GGI National NHS NED Development Programme: Peer to Peer Weekly Meeting with Kim Lowe | 4 March

As part of its mission to promote good governance, GGI will host these facilitated, weekly virtual meetings to give NHS non-executive directors an opportunity to share their concerns, challenges and ideas as we rethink the future of health and social care. The goal is to collectively think about the role NEDs play as part of the controlling mind of their organisations, to discuss immediate safeguarding issues and to ensure we all learn from this experience to assure better outcomes for citizens in the future. If you would like to join this meeting, please email events@good-governance.org.uk.

ABOUT

Host: Professor Andrew Corbett-Nolan, Chief Executive, Good Governance Institute

Chair: Dr Usman Khan, GGI Special Advisor, Good Governance Institute

In Conversation with: Kim Lowe, Non-Executive Director at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust and Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

‘Do I Matter and am I Heard?’ How learning from John Lewis may help the NHS to deliver true employee engagement?

• What should be the golden thread of employee wellbeing and where does it start?
• How should training and development fit into employee wellbeing development?
• What can Board’s do to empower employees and create a culture of staff wellbeing?
• What role should Well Being Guardian’s play in delivering employee wellbeing?
• What can be learnt from health systems globally about employee wellbeing?
  

About Kim

Kim Lowe has spent most of her career at John Lewis Partnership and for more than 36 years she has worked across people, customer service, employee engagement, human resources and business.

She progressed through various operational and general management leadership roles, being appointed managing director of John Lewis Bluewater in 2014. In 2007, she was appointed Partnership Board Director and also as a member of the audit and risk and remuneration committees.

Her final role was to lead the pension review at John Lewis before leaving in 2020 to continue to build her portfolio of non-executive director career in the public and private sector, including John Lewis Partnership, Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, she recently joined as a NED at Kent Community Health Foundation Trust. As well as a council Lay Member at the University of Kent and joint Trust Chair of a multi Academy Trust in Medway.

Kim, who lives in Canterbury, said: “I am passionate about employee engagement; I truly believe it lies at the heart of a successful enterprise. An empowered workforce delivers better service and a happier working environment for all."

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This meeting is by invitation and is open to all NHS Non-Executives Directors, Chairs and Associate Non-Executive Directors of NHS Providers. Others may attend by special invitation.

For further details, comments, questions and suggestions please contact: events@good-governance.org.uk