Global Health Leadership Program 2026

Rethinking Leadership in Global Health

A Peer-Led Mentoring & Co-Development Programme

Why this matters

Global health institutions face growing pressure—from donors, staff and partners—to deliver on equity, decolonisation and effective leadership. Yet leadership models remain largely unchanged. Emerging leaders, particularly from the Global South, are often appointed without adequate support or voice, increasing organisational risk and limiting impact.

The gap

Traditional leadership training and mentoring reproduce hierarchy and focus on adapting individuals to systems that no longer work. Real transformation requires changing how leadership is shared, supported, and practiced.

Our response

A peer-led, co-development programme connecting leaders across geographies and institutions to address real leadership challenges together. The programme replaces top-down mentoring with mutual learning, trust-based dialogue, and practical problem-solving, supported by insights from experienced senior leaders.

The Program

This is our new and fifth Leadership program. Every year, you help us evolve the contents and processes to another level. Your feedback at the end of 2024 made it very clear that you wanted to deepen your professional development through one-to-one coaching and GAGGA have slightly increased their budget to make this available.

You also wanted to build on previous learning and application and sharpen your skills around organisational development. We sense an appetite to face into Gender-Sensitive Leadership and what that means for you. And we hear your interest in wanting the opportunity to learn together, to find solidarity in tackling common challenges and to share collective wisdom.

Anticipated topics are: your confidence in leadership; prevention of burnout and strengthening resilience for you and your teams; deepening coordination and collaboration; flexing your leadership style; creating a positive legacy and conversations around the future of funding.

Program Timeline

Workshop 1– Weds May 7th, 1400 UK time
Workshop 2– Weds May 14th, 1400 UK time
Workshop3 – between 16^th May-3^rd June

Please look closely at these dates and make sure that you are available before applying. It is essential that you can make all three workshops.

The times and dates are fixed. All sessions will be held on Zoom.

Thank you for your interest in this programme. Register closes ………

Workshop 1

Our modules are highly interactive, participatory and immediately applicable to your professional context. The space allows you to go deeper into a specific aspect of effective organisational development – for instance how you manage complex, multi-cultural workforce; how to generate inspiring meetings; how do you embed a culture of continuous feedback; how to create a winning strategy. All of these and much more are essential to growing your people and processes.

Furthermore, you will receive material resources to support your learning and ongoing practices.

Each module is 90 mins at 1400 UK time
Facilitated and designed by Kairos expert in each subject
Kairos Facilitator will provide practical tools, guiding questions and applied learning techniques
Additional materials will be supplied as a Practice and Reflection Guide

Workshop 2

These virtual sessions are designed to provide a space for peers to connect, exchange challenges and experiences within a structured framework. The Peer Learning Groups can be themed, e.g. around pre-determined challenges that emerge from the needs assessment; or they can be “emergent”, whereby attending peers choose a challenge to work on in each session. Great for building trust in the community and accelerating learning and collaboration.

Each session is of 90 mins duration
Peer sessions take place in smaller group of up to 7 participants
The Kairos facilitator will provide structure and guiding questions and encourage peer exchange, reflection and applied learning
Once established, facilitation can be handed over to the network to strengthen capacity and agency. Kairos can provide mentoring support to build and improve facilitation skills

Workshop 3

One-to-one coaching is a powerful, intimate learning space for generating self-awareness, seeing new options and possibilities and moving through challenges and barriers in the working environment. The sessions last one hour and, in this time, your coach will clarify your objectives, explore the issues with powerful questions, bring tools and frameworks for generating fresh thinking and new perspective and finally, work with you to co-design actions and practices to take into the world – shifting your habits and patterns for different results.

The coaching is a perfect space for deepening your learning from the OD workshop modules and Peer learning Groups. You will be encouraged to capture topics and issues that are meaningful to you that you would like to explore further.