Leading Insights
15 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsListen in to gain insights into the careers and experiences of Leaders from across Scotland's public sector. Interviewed by Dr Kate Arrow, a Specialty Registrar in Anaesthesia and Dr Thomas Lamont, Specialty Registrar in Restorative Dentistry. Hear the candid stories, experiences and reflections of some of Scotland's most successful Professionals from across Academia, Government, Health & Social Care and The Third Sector.
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Professor John Gibson: We need to talk about suicide
July 14, 2022 09:25 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBWe need to talk about suicide prevention and postvention. In this episode we speak to Professor John Gibson (Emeritus Professor of Oral Medicine, University of Aberdeen) who describes his journey following the unexpected and devastating suicide of his 24 year old son Cameron in 2019. John was part way through walking Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise suicide awareness and funds as part of #onemanwalkingamilliontalking. John gives insight and advice as to what we can do as individ...
Lucy Aphromor; The Radical Dietician
May 06, 2022 10:33 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBWe have deliberately left in a few bloopers to fuel your thinking around the topics discussed. Find out more about Lucy Aphromor at lucyaphromor.com
James Timpson
November 19, 2020 08:04 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBThomas Lamont meets James Timpson to discuss the importance of kindness, language and autonomy in the success story of Timpsons. James shares his views on building up a diverse team of colleagues and why he believes delegating autonomy leads to innovative, successful services led by happy and motivated teams. Listen in to hear how he has achieved this in his own company over the last 20 years.
Dr Navina Evans: Chief Executive of Health Education England
November 11, 2020 06:59 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBDr Navina Evans is the former CEO of East London Foundation Trust. Under Dr Evans' leadership, ELFT developed their organisational strategy focussed on improving the lives of their patients through Quality Improvement methodology and people participation. She has recently moved to Health Education England as CEO. In this podcast we discuss her career from Psychiatry to Chief Executive, the challenges of maintaining momentum and effecting continuous improvement as well as her expe...
CEO of Young Scot: Louise Macdonald OBE
September 15, 2020 00:42 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBIn this episode we chat to Louise Macdonald, Chief Executive of Young Scot. In this episode, Louise shares her story of shifting careers from Journalism to The Third sector. She tells us how her values are core to prioritising work and her several high profile roles and how she balances self-care and professional life.
Cat Macaulay, Chief Design Officer
August 30, 2020 09:24 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBKate Arrow 0:02 Welcome to Leading Insights. Today we're joined by Cat MacAulay. Cat could you tell us a little bit about your role? Cat Macaulay 0:14 Sure. So I'm the chief design officer for Scottish Government's digital Directorate. And that's a fairly new role, I think. Well, I know for Scottish Government. First time we've had the chief design officer. And really what I'm there to do is, I suppose a couple of key things. So one of them is helping to introduce the idea of...
Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland.
August 21, 2020 02:54 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBKate Arrow So welcome to Leading Insights. Today we are joined by the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon. I am Kate Arrow, I'm a registrar in Anaesthesia. Thomas Lamont And I'm Thomas Lamont, I'm a Registrar in Restorative Dentistry. First Minister, thank you for joining us. Nicola Sturgeon You’re welcome, lovely to talk to you. Thomas Lamont First Minister, you started your career as a solicitor in Glasgow before moving into politics and subsequently into ...
Melis Senova
July 30, 2020 07:37 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBShow notes Kate Arrow 0:02 Welcome to episode eight of Leading Insights. Today we're joined by Melis Senova. I'll let her introduce herself. MS 0:15 Hi, thanks for having me. So my current, I don't know if it's a job, my current, let's call it a portfolio of projects. So things that I'm all across, really involves working with people in all sectors, trying to help them think about how they can improve the systems that they're working within from a human-centred perspective a...
Sarah Davidson: CEO of Carnegie UK
June 28, 2020 15:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBIn this episode we talk to Sarah Davidson, the CEO of Carnegie UK. We hear about her career in the Civil Service and she shares her experience of Organisational expectations vs Personal development. We discuss the power of Mentorship and changing career paths into The Third Sector
Meet the Director of Evidence at Healthcare Improvement Scotland; Safia Qureshi
May 24, 2020 15:00 - 28 minutes - 26 MBIn episode 5 of Leading Insights we speak to Safia Qureshi, Director of Evidence at Healthcare Improvement Scotland. She tells us about her journey from Academia in to leadership. From leading the construction of the award winning Jack Copland Building and using her scientific background to inspire and achieve. She reflects on the role of evidence in the current COVID climate and her personal learning throughout her career
Shaun Maher; Strategic Lead for Person-centred Care
April 27, 2020 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBIn this episode we talk to Shaun Maher, Strategic Adviser to The Scottish Government and champion of person centred care. Shaun shares his journey from Intensive Care Nurse to National leadership position. We discuss compassionate leadership, wellbeing, role models and the current COVID crisis as he joins us from NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow. Interviewed by Dr Thomas Lamont and Kate Arrow.
Angiolina Foster CBE
March 18, 2020 07:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBIn this episode we explore Angiolina's views on leadership, "making the weather", how she has developed over her career and what motivates her.
Dr Catherine Calderwood
December 21, 2019 14:00 - 27 minutes - 23.2 MBDr Catherine Calderwood was appointed as Chief Medical Officer for Scotland in March 2015. Catherine is an obstetrician and gynaecologist and continues to have a maternal medicine antenatal clinic at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Until her appointment as CMO, she was also the National Clinical Director for maternity and women's health for NHS England. In this podcast she shares her leadership journey, advice and tells us more about the evolution of Realistic Medicine.
Scotland's Chief Medical Officer, Dr Catherine Calderwood
December 21, 2019 14:00 - 27 minutes - 23.2 MBIn the second episode of Leading Insights, we hear from Dr Catherine Calderwood. Dr Calderwood is a Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist and Scotland's Chief Medical Officer. In this interview, we discuss career paths, gender, realistic medicine and learn about the advice she would give herself at the start of her career. Please remember to leave a rating and tell us whose 'Leading Insights' you'd like to hear next....we have a great line up for you so far!
Jason Leitch
September 21, 2019 16:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBProfessor Jason Leitch CBE is NHS Scotland's National Clinical Director, responsible for quality in the health and social care system, including patient safety and person-centred care, NHS planning, and implementing quality improvement methods across the government and the broader public sector. Jason is an Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee and completed a Quality Improvement Fellowship at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, under the mentorship of Don Berwick. ...