HLA Amsterdam – The Healthcare Leadership Academy

First international cohort

The Healthcare Leadership Academy (HLA) is a unique institute set up to support early stage healthcare professionals from all backgrounds to explore and expand their leadership potential. The HLA aims to create an environment to challenge our scholars in a personal way. Three former HLA London scholars have expanded the innovative programme beyond the UK to Amsterdam. They aim to make the programme developed in London and Newcastle accessible to healthcare professionals across Europe.

In september 2019, the very first international cohort has kicked off in Amsterdam! The HLA community has become a platform for international exchange of ideas and collaboration.

Aims

Nurturing Leadership

Working with healthcare students and young professionals to develop our healthcare leaders of the future.

Fostering Frontline Innovation

Engaging, developing and guiding clinicians to deliver innovative solutions.

Empowering and Valuing the Next Generation of Clinical Leaders

Supporting our clinicians to use their talent effectively.

Values

Accessibility

The HLA wants to expand the innovative programme developed in London and Newcastle to be accessible to more healthcare professionals beyond the UK. In 2019, The HLA will commence its first cohort in Amsterdam. The HLA community will expand and develop as a platform for international exchange.

Inclusivity

The Healthcare Leadership Academy values accessibility and equity and believes all healthcare professionals should have the means to learn about and engage in leadership activities; at any level and at any time. The Healthcare Leadership Academy believes inclusivity is key to leadership. Leadership should not be the arena of a chosen few but of all those with innovative visions, ideas and solutions.

The Founding Team

Medical student, HLA scholar

Medical student, HLA scholar

Medical student, HLA scholar

Cohort 2020-2021

During the course of a year, the HLA will challenge scholars to develop a project within their field of interest. The scholars will attend sessions in Amsterdam with themes covering entrepreneurship, situational leadership, negotiation skills, advanced media communications training and more. The sessions will be delivered by the original London faculty, as well as by international faculty members. Various mechanisms such as peer feedback, facilitated reflection and mentoring are employed to encourage scholars in their personal and project development. Throughout the year events will be organised where the scholars will meet the other cohorts, alumni and faculty members. Perhaps the most exciting part of joining the HLA Amsterdam is not only that you gain the skills and knowledge from the course, but that you are also joining a vibrant and thriving community of the healthcare leaders of tomorrow.

Cohort 2020-2021 schedule:

Sat 5th September 2020 10:00 – 17:00, in London

Sat 3rd and Sun 4th October 2020

Sat 16th and Sun 17th January 2021

Sat 17th April 2021

Sat 26th and Sun 27th June 2021

Applications for scholars for 2020-2021 will start the 1st of March 2020.

The Amsterdam Faculty

The Faculty Tutors help run the HLA sessions and provide support to all our scholars. They are from a variety of backgrounds and specialities.

Marcel Levi

Chief executive UCLH & Professor of internal medicine
@MarcelLevi
Marcel Levi
“Leadership is the ability to let others blossom and grow. Like a symphony orchestra it is all about the quality of the teamwork, not about the individual musicians and certainly not about the conductor.”

Jeroen Geurts

Professor in Neuroscience
@JeroenJGGeurts
Jeroen Guerts

“The biggest challenge for me as a leader is to be constantly self-reflective without losing confidence in my base intuitions or first impressions.”

Sabine Wildevuur

Director of DesignLab, University of Twente
@Waag
Sabine Wildevuur
“Leadership is the ability to let others blossom and grow. Like a symphony orchestra it is all about the quality of the teamwork, not about the individual musicians and certainly not about the conductor.”

Bianca Buurman

Nurse & Professor of Acute Geriatric Care
@bmbuurman ‏
Bianca Buurman

“The famous Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 BC) stated centuries ago: ‘It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.’ A primary task of leadership is to stay focused on the set goal.”

Naïma Azough

Politician
@NaimaAzough
Naïma Azough
“The greatest challenge within leadership today is the challenge to not only lead individuals but to mold a community.”

Wanda de Kanter

Pulmonologist AvL & Activist against the Tobacco industry
@Wdekanter
Wanda de Kanter

“Not all what is legal is right or justified: we don’t want to live in a society where profits are more important than quality of life… My challenge is to bring the future in the present. The future is now and we must act now.”

Erik Jan van Lieshout

Internist-intensivist UMCA
@ejvanlieshout
Erik Jan van Lieshout
“My greatest challenge in healthcare leadership is to juggle between moving (digitally) forward in performance and outcome versus the original art of medicine.”

Michel van Schaik

Healthcare director Rabobank
@MichelvanSchaik
Michel van Schaik

“My biggest challenge is how to help healthcare providers become fit for the future by providing relevant knowledge, networks and smart financing solutions.”

Sjoerd Repping

Chair Healthcare evaluation and appropriate use, Zorginstituut NL
@SjoerdRepping
Sjoerd Repping
“The biggest challenge is to get every stakeholder in healthcare on board, to let them lose their primary focus on their own interest and to make them commit to the bigger picture: to improve healthcare for each patient. This requires collaboration and constant willingness and ability to change”

Are you interested to get engaged, become a scholar, join our faculty or sponsor our project?

Or contact us directly at: Amsterdam@www.thehealthcareleadership.academy