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Liza Collins

Liza Collins

NHS Leadership Academy Executive Leadership Coach, NHS England

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.

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