Obafemi Shokoya – Greater China Business Agility Conference

Over the final decade of his 25 year NHS Hospital Clinical Pharmacy career, Obafemi Shokoya was the Chief Pharmacist and transformation architect of three increasingly larger, more complex and challenged hospital Pharmacy Departments. He is now an Innovation Leadership Consultant and Digital Healthcare Consultant working within the health and care, agile leadership, health technology and health charity sectors. Obafemi is also a specialist adviser to organisations involved in the data analytics and artificial intelligence / machine learning spaces within the health and care sector. A seminal member of the INSEAD Business School Healthcare Leadership & Innovation Alumni, he focuses on healthcare outcomes and how digital technology can be leveraged by multi-disciplinary teams to co-create innovation and transformational change across health and care systems.

Topic

Adopting an ‘Agile Mindset’ Approach to the Innovation & Transformation of a Hospital Pharmacy Service Delivery Model

Abstract

Obafemi will highlight some differences between managing and leading and discuss their ‘fit’ in VUCA-G (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous – Global) healthcare settings. He will talk about his experience of what, and most critically ‘who’, he had to change in the Pharmacy Department of the UK’s largest NHS Hospital Trust in order to create and lead an ‘agile innovation mindset’ internal culture.

Obafemi will share his leadership experiences, reflections and insights on personally leading a scrum-sized team that developed an award winning, new hospital clinical pharmacy service delivery model. He will focus on how and the ability to facilitate an ‘agile mindset culture’ is a key skill and component leaders require when facing ‘wicked problems’.