Journal of Palliative Care & Medicine
Open Access

Abstract

There has been much written about Creative Leadership over the past 10 years (McCauley et al 2006; Stoll 2008). Major issues associated with leadership in hospices in the 21st century were also mentioned in the Final Report of the commission into the Future of Hospice Care (2013) in the form of an undeveloped workforce and also the fact that leaders will need to be developed from within existing hospice staffing structures in order to achieve major change. This paper will explore the benefits of the artist as leader. The author began a career in the hospice movement over 25 years ago and has moved from working as an Arts Practitioner, through various senior management roles and recently took on the role of Chief Executive at a hospice in the South of England. Three main topics will be considered: 1. The structures, systems and discipline of artistic processes and the benefits of these in relation to developing strategy and leading teams as well providing frameworks for innovation 2. The importance of the experiences and thinking processes of the disciplined artist when calculating risk and the potential of working through and beyond it in order to take risks to achieve preferred outcomes 3. The impact of �flow and poise� on succesfully achieving major change within organisations Examples of innovation and change from within a number of hospices that the author has worked in will be given to highlight the issues rasied, as well as references to the latest research in the field. Specific focus will be given on the benefits that the experienced art ist can bring to leadreship within the 21st Century hospice movement.

Biography

Email: nigel.hartley@iwhospice.org