Welcome to the leadership lounge, for all who work or lead in healthcare. Where you get a fresh take on your work as a healthcare leader.
It’s a place to pause, think, and reflect, leaving you refreshed, and inspired. You’ll feel encouraged and able to keep going.
Latest Episodes
#48 From New to Thriving: How to Set Up Your Leaders for Success
Stepping into a leadership role is like jumping onto a fast-moving treadmill—you’re expected to get up to speed quickly while making decisions, managing people, and finding your footing. If you are leading leaders, you play a critical role in ensuring new team leaders don’t just survive but thrive. In this episode, we break down three foundational moves that will set them up for success.
Psychological Safety in Healthcare: How It Transforms Your Team and Your Work
What happens when staff are afraid to speak up? Healthcare teams struggle with stress, turnover, and burnout—but when psychological safety is strong, collaboration, learning, and performance thrive. In this episode, we break down what psychological safety is, the stories of where it started and the impacts when you have it, and what happens when you don’t. If you care about retention, resilience, and results, this is for you.
The Leadership Lounge Archive
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August 2025
- 28 Sept 2025 #71 When you don’t know where to start 28 Sept 2025
- 21 Sept 2025 #70 Is Leadership Supposed to Feel This Heavy? 21 Sept 2025
- 14 Sept 2025 #69 Boring Magic and Brilliant Leadership 14 Sept 2025
- 7 Sept 2025 Joining the Dots: Using Your Career Timeline to Shape What Comes Next 7 Sept 2025
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July 2025
- 31 Aug 2025 #67 Small Steps vs Big Leaps: Which Does Your Leadership Need? 31 Aug 2025
- 25 Aug 2025 Space to Think: How SWOT and SOAR Create Clarity in Leadership 25 Aug 2025
- 17 Aug 2025 #65 The Triple Impact of Bring Present 17 Aug 2025
- 3 Aug 2025 #64 Setting Yourself Up For Success 3 Aug 2025
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June 2025
- 27 Jul 2025 #63 Unravelling the circles 27 Jul 2025
- 20 Jul 2025 Four of The Things That are Keeping me Together 20 Jul 2025
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May 2025
- 28 Jun 2025 #61 When it's time to let go: closing chapters with care 28 Jun 2025
- 22 Jun 2025 #60 Midwinter, Matariki & Meaningful Work 22 Jun 2025
- 14 Jun 2025 Habits: Grounding Leadership in What You Do Daily 14 Jun 2025
- 7 Jun 2025 Have we made everything a crisis? 7 Jun 2025
- 31 May 2025 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Healthcare Leaders 31 May 2025
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April 2025
- 24 May 2025 Asking what matters is the beginning of joy 24 May 2025
- 16 May 2025 #55 Managing your emotions at work. 16 May 2025
- 10 May 2025 This Pink Shirt Day: Bullying is always personal 10 May 2025
- 3 May 2025 A New Hope For Healthcare Leadership 3 May 2025
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March 2025
- 16 Apr 2025 The one where I forgot it was Easter! 16 Apr 2025
- 12 Apr 2025 Leading Through Scarcity: The Abundance Mindset Advantage 12 Apr 2025
- 5 Apr 2025 Milestones & Meaning: Lessons from 50 Conversations on Leadership 5 Apr 2025
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February 2025
- 29 Mar 2025 #49 Collaboration & Cooperation in Healthcare: Knowing the Difference and Making an Impact 29 Mar 2025
- 22 Mar 2025 #48 From New to Thriving: How to Set Up Your Leaders for Success 22 Mar 2025
- 15 Mar 2025 Intelligent Kindness in Healthcare: A Radical Approach to the System We Need 15 Mar 2025
- 8 Mar 2025 Small Steps means Big Progress: 4 Steps for Smart Leaders 8 Mar 2025
- 1 Mar 2025 Psychological Safety in Healthcare: How It Transforms Your Team and Your Work 1 Mar 2025
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January 2025
