Empowering Future Leaders to Shape Healthcare with Purpose and Confidence.
The Brief
A major healthcare provider in Gippsland sought to invest in the development of its emerging leaders to support a cultural shift toward authentic, distributed leadership.
The goal was to equip high-potential staff with the skills, confidence, and mindset to lead effectively in a complex and evolving healthcare environment. Future Leadership was engaged to design and deliver a tailored development program that would build leadership capability, foster cross-functional relationships, and align with the organisations strategic direction.
Improved Employee Engagement
Companies that undergo successful organisational transformation experience a 30% increase in employee engagement. Engaged employees are more productive, less likely to leave, and contribute to a positive workplace culture.
Reference: McKinsey & Company, "The People Power of Transformations" (2018)
Financial
Organisations that successfully implement transformation initiatives see an average 25% improvement in their financial performance, including revenue growth and profitability.
Reference: BCG, "The Role of Leadership in Transformation" (2020)
Return on Investment (ROI)
Transformation projects with effective change management practices are six times more likely to meet their objectives and achieve a 143% return on investment (ROI).
Reference: Prosci, "Best Practices in Change Management" (2019)
Reduced Time to Market
Organisations that undergo successful digital transformation reduce their time to market by 20-50%, allowing them to bring products and services to customers faster and stay competitive in rapidly changing markets.
Reference: Deloitte, "Digital Transformation: A Roadmap for Billion-Dollar Organizations" (2021)
The Process
The Emerging Leaders Program was co-designed with organisations People and Culture team and delivered across multiple cohorts. The program offered flexible delivery options—fully face-to-face, hybrid, or fully virtual—and included the following core components:
- Facet5 Psychometric Assessment: Participants completed this tool to build self-awareness and understand their leadership preferences.
- Workshops: A series of full-day, face-to-face sessions focused on leadership fundamentals, including adaptive leadership, team dynamics, values mapping, and the GROW coaching model.
- Coaching Circles: Small group sessions facilitated online to deepen learning, encourage reflection, and build peer support networks.
- Self-Directed Learning: Participants engaged in activities between sessions to apply insights in their day-to-day roles.
- Masterclasses: Delivered by subject matter experts, these sessions explored advanced topics such as leading in complexity and leading with purpose.
- Graduation and Showcase: The program concluded with a whole-of-cohort event where participants shared their learnings and received certificates of completion.
Participants were also encouraged to form peer learning partnerships or be matched with mentors from different departments to broaden their organisational perspective
The Advisory Team's Impact Across Clients Through Survey Feedback
32% Increase in Self Awareness
Individuals’ awareness of motives, values, strengths and development needs
21% Increase in Motivation
Individuals’ motivation to apply learning, insight and further develop
27% Increase in Confidence
Individuals’ confidence in their abilities and impact as a leader
30% Increase in Role Clarity
Individuals’ clarity around success factors associated with their role
The Outcome
The program delivered strong results across individual, team, and organisational levels:
Leadership Growth: Participants reported increased self-awareness, motivation, and confidence in their leadership capabilities. They gained clarity on what effective leadership looks like at the organisation and how to embody it.
Cultural Impact: The program supported the organisations shift from a command-and-control culture to one of shared accountability and collaboration. Leaders at all levels began to model more authentic and distributed leadership behaviours.
Recognition and Momentum: The program received outstanding feedback from participants and stakeholders, and the organisation was recognised with an industry award for its leadership development efforts. Certificates were awarded to participants upon completion of the program.
FL have successfully run 2 cohort.
