Leadership at an early stage of training Leadership is defined as an action or ability to lead, but the requirement for a specific age is never mentioned. How I came to stand for the role of chair of my Local Negotiating Committee is a different and long story, fit for a whole blog post, so I will only focus on the positives and challenges of being chair of the Local Negotiating Committee (LNC) of an NHS trust. As a woman, an EU doctor (that had only been in this country for