Lesley has considerable experience supporting senior clinical and non-clinical leaders in their development and is an associate lecturer with the Allied Manchester Business School. She is also an associate career coach for the London Business School, a faculty member with Aspire Coaching, Managing Director of Rook Tree Coaching and an endpoint assessor on a coaching apprenticeship.

Lesley’s recent work in healthcare includes facilitating action learning sets for systems leaders, aspiring medical leaders, clinical leadership fellows and many others from a range of settings and disciplines; developing and running trainer the trainer programmes in action learning and providing coaching and coach supervision for clinical and non-clinical leaders including in public health and primary care. She has also provided bespoke leadership development in many organisations across the NHS and has supported faculty development in medical and dental education. Lesely originally trained as a paramedic and has held a number of managerial, executive and trustee positions.