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Planting seeds of success: Leading like a gardener

Great leaders don’t just direct, they cultivate. Just like a gardener tends to their plants, a strong leader creates the right conditions for their team to grow. In this informal session, Gareth and Linda will be exploring how leadership is less about control and more about nurturing talent, fostering resilience, and creating an environment to help individuals flourish. 

 

Date Thursday, 01 May 2025 20:00 PM - 21:00 PM
Where Details Online Online - MS Teams
User Details Members: Free
Level Details Suitable for all levels
This event has already taken place, but you can watch the recording and download resources below.

Lead facilitators

Gareth Corser

Prior to joining the NHS, Gareth worked in the commercial sector and has a strong marketing background. Gareth has worked at a senior level in acute, community and primary care settings and was previously Executive Director of Strategy at Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. He has a strong track record of successfully leading complex initiatives and has led on a number of significant strategic and commercial projects including corporate and clinical strategy development. Gareth’s expertise ranges across leadership development, strategic planning, system-thinking, project management, the impact of mindset and commercial skills. His passion is to help create an environment where leadership is inspired by kindness and compassion, where individuals and teams hold themselves accountable for their impact on others and where leaders see their role as being to create leaders not followers.

Recent assignments for Gareth have included, the facilitation of board development sessions, designing and delivering various leadership programmes, assisting organisational strategic reviews, and supporting transformation programmes.

Gareth is experienced in working with members on tender responses, patient & commercial strategies, approaches to mergers and acquisitions, fundraising strategies, community service benchmarking.

Linda Keenan

Linda is a Director in the Elect Consulting team and has been with NHS Elect since 2015. She brings a background in counselling, organisation development, mediation, action-learning and team development to her coaching practice. With more than 20 years’ coaching experience she works with a range of individuals including, health sector managers, senior nurses, executives, and clinical directors. Linda has a distinct relational approach to her coaching practice, spending time at the beginning of a coaching relationship to establish rapport, understand the context, needs, drivers and best outcomes for her clients. Linda has a wide range of qualifications which support her work which include, an ILM level 7 Certificate in Executive Coaching and Mentoring, an MSc in Organisation Development from Roffey Park (University of Sussex), accredited diplomas in action learning facilitation and workplace mediation. Linda is also and a MBTI practitioner (step 1 and 2). Between 1994 and 1997 Linda undertook a post graduate qualification in person centred therapy and is a member of the Association for Coaching.

Help us raise money for four amazing charities

This session is part of our special charity webathon, offering 24 hours of free learning for NHS staff as a thank you for everything you do.

If you’re able to, we kindly ask for a small voluntary donation. All the funds will go directly to four incredible charities supporting people through life’s toughest moments.

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