From Concept to Reality: Putting LEADS to Work

Our LEADS journey began more than 10 years ago, and more than 5 years have passed since we published the first edition of this book: Bringing Leadership to Life in Health: LEADS in a Caring Environment. Over the past 5 years, the challenges leaders face have changed markedly in Canada and elsewhere and literature on health leadership has exploded; yet the fundamentals of LEADS-based leadership have withstood the tests of change and time. And as we show in the ensuing chapters, the five domains and 20 capabilities of the LEADS framework, which we call the DNA of health leadership, have been reaffirmed in the living labs of health organizations, put to use in ways we could not have imagined back in 2014.