Bringing Leadership to Life in Health: LEADS in a Caring Environment

1. An Introduction: Leadership In Action, Rather than Leadership Inaction.- 2. LEADS and Organizational Culture.- 3. The Discipline of Leadership in Health.- 4. Learning LEADS: Getting to Results.- 5. Putting LEADS to Work as a Change Tool.- 6. LEADS: Lead Self.- 7. LEADS: Engage Others.- 8. LEADS: Achieve Results.- 9. LEADS: Develop Coalitions.- 10. LEADS: Systems Transformation.- 11. An Indigenous Perspective on LEADS.- 12. Perspectives on Leadership from a Hindi Perspective: Yogi Traditions and LEADS.- 13. LEADS and a Physician Perspective on Leadership.- 14. LEADS and Women in Leadership.- 15. A Patient's/Family View of LEADS.- 16. Putting LEADS to Work.

Graham Dickson is Professor Emeritus at of Leadership Studies at Royal Roads University in Canada. Currently he is working as a Senior Advisor to the Canadian College of Health Leaders, a Senior Research Advisor to the Canadian Society of Physician Leaders and Policy Advisor to the Canadian Health Leadership Network. He is also a member of the LEADS Collaborative, an enterprise established to develop leadership within the health sector in Canada. Graham was co-principal investigator in a cross-Canada research project on LEADS in a Caring Environment capabilities framework. He also consulted with Health Workforce Australia on the creation of Health LEADS Australia, and the New South Wales Leadership Framework (similar to Canada's LEADS). Graham is a partner in LEADS Global. Over the past five years he has delivered leadership workshops for the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA) in Australia and the Patient Safety Institute in Belgium. In recent years he hasdelivered leadership programs for King Abdulaziz Hospital in Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of Health in Bahrain, and InterHealth Canada in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Graham teaches leadership-Strategic Thinking for Results and Leadership Strategies for Physician Engagement-for the Physician Leadership Institute. Graham has also co-authored, with Dr. John Van Aerde on behalf of the Canadian Society of Physician Leaders (CSPL), a White Paper entitled Accepting Our Responsibility: A Blueprint for Physician Leadership, which is currently being used by the CSPL to generate dialogue around the future of physician leadership in Canada. Graham is also doing work with Sanokondu and the World Federation of Medical Managers, two international collaborations that are promoting physician leadership and developing leadership curriculum for residents based on the LEADS framework. Graham has been co-editor-with Karen Owen from RACMA in Australia--of three special edition Emerald Journals, dedicated