Ken Whelan

Background

About Ken Whelan

Senior Health Executive with over 30 years as a Senior Manager and 20 of those years as a CEO across a range of Health providers and purchasers from Secondary/Tertiary providers with large rural and indigenous populations to major Quaternary Teaching facilities. Clinically have a Nursing background Key strengths include. Strong collaborative leadership, Organisational change, Performance management and accountability frameworks. Clinical and corporate governance models. Care across continuum rather than silo health. International experience across systems Have remained very patient and frontline staff focussed Goals include: Partnerships both Internal and External functional relationships can change the world Accountability within and across systems to improve patient flow through the system Performance goals to measure success More involvement of frontline staff in decision making and policy direction Specialties: Organisational Change Leadership Governance Funding Models and Performance Frameworks Strategic Thinking Partnerships Machinery of Government Respect in the Workplace Managing Vertical and Horizontal violence in the Workplace