all.

As a result of this session, participants will be able to:

• Explain the 7 tenets of stoicism with examples of how they have been used to improve leadership and results in our volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world


• Identify the tenet/s that most resonate/s with their own leadership challenges and describe what actions they are going to take to develop their leadership practice to better incorporate the key tenet/s

Akudo Okereafor North Middlesex University Hospitals NHS Trust, England

Birgit Hartoft PS! Danish Society for Patient Safety and World Health Organisation, Denmark

Ruth Glassborow Public Health Scotland, Scotland