Governance of organisational culture | 5 December 2023
27 November 2023
The topic of discussion at GGI's December webinar will be ‘Governance of organisational culture’
The event is taking place on Tuesday, 5 December from 08.30 to 09.30 and will be run virtually on Zoom.
Boards have a prime duty to set and understand the organisational culture over which they provide. Indeed, the latest Code of Governance for NHS Providers sets this as an ongoing accountability for boards. But this needs to be linked to overall governance, rather than treated as an add-on. So, in all ways that a board works, the implicit, tacit way the organisation works – and what those working within the organisation believe – are essential parts of the good governance the board presides over.
Recently there have been a series of high-profile governance failures where the board has neither understood nor steered the organisation’s culture. At GGI we have been involved in many of the subsequent reviews and we have lessons to share and, importantly, practices we believe boards and wider leaderships need to adopt so that they actually govern, not just react to, the organisation’s culture.
We hope that you will join us for what will be an interesting and insightful discussion.
Should you have any questions, please contact events@good-governance.org.uk.
More about our speakers
Kim Lowe, Non-Executive Director, Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Kim Lowe has spent most of her career at John Lewis Partnership and for more than 37 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.
Kim’s final role was to lead the pension review at John Lewis before leaving in 2020 to continue to build her portfolio non-executive director career in the public and private sector, including John Lewis Partnership, Central Surrey Health, Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, as well as a council lay member at the University of Kent and joint trust chair of a school’s academy trust in Medway.
David Rogers, Chairman North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
David joined North Staffordshire as a non-executive director in 2014. He developed a keen interest in healthcare through his wife Ellie Scrivens, a professor of health policy at Keele University and government healthcare advisor, who died in 2008.
He has also served as Chair of the Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire Strategic Partnership and served on the board of the Burslem Regeneration Company.
David worked as an accountant for 18 years and has spent the past 25 years working as a non-executive chairman for a number of companies assisting in the development of their strategic policies.
Over the last decade he has been increasingly involved in the public sector, formulating and chairing the Stoke and Staffordshire Strategic Partnership, which was charged with bringing together the full range of public service providers, and the private and voluntary sectors across the sub-region and generating aspirational strategic longer-term plans.
