Belinda Weir

Belinda joined The King's Fund in June 2010. She has more than twenty five years' experience as a leader, coach, consultant and trainer in health care settings, across public, private and non-profit organisations in the UK.

During her career Belinda has designed and implemented leadership development and individual, team and organisational performance improvement programmes for a wide range of health care organisations. She has planned and supported organisational change strategies for acute trusts, primary care trusts, practice-based commissioning consortia, whole health and social care communities. She has also worked in primary, acute and specialist health settings to promote clinical engagement in strategic planning processes.

She is an experienced strategist, consultant and facilitator, and has worked at board and senior executive level in the NHS and in the private sector, with PCTs, hospital and care trusts, regional networks and strategic health authorities, and in the pharmaceutical industry. She has a particular interest in NHS board development, and in developing collaborative leadership approaches to support whole health systems working.

Belinda is a non-executive director of a mental health foundation trust. She was a university lecturer in health and social care management, and the chief executive of a mental health service provider for many years. She has an MBA from Manchester Business School, and is an accredited MBTI and Prince2 Practitioner.