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Career planning

Taking charge of your career

With so much change across the NHS, you might be thinking about your career and what comes next. This session will give you time to reflect, so you can identify moments that have energised or drained you during your career. You’ll also explore manageable actions, so that you can make informed and confident decisions about your next steps.

Date Wednesday, 10 June 2026 15:00 PM - 16:00 PM
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What you’ll learn

  • How change can affect motivation and confidence when roles or structures shift
  • What looking back at your career can tell you about your strengths, preferences and patterns, and how to identify what matters to you now
  • Different ways of thinking about career moves, including sideways steps, development opportunities and building on existing strengths
  • How to shape a flexible career plan that you can adapt over time, rather than needing all the answers now

Who is this webinar for?

This session will be particularly useful if you’re dealing with organisational change or simply ready for something different but need help working out what that might be.

Lead facilitators

Sue Kong

Sue has 30 years of operational, strategic and board experience in the NHS, largely in London and the East Midlands. She is passionate about developing young people and promoting diversity in the NHS. Sue has an MBA (distinction), specialising in marketing and is a CIM Chartered Marketer. Sue is an editorial board member for the Journal of Patient Experience (SAGE) and has presented at Warwick Business School, the Institute of Directors and the 2020 Arab Health Congress. Sue holds the ILM Level 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching and Mentoring, is a member of the Association for Coaching and is passionate about coaching and mentoring colleagues from all backgrounds and disciplines in the NHS and is also keen on researching and testing use of AI in coaching. In 2024, Sue has been recruited to sit on the selection panel for the prestigious Oxford University & Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Ellison Scholars programme to find and fund students who will help solve some of humanity’s most challenging and enduring problems.

Rob Wright

Rob Wright’s niche is leadership career pathways in the NHS. He was previously Head of Executive Talent & Appointments at NHS England where he worked on CEO talent strategy, the creation of the Leadership Competency Framework and the appointments to the ICB boards.

Prior to that, as a Senior Programme Lead in the NHS Leadership Academy, he helped establish the NHS Executive Search team that supported board appointments in the NHS. He was also worked on the national Aspiring CEO programme, the Clinical Executive Fast Track, the Aspiring Director of Nursing, HR Director and Medical Director programmes and as well as the Aspire Together regional talent boards.

He has a background in search and selection and also took a time out to complete an internship with the RSPB, as an Education Officer – a position which involved encouraging school parties to explore the natural world.

What participants say

96%

of attendees would recommend this session to a colleague.

“I liked the the models used for explaining and got to know more about leadership programmes which I want to develop my expertise in.”