Conducting an Executive Search for a Dual Chief Executive Officer, a contemporary and strategic leader of two critical health services in beautiful regional Victoria, driving excellence in health outcomes for community.
The Brief
Following extensive collaboration and consideration, the Boards of two health services in regional Victoria agreed to appoint a Dual Chief Executive Officer to further strengthen the collaboration and build closer ties to support the communities. Future Leadership was engaged to support the appointment of a new Dual Chief Executive Officer who would drive improved outcomes through the coordination of services across the region, facilitating increased sharing of resources, expertise and best practice.
The incoming CEO would also lead in a highly complex environment to deliver efficiency of services and infrastructure, enabling the provision of services closer to patients and consumers within the communities.
Candidate net Promote 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
The briefing process provided the framework for the Future Leadership search strategy. The Board identified that the appointee would be a proven executive leader with an affinity for working in a regional setting. A deep knowledge and understanding of clinical governance systems in a complex environment and astute financial skills in management and service delivery would be essential.
The Board was kept up to date on progress throughout the search with regular updates from the lead Consultant, Sandra Kerr and the Future Leadership team provided a shortlist of candidates to the selection panel. Two rounds of panel interviews were supported by Future Leadership, including management of all logistics and provision of interview questions.
The lead consultant completed 360 degree reference checking for the preferred candidate, and supported the negotiation phase to confirm the appointment.
Emerging Capabilities
Engagement and Culture
Engages stakeholders inclusively with sensitivity and regard for diversity and facilitates a psychologically safe environment for social or cultural differences affecting behaviour.
Strategic Relationships
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.
Influence and Communication
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.
Innovation and Creativity
Positively challenges the status quo, expected norms, and workplace paradigms. Contributes new ideas, solutions, and perspectives to current challenges and thinking practices enabling the creation of new products, solutions and opportunities.
Direction and Purpose
Leads transformational processes, motivates teams, and influences commitment to a shared purpose that individuals and the workforce will require to enable sustained organisational success. Builds and promotes a culture underpinning the vision, purpose and values the organisation aspires to achieve.
Adaptability
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.
The Outcome
The successful appointee was confirmed commenced in early February 2024. A highly experienced health sector executive, the incoming CEO demonstrated and inclusive and collaborative style and ability to will work with leaders to build capability and provide support and focuses on codesign as well as strong community engagement to ensure the voice of the community is heard and included in decision making.
