Becky is Professor in Health Systems Innovation at London South Bank University, and Director of the Health Systems Innovation Lab which provides organisational and leadership development for place-based systems change; leadership programmes for clinical leaders, network leaders and citizen leaders; the Primary Care Quality Academies; and which catalyses spread through an international network.

Becky has a track record in systems innovation, the development of asset-based health models, organisational change and leadership development in the UK and Internationally, and in leading networks. She leads a number of Primary Care Development initiatives including a collaboration with Modality and RCGP to support Primary Care Leaders; and the Primary Care Networks Academy. Her experience is an unusual combination of leader, manager, researcher, change agent and entrepreneur. She is known to be an energetic and enthusiastic leader of change and a forward thinker. She has made sustained and demonstrable impact through her work on the quality of health services. Her work on ’10 Leaps Forward – Innovation in the Pandemic’ has had global reach.

She is currently an advisor to the RSA Future of Health and Care programme, and the Bromley By Bow Social Prescribing Evaluation.

During the pandemic Becky has co-lead the Ilkley Scrubs Sewing group sewing face coverings for the community and scrubs for the NHS; leads the Free School Meals at Home for Ilkley; and performed in the Self Isolation Choir’s Messiah at Home. Becky Chairs the Ilkley Clean River Group campaign to make rivers in the UK free of untreated sewage, achieving the first Bathing Water Status for a river in the UK.

She is the thought leader for the following website www.source4networks.org.uk and a reviewer for BMJ leader

Becky blogs at www.beckymalby.wordpress.com on Primary care, coproduction, systems leadership, and innovation and at www.pcnacademy.org.uk on Primary Care Networks.

E: r.malby@LSBU.ac.uk T: @BeckyMalby

Lou Mycroft has been working nomadically for several years now, guided by an ethics of joy.

She brings people together in community, to think, make decisions and implement plans which change cultures, choosing work based on Nesta UK’s 2018 definition of Good Help:

“…enabling people to feel hopeful, identify their own purpose and confidently take action.” 

She is a Thinking Environment facilitator, writer, public speaker and coach and her work translates well to online spaces. She is co-founder of the #JoyFE💛 movement and its influential ‘Ideas Rooms’. She has particular strengths around engagement, digital resilience and the creation of effective, bespoke culture change programmes. She tries to be joyfully militant in everything she does.

She is very interested in wellbeing, particularly mental health and developing personal agency (her first career was as a Public Health Specialist). She is a member of the @MHFECrowd and is currently developing new thinking around health, wellbeing and empowerment, particularly for women.

She has been nominated for an EduFuturist 2020 Award as a Staff Wellbeing Champion, even though she doesnt have a ‘staff’.

Find her on twitter @loumycroft and on the net at loumycroft.org

Mick Ward is a Senior Associate of Nurture Development, an associate of the Health Systems Innovations Lab at London South Bank University and a Trustee of PAFRAS (Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers based in Leeds).  

He retired in June 2020 as Chief Officer, Transformation and Innovation, for the Adults and Health Directorate in Leeds City Council. The role focused on Asset Based Community Development, Digital Health, Arts and Well-Being, Service Transformation, Equality, and Innovation in Practice.

He is from Leeds and worked for social care at Leeds City Council for 42 years, initially as a Care Assistant, before developing and managing a range of services for disabled people and then moving into commissioning for Adult Social Care, Public Health, Housing Support and the NHS, This developed into an expanded joint role as Deputy Director across the Local Authority and the CCG’s in Leeds, leading on commissioning across a wide range of health, care and wellbeing services, before establishing the transformation and innovation role.

Mick has a strong commitment to the social model of disability, citizenship, communities, innovation, culture, equality and diversity, and working in partnership.

He is a life long Leeds United fan and a member of the board of Marching Out Together – the Leeds United LGBT+ Supporters Group

Tweet @mickmodern

To hear more from Mick…

‘Proliferation’ – The implementation of ABCD in Leeds Part 1 – Nurture Development

https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/blog/abcd-practice/proliferation-the-implementation-of-abcd-in-leeds-part-2/

Mick Ward: Commissioning Through Influence

Ever since he was a child, Martin has stimulated real conversation, captured the insights of people and helped people share those insights with others. His innate curiosity led him to study and work in physics, IT, fibre optics, nucleonics, water treatment, project management and many more subjects.

His own personal quest to find out who the real Martin Wells is led him to study and work in human psychology, teaching, diversity and equality in health care and personal growth.

All of these things combined with exploring unique ways of using modern technologies continues to help him provide others with insights so that new possibilities can emerge.

Tony is a coach based in London.

His coaching interests include:

• leadership for reluctant or inexperienced leaders,
• how to avoid (and recover from) burnout and
• mental fitness and self-defence.

When he’s not coaching he can be found in the gym (post-pandemic), singing (post-pandemic) or out and about on his bike (especially during a pandemic).

I first met Tony nearly 30 years ago and this was our first proper conversation for a very long time. We explore stress and burnout and what recovery can look like among many other things.

Tony can be found at https://www.tonypiper.coach/ and on twitter as @tonypiper

And, if LinkedIn is your thing https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonypiperuk/