The Advanced Leadership and Management for Healthcare Training Programme is a bespoke, interactive course designed to prepare the next generation of leaders in health services. Healthcare environments are complex, subject to continuous public scrutiny, and require leaders to balance competing priorities like resource allocation and patient-centred care. This programme equips professionals with the necessary skills to drive efficiency, innovation, and quality care in these rapidly changing landscapes.
The programme is designed to be highly participatory and interactive, with modern teaching methods applied and case studies.
- In-Person Training: 7 days of live, interactive sessions held in London across Imperial’s White City Campus, South Kensington Campus, and the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Simulation Centre
- Online Follow-Up: 3 days of online sessions scheduled 3–6 months post-course to focus on progress reviews, peer coaching, sustaining change, and global health challenges
- Daily Timings: Typically 09:00/10:00 to 15:00/16:00 BST
Key benefits
Staff from WHOCC have designed and developed this practical interactive programme to realise the potential of aspiring and senior health leaders across nations. Participants will be able to:
- Understand the characteristics of good leadership and how to achieve it
- Explore the ways leaders excel in their jobs
- Exercise situational leadership and how and when to apply it
- Comprehend how good leaders communicate and why some fail
- Experience how to develop leadership skills
- Engage in leadership in practice
Participant profile
This course is designed to meet the needs of policy makers, health managers, heads of clinical/administrative departments, health professionals with an interest in management, staff in international/regional organisations, academic health directorates and authorities, and other interested stakeholders.
The course can be delivered in any location worldwide, and will require 5-7 working days.
For more details please see the Course brochure here.
Core Competencies Participants will be exposed to a diverse set of skills aligned with the WHO EURO framework, including:
- Strategic Thinking & Decision-Making: Planning long-term while making ethical, data-driven choices under pressure.
- Emotional Intelligence: Building self-awareness, empathy, and social interactions to lead teams effectively.
- Effective Communication: Engaging with policymakers, staff, and patients, and overcoming cross-cultural communication challenges.
- Change & Crisis Management: Guiding teams through organisational change and handling unforeseen disruptions.
- Data Acumen: Managing budgets, resources, and utilising data for strategic planning.
- Day 1: Welcome, Foundations of Leadership, and Emotional Intelligence Assessment
- Day 2: Strategic Planning, Project Management, and Risk Identification
- Day 3: Health Governance and Hospital Management
- Day 4: Effective Communication and Adaptive Leadership
- Day 5: Managing Change and Driving Behavioural Shifts (including the COM-B model)
- Day 6: AI in Training, Simulation Centre Tour, and Emotional Intelligence Coaching
- Day 7: Quality Improvement, Capstone Innovation Projects, and Action Planning
Past Cohorts:
- 8th – 19th September 2025, London UK. More info: Advanced Leadership Course 2025
- 8th – 15th November 2024, Pakistan Lahore [ongoing collaboration with University of Lahore: UOL Website]
- 9th – 14th March 2020, London, WHO CC
- 14th – 18th October 2019: London, WHO CC
- 29th July – 2nd August 2019: Geneva & London, WHO CC
- 19th – 23rd November 2018: London, WHO CC
- 6th – 10th August 2018: London, WHO CC
- 5th – 12th August 2017: Dubrovnik, Croatia, InterUniversity Centre; Organised by: WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education & Training & Zagreb Institute for the Culture of Health. Aimed at: Policy makers, health managers, heads of clinical and administrative departments, health professionals with an interest in management, and other interested stakeholders
- 3rd – 7th July 2017: London, WHO CC
Bespoke courses can be organised on request.
How to apply
Please click here to go to the registration form.
Please contact Ms Ela Augustyniak if you are interested in arranging a bespoke course.