- I think a course like this is important because healthcare leadership is rarely catered for this specifically in leadership programmes. They're often quite generic.

- I think a leadership programme focused on healthcare is, it's just enormously important. You have got the whole of the healthcare system in the room. You've got people in leadership positions across the globe in lots of different roles and lots of different organisations.

- And so that enables the process, I think, where through the questions they can ask of each other, through the listening really well to each other. They can make sense both of what's been going on in the day, but also help each other with each other's challenges.

- And it's a really powerful experience being in a room with a group of people where there's trust, where there's a facilitation of learning. In order to leave that room and to leave that process in some way changed and transformed.

- As a healthcare leader, you have to lead with your heart and your head, and the sessions were amazing in exposing the participants to world-leading experts who were able to talk about the technical skills of leadership.

- Healthcare, you're negotiating all the time. You're negotiating with patients, doctors and doctors and patients, clinicians and non-clinicians. You're negotiating with lots of stakeholder groups, hospital boards, governments, and it's a really, really powerful leadership trait. So in my session, we look at some of the key principles of negotiation, and specifically, how they can be applied in the healthcare environment.

- The programme has been very innovative in its approach and has used blended teaching methods, some didactic work, group work. There was tutorial, performance work. But also importantly, time to sit down, and think about what we've learned.

- What was great here were the practical tools that we were given. So you have courage and you have heart, but what are the things that you are going to do with your hands? And so that was really, really great for me to bring all of that together.

- It's been a real luxury to spend some time thinking about things, to sit back and really engage with all the global mega trends from around the world.

- It doesn't give you solutions to your problems, but it forces you to think, are we looking at things in the right perspective? Are we anchoring to what has been told to us in the past or what we see that others are doing? We all managed to open up to our internal challenges as well as career challenges, and that was incredibly valuable.

- What surprised me most about the programme is just how much we've been able to fit in in one week. I feel like I've been here for six months.

- Many nationalities, many healthcare systems, many professions. The people that attended this programme represent the world. That's the world we have to care for and the work for.

- Oxford has a tremendous reputation as a place that extends your thinking, and that's why I wanted to come here to think differently, meet different people, come up with different perspectives, and it's absolutely exceeded my expectation.