Leadership and Management in Healthcare
Provides direction for decision-making in which quality and employee satisfaction reinforce each other
Start date
November 9, 2026, Campus Utrecht
Duration
Duration of 5 months: 3 times a 2-day block of lectures on location
Language
Dutch
Costs
€ 7600
Rankings
TIAS Executive Education is ranked #1 in the Netherlands for participant satisfaction by the Financial Times, with a score of 8.7 out of 10.
Result
TIAS-certificate, stackable towards an Master of Health Administration (MHA)
Introduction
The Dutch healthcare sector faces unprecedented challenges: an aging population, staff shortages, rising costs, and increasing complexity. At the same time, the bar is higher than ever: better care, at lower costs, with healthier populations and satisfied professionals – the core of the Quadruple Aim. As a leader, how do you ensure that your organization remains agile and relevant in this dynamic playing field?
In the Advanced Program Leadership and Governance in Healthcare, you will explore the key role of leadership and governance in realizing future-proof healthcare. You will delve into themes such as culture, supervision, trust, ethics, and change management – with an eye for the strategic challenges. Personal leadership is a common thread throughout the program: through classroom sessions and individual coaching, you will work specifically on your values, self-insight, and effectiveness. Based on the conviction that leading others begins with leading yourself, you will develop a clear picture of what is administratively possible within healthcare organizations and what your role as a leader can be in this regard.
A standalone Advanced Program or stackable as a module within the MHA
By participating in this program, you will complete a module of TIAS’s Executive Master of Health Administration. You will learn, discuss and collaborate with participants taking the full MHA, immediately immersing you in an ambitious and strategic learning environment. This module can be taken as a standalone Advanced Program and, should you choose to continue later, can count toward the full Executive Master of Health Administration.
Participant profile
You hold strategic responsibility within healthcare, or aim to grow into that role. You understand the key role of leadership in creating future proof healthcare and want to help drive innovation and sustainable change from your position.
In this program, you will broaden your perspective through insights from academia and practice, as well as through exchange with participants from different parts of the healthcare sector.
Average demographics
40 years | 70% women & 30% men | From all over the NetherlandsAverage work experience
12 years of relevant work experience
Why this program
Managers and administrators in healthcare who are attuned to what their organization needs have a positive impact on the performance and satisfaction of their employees in the current context of shortages within the healthcare sector. And thus on the performance and future-proofing of their organization. In this program, you will link scientific knowledge and insights about leadership, coordination, cultural change, collaboration, and supervision to the complex challenges facing healthcare administrators. In this way, you will develop the insight and tools needed to realize future-proof solutions.
What will the program bring you?
You will increase your knowledge and understanding of leadership in healthcare, including the essential role of trust and the impact of leadership styles.
You will delve into the governance structure and its implications for healthcare and your organization in particular.
You strengthen your personal leadership by increasing your insight into your leadership competencies, reflecting critically on them, and applying the resulting new insights.
In the context of responsible leadership, you will explore the possibilities of integrating healthcare management into a relevant social context.
About this program
Program content
In this program, you will delve into all aspects of leadership, management, and governance specifically focused on healthcare and translate this into the practice of your own (healthcare) organization. You will focus on responsible leadership and explore how you can increase the social relevance of your organization. You will also consider trust, ethical conduct, organizational culture, and collaboration.
Because leading yourself comes before leading others, you will work intensively on personal leadership in classrooms, working groups, and individual coaching sessions. You will gain the confidence to directly apply new insights from scientific concepts and models in your own healthcare organization.
Program structure
The advanced program has a blended design. The online component is partly classroom-based and partly individual, at a time of your choosing. The offline component consists of three 2-day interactive lecture blocks at TIAS Utrecht. In addition, you will have two individual coaching sessions on personal leadership.
This design ensures an optimal learning environment and high learning efficiency. Starting with the joint online kick-off session, everyone will be given the tools to engage in high-level discussions with each other during the lectures. These discussions will contribute to inspiration for future-proof solutions that your organization needs to remain agile and relevant in a dynamic healthcare sector.
Time investment and certificate
The program duration is five months: three two-day lecture blocks on location and two months of preparation for assessment. The study load is 12-15 hours per week. Upon successful completion, you will receive a certificate of participation that can ultimately count toward an Executive Master of Health Administration degree, provided you complete all four standalone advanced programs based on the modules of this master's program and complete your graduation assignment.
Modules
Blok D - Leiderschap en besturen in de zorg
Delve into the key role of leadership and governance in realizing future-proof healthcare, in a context of staff shortages and increasing quality requirements.
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