John Wilderspin

John Wilderspin is an independent consultant, facilitator and coach working in the health and care sector.   He has a particular interest in “systems leadership”; supporting leaders to work collectively rather than in organisational and professional siloes. He works with individuals and teams to help them achieve to their maximum potential, enabling them to work successfully in complex and rapidly changing environments. He has a lot of experience working in clinical leadership development; he is an Associate of the Faculty for Medical Leadership and Management, he has coached a wide range of clinical leaders from different professional backgrounds and different health care sectors, and he has contributed to a number of relevant Leadership Centre programmes including the Aspirant Director of Nursing Programme in London.      

 Until 2016 John worked in the NHS in a wide range of leadership roles over a 30-year career. He was the CEO of an acute hospital Trust as well as of three Primary Care Trusts. He led a number of large-scale national development programmes, including “Action on ENT” which brought together a wide range of clinicians across England to develop and spread innovative practice in ENT and Audiology. In his final role in the NHS, John led the implementation of the national leadership and improvement review (the Smith Review) on behalf of NHS England and the other national NHS organisations, and also led the integration process to set up NHS Improvement.