RACGP Future Leaders podcast series: Recent Episodes
RACGP Future Leaders Podcast Series
This RACGP Future Leaders podcast series includes interviews with prominent individuals who have been chosen because of the demonstrable impact they have had as a leader in their field. Each podcast connects to a leadership topic for the month, including organisation governance and dynamics, resilience, change management, influencing, strategic decision-making, advocacy and representation.
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Dr Nicole Higgins, alumna of the Future Leaders Program shares her leadership experience on creating champions of change with RACGP’s Anne Davis.
Resources
Simon Sinek – Youtube how great leaders inspire action https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action?language=en
Dr Natalie Payne, Future Leaders Program alumna shares her experience on power struggles and conflict management with RACGP’s Anne Davis.
Future Leader alumna, Dr Emily Kirkpatrick joins Anne to discuss her experience in choosing direction and her approach to effectively channel her focus through mind mapping and mentoring.
Resources: Suddenly I’m a Leader webinars: https://www.racgp.org.au/racgp-digital-events-calendar/online-event-items/on-demand/suddenly-i-m-a-leader-coping-with-change-and-chang https://www.racgp.org.au/racgp-digital-events-calendar/online-event-items/on-demand/suddenly-i-m-a-leader
Anne Davis is joined by Dr Eugene Wong, an Alumnus of the Future Leaders Program. Eugene shares his experience on changing perceptions of self and self-sabotage.
Resources: Suddenly I’m a Leader webinars: https://www.racgp.org.au/racgp-digital-events-calendar/online-event-items/on-demand/suddenly-i-m-a-leader-coping-with-change-and-chang https://www.racgp.org.au/racgp-digital-events-calendar/online-event-items/on-demand/suddenly-i-m-a-leader
Dr Michael Wright, a Future Leaders Alumnus joins Anne Davis, RACGP NSW&ACT Faculty Manager to share his experiences of coping with change and the challenges with change resistance. Resources:
Suddenly I’m a Leader webinars: https://www.racgp.org.au/racgp-digital-events-calendar/online-event-items/on-demand/suddenly-i-m-a-leader-coping-with-change-and-chang https://www.racgp.org.au/racgp-digital-events-calendar/online-event-items/on-demand/suddenly-i-m-a-leader
The Change Curve https://www.exeter.ac.uk/media/universityofexeter/humanresources/documents/learningdevelopment/the_change_curve.pdf https://www.insights.com/us/resources/coaching-people-through-the-change-curve/
Dr Liz Marles is a past President of the RACGP and is currently the Director of the Hornsby-Brooklyn GP Unit (NSW Health). Having had a first career as a high school teacher in Victoria, Liz started medicine at the age of 28, and had her first child at the end of her intern year at Hornsby Hospital. She undertook GP training combining part time clinical placements with work as the NSW RLO and then as an Academic registrar at the University of Sydney. For 15 years, Liz worked as a GP at the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern , and has continued her interest in aboriginal health through the establishment of the Bungee Bidgel Clinic at Hornsby Hospital.
Liz’s current interests remain in evidence based clinical practice, education, therapeutics and health equity. Since completing her term as RACGP President, Liz has taken on a number of leadership roles , including as Chair of Therapeutic Guidelines, member of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee , member of Cancer Australia Advisory Council, and as a board member of GP Synergy. She also participates in multiple state and federal government committees, concerned with health policy and remains a member o the RACGP NSW and ACT faculty.
Professor George Kailis is Executive Chair of the MG Kailis Group, a major fishing and marine business, and is Professor of Management and Law at the School of Business of the University of Notre Dame. He holds special interests in the areas of natural resource policy and law and fisheries management.
Professor Kailis has had extensive industry, government and community experience at both a national and international level. He was recognised by the World Economic Forum as a Global Leader for Tomorrow in 1998. He has served on various boards and in advisory roles including on Yale University’s Center for Environmental Policy and Law and as Chair of CSIRO’s Wealth From Oceans project.
Professor Claire Jackson was RACGP President from 2010 to 2012.
Claire is a practising GP and GP Trainer in Brisbane has been active in integrated care innovation, education and research for many years. She has been extensively involved in health services research and reform since the early 90s. She has been a member of both the national Primary Health Care Advisory Group and the National Primary Care Strategy Expert Reference Group - guiding forces behind Australia’s national primary care reform. She provided a commissioned paper for the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission on new models in primary care. Her current primary area of research interest is in health system reform involving primary care, a topic on which she has published and presented internationally.
Claire is currently Director, MRI-UQ Centre for Health System Reform and Integration.
Professor Bill Irish practised as a GP in the UK for 25 years, and held a position on RCGP Board, before retiring to take up his current role. He is the UK lead postgraduate dean for the specialties of acute medicine, infectious disease and pre hospital emergency medicine. He is the Health Education England dean for integrated academic and clinical training for doctors and dentists.
Bill holds visiting chairs of medical education at the universities of Bristol and East Anglia and has research interests in high-stakes assessment, medical trainee recruitment and selection.
Bill describes himself as being fortunate to be deployed as clinical lead for a large Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone during the recent pandemic.
Professor Michael Kidd is currently Chair of the Department of Family & Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, Canada. He was instrumental in tackling the issues faced by the College during a tumultuous period in 2002 and forging a much stronger organisation, aligned to members' needs. Michael has held numerous leadership positions throughout his career and, in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2009, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for service to medicine and education in the areas of general practice and primary health care.
Dr Zena Burgess is CEO of the RACGP, having been appointed in 2008. Zena is proud to be associated with the RACGP by contributing to its future and ongoing success. Her priorities are to ensure the responsiveness of the RACGP to members and to assist the RACGP to meet its business objectives.
Zena holds a PhD in psychology and completed her thesis in the area of women and corporate governance. She holds a MBA, a Master of Education, a Graduate Diploma in Educational Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts. Zena's first career was as an Organisational and Clinical Psychologist. She began her career over 20 years ago working in regional Victoria as one of two psychologists in a Community TAFE College providing services to a large geographical region. She has also worked in community agencies and crisis services. Zena has worked in State and Federal Government roles in The Family Court Counselling Service and more recently served as a tribunal member for Victorian Civil and Administrative Appeals.
Through her strong community interest and expertise, Zena was appointed to the Board of the CFA in 2005 and served for 3 years on several subcommittees. She has substantial experience in the post-secondary education sector, having worked at La Trobe University, Swinburne University and at Australian Catholic University. She has also had a successful consulting career, working largely in areas related to personal and organisational change, primarily in public sector, health and allied health related organisations.
In 2008, Zena completed the Leadership Victoria program and contributes her expertise pro bono to projects related to community resilience. She maintains a modest publication and research profile in areas such as services benchmarking, women and corporate governance, work and most recently in work engagement.