Authors: Tosca Fairchild and Acosia Nyanin Tosca Fairchild is Regional Director of Intensive Support in the NHS, and Acosia Nyanin is Regional Chief Nurse for South East, England. They have recently completed the National Leadership Centre’s Accelerate Programme. Blood donors and fire stations. Midwives and an academy school. Something special…

Leaders from across the public sector came together for the final event in NLC’s COVID-19 leadership webinar series, on 7 July. …

On 17 March, the National Leadership Centre (NLC) hosted an online webinar with Sir Gordon Messenger on ‘Leadership in Crisis’. Sir Gordon has been in the Royal Marines for over 38 years and was previously Vice Chief of the Defence Staff. …

“It is always important to take the time to reflect as leaders, even during especially busy periods” — Pat Ritchie, Chief Executive of Newcastle City Council and NLC Advisory Board Member At the end of 2020, the National Leadership Centre hosted an online webinar Systems Leadership — Learning from Sector…

On Thursday 28 January 2021, the National Leadership Centre (NLC) were joined by Deborah Cadman (Chief Executive of West Midlands Combined Authority) and panelists Darra Singh (Senior Partner Government and Infrastructure at EY, previously Jobcentre Plus and Local Authority Chief Executive) and Lord Victor Adebowale (previously Chief Executive of Turning…

The National Leadership Centre helps the country’s most senior public service leaders develop the skills, knowledge and networks required to address society’s most complex strategic challenges Our ambition is to ensure that high quality evidence underpins everything that we do, and helps members of our network to better understand how…

Stephen Crookbain, the Director of the National Leadership Centre (NLC), reflects on what has been delivered in NLC’s first year. Tomorrow, the National Leadership Centre (NLC) will begin the second year of its activity by launching Year Two of its programme for senior public service leaders. …

Stephen Crookbain, Deputy Director at the National Leadership Centre, shares his thoughts on why military leadership at its best can be great — With a backdrop of the 75th Anniversary of VE Day and the deeply troubling realities of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Armed Forces Week is worth celebrating. Take, for example, the superhuman efforts required to plan and deliver the Nightingale Hospitals in record time, or the immense logistical challenge of…

Graham Razey finds that, paradoxically, this pandemic has brought us closer. — Graham Razey, CEO of EKC Group of Colleges, takes a moment to reflect on the change that Coronavirus has meant to his leadership. There’s little doubt that anyone out there ever expected that we’d be in the position we are today. And whilst my organisation does have the word pandemic…