Dr Farnaaz Sharief

Farnaaz is an experienced Medical Director and DISC certified coach with extensive experience in working across organisational boundaries to empower individuals. She understands system’s challenges, is passionate about building relationships, transforming teams, and keeping people focused, motivated and moving.

A GP by background, Farnaaz has over 20 years of experience working with multidisciplinary teams across primary and secondary care. Throughout her extensive career she has developed an in depth understanding of the challenges faced by clinical leaders and delivered a multi-award-winning resilience programme (www.manageyourmind.org), that has seen people improve their psychological well-being, build confidence and enhance fulfilment in their job roles. This saw her feature on the Queen’s birthday honours list in 2018 and receive a British Citizens Award for healthcare at the House of Lords the year before.  She creates safe reflective spaces, using robust coaching methodologies, to inform her approach. Farnaaz encourages people to think differently, recognise their strengths and bring about meaningful change to their personal and professional lives.

Her clinical acumen, leadership style and solution focused approach has strengthened clinical teams across health and care partnerships. This has supported the establishment of placed based clinical collaboratives in Swale and Medway built on mutual trust and respect. As a senior clinical leader, she has led numerous high performing teams, encouraging them to think creatively and deliver new models of care that improve patients’ experience and health outcomes.