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Management fundamentals

Essential strategy skills for beginners

This session helps you strengthen your strategic thinking skills and encourage them in others. Through case studies and practical thinking exercises, you develop your strategic thinking skills, recognise patterns that impact strategy and enhance your abilities to generate new insights and ideas.

Date Tuesday, 17 June 2025 09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
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What will you learn

The session provides delegates with an introduction to some core theories, models, and tools for developing strategies.

Lead facilitators

Mark Leyshon

An experienced commercial practitioner, Mark initially started his career in the Automotive industry within Supply Chain Management, and was actively involved in his organisations world class continuous improvement programme. He then moved on to a variety of senior, and executive commercial posts in the rail, energy and travel industries, where his experience includes acquisitions and a management buy out. At the turn of the Millennium Mark started his own Consultancy Company providing PFI support before broadening into a wide variety of improvement and change management assignments.

Jim Lusby

Jim has worked in and around the NHS for more than 30 years. His Board-level experience has been drawn from roles in several large Trusts, a Strategic Health Authority and in the NHS Trust Development Authority.  He also spent four years as a Senior Civil Servant, in national positions in the Department of Health and later as head of the health team in the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit. Jim's experience makes him well-placed to advise on all aspects of organisational and system strategy and delivery.  Building relationships and shared priorities in complex operational and political environments has been a particular theme throughout much of his career.