Delivering an Executive Search to strengthen clinical governance and stakeholder confidence in a highly complex health environment
The Brief
Future Leadership was engaged by a national provider of health services in Australia to appoint a Chief Health Adviser, a critical executive leadership role supporting the delivery of primary, mental health and allied health services within a highly regulated and politically sensitive environment.
Candidate Net Promoter Score
Future Leadership combines truly personalised relationships with innovative technology solutions to ensure an approachable and efficient process for all our Net Promoter Score across clients, successful candidates and unsuccessful candidates is well above industry standard.
Candidates supported every year
We maintain genuine relationships with past candidates and continue to support them with leadership solutions long term, after they land their role.
Senior Women Appointed since 2002
Over half of the executive search assignments undertaken by our team have resulted in the appointment of outstanding female or LGBTQI+ leaders to high profile roles.
Candidate Retention Rate for 12 months since 2002
Our thorough briefing process and ability to engage passive candidates mean that we go to great lengths to find the right person for the role – long term!
The Process
Future Leadership undertook a comprehensive and confidential executive search process tailored to the complexity and sensitivity of the role.
Key steps included:
• Briefing and Strategy Development: Conducted in‑depth briefings with senior clinical and executive stakeholders to clarify the strategic remit, risk profile and leadership expectations of the role.
• Targeted Candidate Search: Executed a national search across Australia and New Zealand, supported by targeted advertising and direct outreach through established health, government and medical leadership networks.
• Candidate Assessment: Assessed candidates against technical, leadership and behavioural criteria, including clinical governance expertise, experience in government policy environments, and capability to lead through influence across dispersed workforces.
• Final Evaluation: Shortlisted candidates were presented with detailed capability‑based assessments and evaluated on their ability to operate effectively in a complex, highly scrutinised environment.
Governance and Compliance
Engages stakeholders inclusively with sensitivity and regard for diversity and facilitates a psychologically safe environment for social or cultural differences affecting behaviour.
Stakeholder Relations
Works strategically and systemically to encourage diverse thinking with all types of people. Actively contributes to teamwork, and deliberately builds relationships and networks across a range of people and communities.
Communication and Influence
Communicates with clarity and impact to facilitate individual and collective understanding, inspire action and enable information exchange. Leverages human-centric communication and storytelling to effectively influence stakeholders across the physical and virtual realms.
Adaptability and Resilience
Demonstrating positivity, curiosity, resilience and the ability to pivot when confronted with change, pressure, adversity and disruption. Anticipates and enhances organisation’s capacity to respond quickly to strategic environmental, social and corporate challenges and opportunities.
Systems Thinking
Systematically breaks down siloes across the operating environment and connects stakeholders to harness convergent ideas. Understands the leverage points of systems change and demonstrates the ability to think beyond known systems.
The Outcome
The process resulted in the appointment of a senior medical administrator and clinical governance leader with extensive experience across state health systems, government policy environments and non‑hospital healthcare settings.