Michael West on compassionate and inclusive leadership

Part of Compassionate and inclusive leadership

Posted:Thursday 31 October 2019

In this video Michael West shares his thoughts on compassionate and inclusive leadership for our recent event The challenge of culture change: sharing system-wide learning to deliver the NHS long-term plan.

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