Appointing an authentic and engaging Chief Executive Officer to lead one of Victoria’s leading regional health services, embedded in a vibrant and growing community.
The Brief
The Process
- Briefing and Strategy Development: Engaged with members of the Board to understand the role’s strategic priorities, cultural context, and leadership expectations.
- Targeted Candidate Search: Conducted a national search across Australia and New Zealand, leveraging proprietary databases, sector referrals, and targeted advertising on Seek, LinkedIn, and the Future Leadership website.
- Candidate Assessment: Evaluated a diverse pool of candidates from from similar health services or organisations in others states and territories and commonwealth agencies along with high calibre candidates with specific and relevant experience gained in public health services, private health services with public exposure or similar sized health related organisations. Candidates at Executive Director level within larger health services were also to be explored.
- Final Evaluation: Eight candidates were presented at shortlisting with four progressing to a first round of panel interviews. A further second round was held before an appointment was made.
Future Leadership Capability Framework
Culture and Engagement
Fosters a positive culture, creating a sense of belonging and inclusiveness. Creates an environment that encourages diverse perspectives and facilitates a psychologically safe environment.
Communication and Influence
Articulates messages with clarity and impact to build understanding, inspire action, persuade others and enable information exchange. Considers the audience and draws on different styles to create impact.
Strategy and Purpose
Develops and leads strategy for the function /organisation, taking a broad and long-term perspective. Understands and considers context. Communicates and gains buy-in to the function/organisation goals, direction and vision, promoting change initiatives.
Systems Thinking
Views situations in their entirety, understanding all the parts at play. Identifies the interconnected factors and how they influence each other, impacting the whole system. Takes a strategic perspective.
Initiative and Drive
Identifies and implements improvements to the organisation, delivers high quality work, sets and achieves short- and long-term goals for both personal and work outcomes. Develops and delivers organisational change initiatives.
Innovation and Creativity
Demonstrates curiosity through challenging the status quo, expected norms, and workplace paradigms. Contributes new ideas, solutions, and perspectives to current challenges and thinking practices. Creates new products, solutions and opportunities and identifies opportunities for improvements.
