Radical Respect

Sally started her career as an NHS General Management Trainee in 2006, gaining an MSc in Healthcare Leadership and Management as part of this programme. She has worked in various operational management roles across mental health and acute services since then, mainly in London teaching hospitals. More recently she was the Associate Director for Surgery, Theatres, Anaesthetics and Critical Care at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, successfully leading those services through the Covid pandemic surges and elective recovery phases. Sally is a qualified coach and has training in Quality Improvement methodology.

Sally supported the opening of the Heatherwood Hospital as a state of the art orthopaedic and opthalmology elective centre at Frimley Health and increased Critical Care capacity permanently as part of the post-Covid response. Her leadership and coordination of surgical services at Frimley saw some of the first 'green pathway' elective patients treated outside of London in a Covid-safe environment against a backdrop of her Trust treating the 4th highest level of Covid patients in the country.

Sally has completed the Nye Bevan Programme and she is a MBTI Step I and Step II qualified facilitator. She also has a Post-Grad Diploma in Organisational Development Practice.

Leanne has worked in healthcare settings across the NHS in England, Wales and internationally. An Alumna of the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme, she has a Masters (MSc) in Health & Public Leadership. She is an MBTI Practitioner and an EMCC Global accredited Coach.

As an operational manager, she has worked largely with challenged services and teams; leading turnaround and improvements. Leanne led her teams at her Trust in London through the Covid-19 pandemic, whilst also delivering significant improvements in staff morale, sickness absence and retention and a Trust wide digital transformation programme. Leanne was the Trust’s operational lead for the Covid-19 Vaccine Programme and SRO for SW London Mortality Management.

She completed a Global Health Research Fellowship in London; a QI Leadership Fellowship in South Africa, working with leaders including their Health Minister to improve clinical leadership development across the Country; and is currently the Partnership Lead for an HEE programme in Africa.

Kenny Ajayi began his career as a physiotherapist, gaining valuable clinical experience before transitioning into roles within the NHS. His early work focused on clinical ergonomics and human factors in the NHS and local authorities, where he developed expertise that would later shape his career.

Building on this foundation, Kenny held a director role in a company that provided training and consultancy services to the NHS, social services, and the private sector, specialising in risk management.

He went on to take on senior roles in the NHS, including Programme Director for a regional Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC) in North West London, Associate Director for Quality and Safety, and Portfolio Lead for the Children and Young Person’s Mental Health Mission at a Health Innovation Network (HIN). His contributions have been nationally recognised, with his work earning two prestigious Health Service Journal (HSJ) awards for patient safety innovation and partnership. Notably, he led the team responsible for the development of the Suspicion of Sepsis Insights Dashboard innovation.

Kenny’s commitment to professional development is reflected in his academic and training achievements. He has completed two healthcare-focused train-the-trainer courses, in addition to holding two Master’s degrees—one in Ergonomics/Human Factors from University College London and another in Integrated Governance in Healthcare Communities. He has also completed the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Executive Programme in Patient Safety and the NHS Academy Nye Bevan Award in Executive Healthcare Leadership.

A passionate advocate for partnership across systems and care settings and an enthusiast of knowledge-sharing, Kenny has a strong interest in public speaking and is a graduate member of the Chartered Society of Ergonomics and Human Factors. He continues to contribute to the field as a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London.