WiCTS Webinar Series: The changing face of leadership

Kiki Lombarts is professor (2013) in physicians’ professional performance at Amsterdam University Medical Centers (University of Amsterdam) and chair of the multi-disciplinary Professional Performance & Compassionate Care research group. She has been working with medical specialists for over 30 years focussing on the development and evaluation of physicians’ performance in patient care, and postgraduate medical education. Specific topics of interest include performance assessment, professionalism, physicians’ wellbeing, compassionate care and gendered medicine. She is member of the programme committee on Gender & Health of the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development, and recently joined the board of the Dutch Network of Women Professors. She was the 2020-21 Presence-CASBS fellow at Stanford University, USA, and still is a fellow at the Presence Center at Stanford Medicine. During her Californian fellowship she investigated the impact of female physicians on patient care quality. She will present some of the results of this work.

Diversity makes you better. More perspectives help teams make better decisions and be more innovative. And yet your brain prefers homogeneous and predictable teams. Your brain finds that easy, you have more self-confidence in those teams, and you also think you are more effective. This is one of the mechanisms we will cover in this webinar to explore what makes diversity and inclusion so difficult at times. Esther Mollema shows you how unconscious biases creep into your decisions and actions and how you can do something about this together in your team.

With her practically applicable knowledge, humour and experience, Esther Mollema is a much sought-after advisor and speaker. She travels the world to collect and share her insights on successful business, High Performance Organizations (HPO), Inclusion & Diversity and Unconscious Bias.

Esther believes that the strength of organizations lies in the individual differences between employees. She teaches you how to use diversity and inclusion for better financial and strategic results.

Four books have been published by Esther on High Performance, Implicit Bias and Inclusion. TheNextWomen has recognized Esther as one of the hundred most successful and influential female entrepreneurs in the Netherlands.

Penny is a former GP, Medical, Public Health and Organisational Development (OD) Director and NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) Fellow, intent on transforming patient and staff experience at individual, organisational and system level.  In her last role as OD Director, Penny led new programmes for culture change, education and occupational health and wellbeing for 17,000 staff and three merging hospitals during the Covid pandemic, and her work on new models of primary care catalysed the Five Year forward View.  She has designed and run leadership development programmes for doctors at the Kings Fund, NHS Leadership Academy and FMLM, holds a Masters and Diploma in coaching, coaches Executive and senior clinical leaders and introduced health coaching for behaviour change across the NHS.  Her initiative and reports on gender equality, working with UN Women, led to 50:50 representation on hospital Boards.  She founded healancoaching in 2021 to offer holistic coaching and consulting to individuals, organisations and systems whose aim is to promote social good.

Dorothy Grandia (1966, New York) is the Associate Director of Programming at the Erasmus Centre for Women and Organisations/Rotterdam School of Management, where she has contributed to the development and delivery of gender-balanced leadership and inclusion programming since its inception in 2014. As a specialist in leadership and influence communication in progression from management to leadership, she facilitates powerful dialogues that coalesce individual perspectives into shared meaning that drives change. An expert in the embodiment of confidence and engagement techniques, since 2016 she is also an executive coach in leadership communication at INSEAD and as communication faculty at IEDC Bled. She has encapsulated her experience in gender communication dynamics in a 2015 TedX talk ‘’Authenticity is a Dangerous Word’’. Grandia holds an MM in Vocal Performance from Mannes College/The New School for Social Research and a BA in Asian Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.

Deborah has worked with today’s top executives on the challenging issues of negotiation, leadership, and gender, in ways that secure wins for individuals and their organizations. Foremost authority in the fields of negotiation, leadership, and gender, she is the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women in Leadership (Emerita) and co-founder of the Ford Foundation funded Center for Gender in Organizations at Simmons College School of Management. Deborah was Former Executive Director and Co-Director of the Negotiations in the Workplace Project at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. She is a strategic advisor and mentor to many of today’s most successful executive women and also served as Faculty Research Fellow at Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research in 2008-2009 and was Adjunct Faculty at INSEAD.

Mirella Visser is founder of the Centre for Inclusive Leadership, advising organisations on inclusiveness. In her career as an international business leader, she worked in finance in Europe and Asia (based in Hong Kong). Currently she is chairing the Boards of two international health organisations (PSI – Europe and KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation) as well as vice-chairing the supervisory council at ING Pensionfund. She was appointed by royal decree to the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) until 2019. Mirella is the author of many articles and books on women and leadership, like Women on Boards, Moving Mountains (2007), De Zijderoute naar de Top (nominated for Managementbook of the Year) and The Female Leadership Paradox (2011). For her activities in promoting women’s leadership in Europe, she was nominated for ‘European of the Year’ in 2007.

Jane Horan, is the founder of The Horan Group, helping organisations build inclusive workplaces and working with individuals on career purpose.  Jane blends research and 25 years of industry experience working with executives, multinationals, and NGOs.  Jane uses a narrative, strengths-based approach in coaching executives across diverse industries. She has published articles and books across business and academic platforms on women leaders, office politics and building inclusive work environments. She holds a doctorate in leadership education from Bristol University, and has lived, worked, and studied in the U.S., China, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Marta Sitges is a staff cardiologist at Hospital Clinic and Professor of Medicine at the University of Barcelona. She obtained her PhD degree from the Universitat de Barcelona, focusing on the effects of hormonal replacement therapy on vascular reactivity. Her main research interests currently consist in cardiac imaging and valvular heart disease. She has published more than 250 peer reviewed papers, presented more than 300 lectures in National and International meetings, written 36 book chapters, received 60 grants, including H2020 projects and prizes and supervised 14 PhD thesis. . She was certified in “Management of Integrated Health Systems” by the business school ESADE in 2012. She was former Head of Cardiac Imaging from 2013 to 2015 and currently, Director of the Cardiovascular Institute at hospital Clinic Barcelona since October 2015. She has been member of the Board of Directors and President (March 2022- March 2023) of the Heart Valve Society. 

Julie Cleuziou attended medical school in Aachen, Germany and started her residency in cardiac surgery at the Heart Centre Wuppertal. After gaining basic knowledge in cardiac surgery and intensive care medicine, she took a senior house officer post in Oxford, UK and worked there for a year with Stephen Westaby. After that, she spent 1,5 years with Marc de Leval at the Harley Street Clinic in London, UK as his surgical assistant focussing on Congenital Heart Surgery . She completed her residency in cardiac surgery at the German Heart Centre Munich under the supervision of Christian Schreiber. In 2018 a new department for Congenital Heart Surgery and Paediatric Heart Surgery was founded within the German Heart Centre with Jürgen Hörer as Director. Currently, she is Deputy Director of this department. Her special interests are the Ebstein anomaly, valve reconstruction methods and the arterial switch operation.

Dr. Maral Ouzounian is Head of the Division of Cardiovascular at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network, and Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto. She is the Munk Chair in Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics and the Antonio & Helga DeGasperis Chair in Clinical Trials and Outcome Studies at University Health Network. Her clinical and academic interests are in the understanding and management of patients with valvular and aortic disease.