Health Leadership for Impact
Influence, align, and thrive in healthcare complexity.
Health Leadership for Impact Course Overview
Build resilient, collaborative teams with a leadership style to navigate complexity, influence outcomes, and drive cross-sector impact. Strengthen communication, alignment, and confidence to lead through challenge and change.
Who Should Attend Health Leadership for Impact?
Leaders Across Healthcare, Service and Innovation Settings
This intensive, three-day residential course is designed for leaders at all levels, whether emerging or experienced.
Leaders Who Need to Build Influence Without Authority
Master difficult conversations and foster psychological safety and team alignment.
Leaders Who Need to Strengthen Personal Resilience
Develop a coaching and facilitative leadership style to guide teams confidently through change and challenge.
Leaders Who Need to Navigate Complexity
Optimise outcomes by understanding and successfully engaging with public/private sectors and policy imperatives.
Health Leadership for Impact Key Takeaways
Leading Teams with Clarity, Resilience, and Shared Purpose
- Influence effectively without formal authority.
- Foster psychological safety and a learning-oriented culture.
- Provide constructive feedback and lead with emotional intelligence.
- Develop resilient leadership capabilities.
- Integrate reflective practice for continuous leadership development.
Understand Your Leadership Style
- Improve your self-awareness and understanding your leadership style.
- Align personal values with leadership vision.
Effective Stakeholder Engagement
- Identify the principles of effective stakeholder engagement and understanding the people you work with.
- Build collaborative networks across healthcare boundaries.
Navigate the Complex Ecosystem that is Health
- Identify tools for how to navigate the complex ecosystem that is health including the public/private and policy driven dynamics.
Health Leadership for Impact Topics Covered
Build a leadership toolkit to guide teams confidently in healthcare, service or innovation settings.
Build resilient teams with effective communication and shared vision.
Improve inter-team working and cross-silo collaboration.
Understanding and successfully navigate complex organisations and private/public sectors to optimise outcomes.
Incorporate policy perspectives and imperatives to improve decision making and outcomes.
Developing a coaching and facilitative leadership style with skills to influence positive outcomes and manage difficult conversations.
Upcoming Sessions
This is a residential program in which participants stay on campus and engage in workshop activities after hours. The program fee covers tuition, meals and accommodation.
Read our full Terms and Conditions and other Frequently Asked Questions for more information.
Applications close:
Cohort 1: 28 January 2026
Cohort 2: 20 May 2026
Prices Ex GST.
If the above dates don’t suit you, please register your interest for any upcoming courses by submitting an expression of interest here.
Health Leadership for Impact Key Facilitators
Jill Klein
Professor of Marketing, Melbourne Business School
Jill Klein is a Professor of Marketing at the Melbourne Business School and a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne. She is an internationally recognised expert in healthcare leadership. She holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan and has held academic appointments at Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) and INSEAD.
Jill’s research focuses on leadership, resilience, and decision making in both business and clinical environments. Her work has been published in leading journals including the British Medical Journal, Medical Education, Journal of Marketing, Management Science, and Journal of Consumer Psychology.
Jill teaches Leadership, Managerial Judgment, and Well-Being/Resilience across programs such as the Bastas Academy for Healthcare Leadership, Senior Executive MBA, and the Women in Leadership Programs.
Jill is a frequent keynote speaker at healthcare conferences and has been featured in many media outlets.
Femke Buisman-Pijlman
Academic Director, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
Associate Professor Femke Buisman-Pijlman is an award-winning educator and recognised leader in health education, curriculum innovation and online learning. As Academic Director (Innovation and Quality) in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne, she leads education innovation across health disciplines.
With a PhD in Medicine and MSc in Biology from Utrecht University, Femke has held academic roles at Leiden University, the University of Adelaide and the University of Trento. She previously directed MSPACE’s multimillion-dollar health teaching portfolio, advancing flexible, high-quality programs for professionals worldwide.
Her interdisciplinary research examines how early life adversity, social connection and resilience shape mental health and addiction. Femke is committed to inclusive, evidence-based education that empowers current and future health leaders to drive positive change.
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Bastas Academy for Health Leadership Scholarships
We are committed to supporting bright and ambitious leaders to take part in Bastas Academy for Health Leadership courses.
Thanks to a generous gift from Dennis Bastas and the support of DBG Health, scholarships of up to 75% of course fees are available for successful applicants.
These scholarships aim to foster diversity, improve access and opportunity, and recognise talent across the Australian health sector. Preference is given to under-represented groups who may face barriers to accessing formal learning.
Please note: Scholarships are not available to employees of DBG Health or affiliated companies.
Scholarship Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible you must:
- Be currently employed in the Australian health sector
- Be an Australian citizen or Permanent Resident
- Intend to complete a Bastas Academy for Health Leadership course and apply your learning to improve the health sector
- Commit to enrolling in and completing the course
*Subject to the scholarship application process.
How to Apply
Scholarships are applied for as part of the course application process.
To be considered:
- 1. Click the “Apply” button next to your chosen course.
- 2. Complete the application form.
- 3. When prompted, select “Yes” to indicate that you would like to be considered for a scholarship.
There is no separate scholarship application form.
Key Dates
- Scholarship applications are now open.
- Applications close four weeks prior to the course start date..
