Speakers

Liza Collins is an Executive Leadership Coach and NHS Culture Strategist with over 35 years of UK and international healthcare experience, spanning frontline services to system-level transformation.
She is known for her bold work at the intersection of workplace culture, well-being, and systemic innovation — building psychologically safe, high-trust, high-performing teams.

A trauma-informed researcher and author, Liza wrote The NHS: Can It Create a Harassment-Free Environment and Non-Bullying Culture? (2002) and is currently writing The Physiology of Bullying (due late 2025). She has developed a series of coaching journals that help leaders lead through discomfort and support individuals to reclaim their power following workplace harm.
Liza pioneered a new leadership programme underpinned by the latest sociological, psychological, and neuroscience research — equipping emerging leaders to lead with courage, compassion, and clarity in complex systems.

As part of her commitment to upstream change, she created a set of anti-bullying children’s journals that were shared globally during UK and International Anti-Bullying Week.

An Executive Education alumna of Imperial College London (Leading Systemic Innovation in Healthcare), Liza writes a monthly newspaper column on NHS culture and leadership and is regularly invited to speak at national conferences, and large healthcare organisations on toxic leadership, bullying, and compassionate cultures.