- 22 Feb 2025 Leadership Under Pressure: Prioritising What Matters 22 Feb 2025
- 15 Feb 2025 The Power of Place: How Your Work Environment Shapes Your Leadership 15 Feb 2025
- 8 Feb 2025 The Power in Knowing What You Stand For. 8 Feb 2025
- 2 Feb 2025 What game are you playing as a healthcare leader? 2 Feb 2025
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December 2024
- 25 Jan 2025 #40 Fuel for the Soul: Why Inspiration Matters for Healthcare Leaders 25 Jan 2025
- 18 Jan 2025 #39 Three ways to lighten your load in the coming weeks. 18 Jan 2025
- 11 Jan 2025 #38 SCARF and Status: How Understanding Triggers Can Transform Your Leadership 11 Jan 2025
- 4 Jan 2025 #36 Intentions Over Perfection: Grounded Goal-Setting 4 Jan 2025
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November 2024
- 14 Dec 2024 #35 Reflect, Refine, Reimagine: Ending the Year with grace 14 Dec 2024
- 7 Dec 2024 #34 Compassion Is Not Pie: Through Self-Doubt and Beyond 7 Dec 2024
- 30 Nov 2024 #33 Joy, Generosity, and Growth: The Network Every Leader Needs 30 Nov 2024
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October 2024
- 23 Nov 2024 #32 The Leadership Upgrade: Expanding Your Capacity for Adaptive Change 23 Nov 2024
- 16 Nov 2024 Small Steps, Big Impact: Embracing Your Own Pace 16 Nov 2024
- 9 Nov 2024 Circle of Control: How to Stay Focused When the World is Overwhelming 9 Nov 2024
- 2 Nov 2024 Bridging Generations in Healthcare: Lessons, Boundaries, and Hope 2 Nov 2024
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September 2024
- 26 Oct 2024 Advice to My Younger Self: Avoiding Burnout in Healthcare Leadership 26 Oct 2024
- 19 Oct 2024 Sharpen the Saw: Renewing Your Leadership for the Long Haul 19 Oct 2024
- 12 Oct 2024 #26 From Fixer to Coach: Turning Interruptions into Leadership Growth 12 Oct 2024
- 5 Oct 2024 Turning Theory into Action: Change Leadership in Healthcare 5 Oct 2024
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August 2024
- 14 Sept 2024 Your Leadership Recharge: The Power of Time Off 14 Sept 2024
- 5 Sept 2024 Healthcare Leaders: 5 benefits from reading fiction. 5 Sept 2024
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July 2024
- 27 Aug 2024 What’s helping healthcare leaders to keep showing up? 27 Aug 2024
- 22 Aug 2024 Does your leadership have a season? 22 Aug 2024
- 15 Aug 2024 How are you defining success? 15 Aug 2024
- 8 Aug 2024 Sometimes you need to go slow to go fast. 8 Aug 2024
- 3 Aug 2024 Stronger together: relationships are the remedy. 3 Aug 2024
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June 2024
- 26 Jul 2024 Clear is kind: the feedback sandwich isn’t. 26 Jul 2024
- 20 Jul 2024 5 things to help you focus, make progress and avoid feeling overwhelmed. 20 Jul 2024
- 13 Jul 2024 Three lessons from Lego 13 Jul 2024
- 6 Jul 2024 I don’t want to keep fighting fires, I want to stop them from starting. 6 Jul 2024
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May 2024
- 29 Jun 2024 Two things I know about getting stuff done. 29 Jun 2024
- 21 Jun 2024 How do you know if you are thriving or surviving? 21 Jun 2024
- 18 Jun 2024 How to rethink managing up 18 Jun 2024
- 8 Jun 2024 How do you build trust when you and your team aren’t in the same location? 8 Jun 2024
- 1 Jun 2024 Taking time to celebrate. 1 Jun 2024
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April 2024
- 25 May 2024 Pink Shirt Day for Life 25 May 2024
- 18 May 2024 Are you there yet? 18 May 2024
- 11 May 2024 How to change when change is hard. 11 May 2024
- 4 May 2024 Does it feel like you’re drowning? 4 May 2024
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March 2024
- 27 Apr 2024 We aren’t meant to do this alone 27 Apr 2024
- 20 Apr 2024 When there isn’t enough 20 Apr 2024
- 13 Apr 2024 Should I grit or should I quit ? 13 Apr 2024
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February 2024
- 23 Mar 2024 Welcome to the leadership lounge 23 Mar 2024