AMA Victoria's leadership development offerings follow best practice in education and development for senior leaders. Our programs are highly tailored to support both early-career and senior doctors — those preparing for leadership roles, those interested in developing their leadership potential in current roles, and those stepping into senior positions such as Director and Deputy Director.
What makes our programs special and highly effective is the blend of education and training formats, with personalised coaching and reflective exercises. This approach reflects a global trend in executive education observed in large organisations and top business schools. [1]
A recent study involving 10,000 executive education students from 1,100 organisations found that "71 per cent believed that individual coaching was now a key element in turning classroom learning into action".
This methodology is central to the design of our programs, which aim to deliver education that can be translated into practical actions that can be implemented into the learner’s real-world context immediately.
Our principal leadership educator and coach, Dr Anna Clark (PhD) has trained in academic and business school environments and brings breadth and depth to program design, delivery, and coaching practice. She reflects that leadership in medicine can be lonely. Senior doctors’ leadership duties differ from clinical work, demanding new skills, meetings and interactions with administrative and executive colleagues. Many leadership challenges can’t be discussed with peers or staff, and you may not want to talk about them with family or friends.
Why does this blended format work?
By blending personalised learning plans and coaching methodologies in program design, participants can immediately integrate learning into their current context and apply it to real challenges. This supports deep learning, allowing participants to move flexibly between didactic teaching and the coaching conversational approach, which involves asking questions, finding relevant personal examples, reflecting, and integrating the learning into their current role and context.
When participants experience learning as a conversation, they build the confidence and literacy to discuss and practice it beyond the educational setting. They can share reflections with others and respond to colleagues when they share their experiences.
What are our current programs?
- Leadership education program for early career doctors (Emerging Leader Program)
- Leadership education program for senior doctors (Middle Leader Program)
- Leadership coaching program for early career doctors
- Leadership coaching program for senior doctors
- Creating psychological safety at work
- Communication skills for interpersonal and team communication – coming soon
Our programs embed best practice in adult professional development through a modular design that delivers content across multiple sessions with time to reflect and apply new skills in your work. Formal teaching is supported by diverse reference materials — current articles, videos, podcasts — and integrated with one-to-one coaching and peer learning in small groups. Participants develop highly personalised action plans to guide leadership skill growth, expand their professional network and support self-care and wellbeing.
Anna is available to discuss how one of our programs could support you – book a leadership chat here.