MAP STAFF TEAM

 

 

The Staff Team for MAP have broad experience in the health industry and in action learning leadership and management development programmes.  They may be joined by current senior managers, who will provide guest sessions.

The staff team for each MAP is drawn from the LAMP staff team and who are:

 

Brian Lewis

Brian is the overall project director for LAMP.  He specialises in organisation development and leadership and management development.  He is a Director of Management Consortium who design and deliver LAMP for the New Zealand Health Sector.

Brian was the managing director for the Health Services Management Development Unit in New Zealand.  He has worked closely with Hospital Boards, Area Health Boards, Crown Health Enterprises, Regional Health Authorities, the Health Funding Authority, Hospital and Health Services, the Department/Ministry of Health and a range of other clients in the New Zealand health sector and in other countries.

Brian is also on the staff team for the Top Management Programme.

 

Gillian Biscoe

Gillian's career has included time as a clinical nurse, nurse manager, hospital chief executive, health policy developer, deputy director-general in the New Zealand Department of Health from 1988 - 91, Secretary of ACT Health and Secretary of the Tasmanian Department of Community and Health Services.

Over the last six years she has consulted in over 40 countries in the areas of leadership development, policy analysis, workforce redesign and health system reform.  Her clients include the private sector, NGO sector, governments, the World Health Organisation, Asian Development Bank and various aid agencies.

Gillian is also on the staff team for Health Systems and Management for Clinicians Programme.

 

Jane Bryson

Jane started her career at the State Services Commission before moving into consulting work in New Zealand and Britain.  She was General Manager of Management Consortium (New Zealand).  She is a senior lecturer in Human Resource Management at Victoria University of Wellington and combines this with her consulting activity.

Jane has a masters degree in organisational psychology and a doctorate which examined the comparison between professional and managerial ethics in the health sector.  She has consulted widely in the health sector.

Jane also contributes to other LAMP programmes in her areas of specialist expertise.