The Health Leadership Program (HLP) has been created specifically to meet the need for tomorrow’s leaders to acquire a strategic and integrated perspective, skills in change management, and expanded business management expertise. The program involves a partnership between the Rotman School, the Change Foundation and the UK-based King’s Fund. HLP immerses participants in a group of their peers from leading institutions across the country and provides exposure to the forefront of today’s health-care management issues.

Program Themes

Leadership: Successful leadership means determining what to do under conditions of great uncertainty, while considering the multiple and conflicting interests of many stakeholders and enormous quantities of information. In addition, health-care leaders are often required to accomplish their objectives through working with a large and diverse group of people over whom they have little formal control.

Management of Change: Understanding and leading change effectively requires the adoption of a schematic approach to change and a process for working with individuals and groups, both inside and outside the organization. Program participants will consider a range of theories and models that will assist them in accomplishing major change initiatives.

Emotional and Political Intelligence: To be effective, leaders must be self aware. They need to understand their own emotional make-up and the type of emotional responses their behaviour triggers in others.

Managerial Tools: Many managerial tools and techniques that are commonly used in the business world can play a useful role in health systems. Participants will be exposed to a range of these tools and given the means to adapt and apply them to their own organizations.