Professor Richard Bolden visits the ALLI

14 September 2023

 

The Albert Luthuli Leadership Institute (ALLI) Platform for Health hosted Professor Richard Bolden earlier this month. His visit included strengthening collaboration and research outputs between the Albert Luthuli Leadership Institute, University of Pretoria, and the Bristol Leadership and Change Centre, University of West England.  He delivered an enlightening lecture on "The Paradoxes of Multi-Level Leadership: Insights from an Integrated Care System" where he described how through qualitative inquiry, a theme of paradoxes within an integrated care system emerged. Such as the paradox of identity, the paradox of purpose, the paradox of place, and the paradox of change. Professor Richard Bolden’s experience of systems leadership as well as complexity and change within the healthcare sector is especially apt in the light of the signed Memorandum of Agreement between the World Health Organisation and the University of Pretoria to build capacity for training healthcare professionals within not only the local but also global context. Additionally, he attended the Economic and Management Sciences Spring Graduation Ceremony, commemorating a ALLI PhD student for whom he was an external moderator. After the week, many of the ALLI staff as well as Professor Richard Bolden had gained new insight into exciting collaborative projects to come.