• Executive education

Leading Systemic Innovation in Healthcare

A five-day programme designed to empower healthcare provider executives, policymakers, and industry leaders

Course key facts

  • Date

    18 - 22 May 2026

    9 - 13 November 2026

  • Duration

    5 days

  • Credits

    Non credit bearing

  • Format

    In-person

  • Fee

    £6,950

  • Location

    On Campus (South Ken)

Overview

Healthcare is shifting beyond traditional care towards more holistic, personalised models of health and wellbeing. At the same time, rapid advances in technology, data and AI are reshaping how care is designed, delivered and governed.

Leading Systemic Innovation in Healthcare is a five‑day programme designed to help you work effectively within this complexity. You’ll explore how systemic innovation, emerging technologies, policy and regulation intersect and how to apply them in practice to drive meaningful change. Through expert‑led sessions and real‑world examples, the course focuses on turning insight into action: building innovation‑ready organisations, navigating regulatory and cultural change, and using technology responsibly to improve outcomes for individuals and populations. You’ll leave better equipped to lead innovation across healthcare systems  with the confidence to adapt, collaborate and deliver patient‑centred care in a fast‑changing landscape.

Learning journey

The programme begins by examining the broader landscape of 21st century healthcare, offering insights into future health trends. It provides a deep understanding of both systemic and product/service innovations within the healthcare sector. It then delves into the intricacies of the policy and regulatory landscape and examines cutting-edge healthcare technologies, AI-driven advancements, and emerging trends in next-generation healthcare. The programme concludes with strategies to develop leadership and culture for innovation as well as implement innovation in healthcare and industry settings.  

Attendees will have the opportunity to network with peers and bring their own health innovation project, which will be explored and developed within the framework of our programme material. 

The core themes of our programme include:

  • The future of healthcare and systemic innovation in healthcare
  • Policy and regulations in healthcare innovation
  • Technological trends and personalised medicine in healthcare
  • Leadership and culture for innovation in healthcare
  • Planetary health and sustainable healthcare

Innovation, Systemic Innovation & Systems Thinking in Healthcare

Acquire a foundational understanding of healthcare innovation. This includes emphasising the long-term future of technology-enabled healthcare and delving into the essentials of both product/service and systemic innovation. Understand systems and systems change in practice and analyse barriers to collaboration in healthcare systems change. Begin the work on your own innovation challenge. 

Sessions on day one will include: 

  • Welcome and introduction. 
  • The long-term future of healthcare in a technology-enabled 21st century 
  • The fundamentals of product/service and systemic innovation 
  • Enabling collaboration and systems change in healthcare 
  • Workshop: Individual health innovation projects 

Programme overview

"Participants are, or are going to be, leaders in their industry, and really in the healthcare landscape."

Course details

Participant experience

"I would recommend the programme, I've really enjoyed it. I'd definitely say think of an idea that you're struggling with at the moment and come pre-armed with that, I think you're going to be able to get the best out of the course"

Course instructors

Adam Kingl

Lecturer at Imperial Business School

Adam Kingl is highly regarded for his expertise in the future of business. His primary research focuses on the work and leadership paradigms of the youngest generations in the workplace. Kingl is a highly sought-after speaker at prestigious events, including the World Expo Business International Milan, Global Leadership Summit and HR Directors Business Summit. His work featured in esteemed publications, including the Financial Times, Sunday Times, The Guardian and many more. He has also authored two books titled Next Generation Leadership and Sparking Success.

Andy Wilkins

Programme Director

Andy is a futurist, speaker, podcaster and founder of Future Health – a new think tank and systems convener exploring the long-term vision for health and healthcare systems in a technology enabled 21st century. He has undertaken numerous healthcare innovation and transformation projects and has authored several high-profile reports for the NHS and policy makers on the future of healthcare. Andy is a visiting lecturer to UCL and a champion for a new future based on holistic health that includes wrapping holistic, person-centred health and care around the needs of individuals and communities and the transformation from silos to health ecosystems that will make this possible.

Susannah Howard

Integrated Care Partnership Director

Susannah is the Integrated Care Partnership Director for the Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which in 2025 was rated in the highest national performance category (Category 1) by NHS England and is widely recognised for its exceptional partnership and system working. A psychologist by background, Susannah has held senior roles across mental health, health improvement, and NHS innovation, including founding ‘Enable East’ and working with the World Health Organisation. She has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University Extension School, is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group and National Strategic Council for Obesity

Suki Balendra

Director of strategic partnerships, Paddington Life Sciences.

Dr Suki Balendra is Director of strategic partnerships for Paddington Life Sciences. She has a wide range of leadership experience with a 20-year background facilitating, growing, and promoting health research in the UK across sectors including industry, academia, NHS, and central government. Suki is also director of the North West London Clinical Trials Alliance which aims to improve access to and the quality of clinical research in the region. Suki started her career in the Biotechnology Industry at Abbott Diagnostics Ltd. Within a Good manufacturing practice (GMP) environment she worked on several operational projects to improve efficiency, cost, and reproducibility. Suki has a PhD from the University of Warwick, and she is a passionate advocate for UK PLC as the number one destination to conduct clinical trial, in a way that they are open to everyone within the communities we serve.

Geoff Mulgan

Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL)

Sir Geoff Mulgan CBE is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). Prior to that, he was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation, between 2011 and the end of 2019. From 1997 to 2004 Geoff had roles in the UK government including director of the Government's Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister's office. From 2004 to 2011 he was the first Chief Executive of The Young Foundation. He was the first director of the think-tank Demos; and has been a reporter on BBC TV and radio. Geoff helped found many organisations including Demos, the Young Foundation, the Social Innovation Exchange (SIX), Uprising, Studio Schools Trust, Action for Happiness, the Alliance for Useful Evidence, the Australia Centre for Social Innovation and Nesta Italia. He has co-chaired a World Economic Forum group looking at innovation and entrepreneurship in the fourth industrial revolution.

Francesca Cleugh

Deputy Director of Innovation and Improvement, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust

Dr Francesca Cleugh is a Paediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant and Deputy Director of Innovation and Improvement at Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, London where she leads strategic programmes across the Trust to support staff to build learning, improvement and innovation. Through various initiatives and roles over time, she has championed a whole-system approach to innovating improvements, ensuring delivery of safe quality care. She established an innovative acute hospital at home service for children across North West London and continues to share her expertise in development of national policy for hospital at home for children.

Chris Naylor

Senior Fellow

Chris is Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund & Policy Lead at Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. Chris has a background in health policy and research and is passionate about creating sustainable health and care services that are resilient for the future. He has extensive experience working across a range of health policy issues at the UK health think tank, The King’s Fund, and also works as Policy Lead at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. In previous roles he has worked at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London and the Public Health Foundation of India in Delhi. He has an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a BA in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge. He is a trained coach and an experienced facilitator and works with leaders in the health system to support practical change.

Yvonne Doyle

Senior Adviser to the WHO Europe

Yvonne Doyle CB FMedSci brings over 40 years’ experience as a public health doctor who has worked in senior roles in the NHS, government, academic, independent sectors and internationally. She provided leadership for health for the population of London and Statutory Adviser to consecutive Mayors of London; leadership in England for health protection during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Medical Director for Public Health at NHS nationally. She currently acts as a senior adviser to the WHO Europe on ageing in good health. She is also a non-executive at a London teaching hospital, a Trustee of The King’s Fund, of Pathway a charity for homeless persons, and undertakes academic teaching and examining. Yvonne also chairs the Health Services Committee at the UK Faculty of Public Health.

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Hannah Hynd

Business Development Manager – Open Programmes