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Essential Strategy for Beginners

This session will help you build foundational strategic thinking skills and encourages you to apply them in your work. Through case studies and practical exercises, you will learn to recognise patterns that impact strategy, generate new insights, and strengthen your ability to make informed decisions in healthcare settings.

Date Tuesday, 16 December 2025 13:30 PM - 15:30 PM
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What you'll learn

  • Fundamental principles of strategic thinking in healthcare
  • How to identify patterns and trends that influence strategy
  • Techniques to generate insights and ideas for improvement
  • Ways to apply strategic thinking in practical, real-world scenarios
  • How to encourage strategic thinking in colleagues and teams

Who is this webinar for?

  • Healthcare professionals new to strategic thinking
  • Leaders and managers looking to strengthen decision-making skills
  • Staff involved in planning, service improvement, or organisational development
  • Anyone seeking to build confidence in applying strategy to everyday work

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.

What participants say

90%

of attendees would recommend this session to a colleague.

“This was a good overview of strategy and has enabled me to better understand the fundamentals.”

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