I am sharing my experiences of leadership and the journey of a healthcare entrepreneur. I hope that this will inspire others into following the same journey and create opportunities for all!

The Maslow Foundation aims to ensure social inclusion, using the voice of lived experience to create services that meet their ambitions and I am proud to be Chair of Trustees creating hope, joy and meaning in our lives. Our services include creating safe spaces to ensure meaningful conversations, being able to connect individuals into wider services with a model of trauma stabilisation and connection. We are pleased to be offering housing to those who cause harm from domestic violence and enabling their partners to remain in their local community. This has revealed the challenges with employment and our move to creating an entrepreneurial laboratory and microbusiness support. We are champion the Child Impact Assessment to support mothers who may be sent to prison and their children to inform judges and provide a robust plan for the family. To support the charitable sector I have launched Urban Nest Housing Solutions to access housing with safety at our heart.

Nurture Health and Care Ltd has been co-founded by myself and my team to nurture workforces across the public sector. This is built on a model of Psychological Safety and recognises the need for connection, sense making and action. By creating sense making structures through our supervision model or decision making groups in our investigation team, we can enable people to make sense of risk and uncertainty. We are proud to be offering services to the NHS for investigations and the Prison and Probation Ombudsman/NHS England for clinical reviews. In addition, we are providing sexual offence examiners to sexual assault referral centres, with a unique workforce strategy which includes the accredited Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner programme (SANE) and our inspection ready governance delivery. We use our four ways of knowing to help provide understanding, equality of voice and values based decision making to create new insight for our services. We provide post graduate preceptorship programmes and enjoy the contribution of our Nurse Ambassadors and run a Nurture Ripple and Cultural Architect Programme generating psychological safety to embrace the ambition and creativity of our workforce enabling success.

I am interested in how language can represent culture and be measurable through artificial intelligence and have set up a new organisation, the Centre of Artificial Intelligence Interface (CAII), with the launch of our new website and first product which acts to create different perspectives as a basis of decision making: https://www.3friends.ai/ and looks how ethical AI solutions can contribute to healthcare.

As a Trustee for Survivors In Transition, I continue to support my passion of providing services to those who have experienced sexual violence and am lucky to work alongside Fiona Ellis, who as CEO has created a values based innovative organisation to provide therapeutic interventions.

I am also exploring setting up a microgrant funding system to create financial support, coaching and an incubator of change recognising how passion, entrepreneurialism and the agency of people can support change in our services. I look forward to sharing this journey.

Alexis Hutson (https://www.alexishutson.com/) facilitated the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management course – Tomorrows Strategic Leader which I attended and highly recommend. She was an excellent resource and identified the concept of ‘Taking a Thought for a Walk’ which I have named this blog after. Simon Bennett (http://www.simonbennettcoaching.com/) is my personal coach and I advocate this support, It enables us to explore the journey that we are all undertaking in a psychologically safe space.

I believe that without aiming for the impossible, miracles cannot happen and through authentic leadership, we can enable every person to be able to reach their own potential.