GFF Country Leadership Program

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About the Country Leadership Program (CLP)

Country leadership lies at the core of the GFF’s collaborative model and is crucial to driving transformational change. Leaders from across the GFF’s 36 countries who have been championing successful efforts to improve the health of women, children and adolescents have expressed a need to further enhance leadership impact. As part of its new strategy, the GFF’s Country Leadership Program will enable leaders, to learn from one another and equip them with the skills and support to drive systemic change across health systems.

Program Goals

Enhance country leadership impact in response to systemic challenges, in an effective, sustainable, and transformative manner.
Convene and offer state-of-the-art knowledge and specialized know-how in areas such as integrated governance, systems change, and evidence-informed policy.
Provide a space for country top leaders in the health arena to meet with peers from other countries and collaborate to find innovative responses to specific leadership challenges.
Create a vibrant network of program alumni inspired by the country-driven, results-oriented GFF approach.

Program Content and Faculty

Peter Merry - Transformative Leadership

Dr. Peter Merry is co-founding Chief Innovation Officer at Ubiquity University. He has worked in and across different sectors. As well as co-founding and leading various organizations, his experience includes facilitating integral change processes in multinational corporations, and government ministries, and in multistakeholder initiatives with global stakeholders. He has also spent many years in the not-for-profit sector. He is a recognized expert in the field of futureproof learning, evolutionary systems dynamics, and integral leadership.

Laura Cabrera - Systems Thinking

Laura Cabrera (B.S., M.P.A, & PhD, Cornell) teaches Systems Thinking, Modeling, and Leadership at Cornell University. She is also Co-Founder and Senior Researcher at the Cabrera Research Lab and Co-Founder of Plectica (now Frameable). Cabrera applies her expertise in research methods and translational research to increase public understanding, practical application, and dissemination of sophisticated systems science and systems thinking models. In 2018, she received an NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant for her work about innovative ways to map and assess understanding via cognitive mapping.She has authored five books: Systems Thinking Made Simple: New Hope for Solving Wicked Problems and Thinking at Every Desk: Four Simple Skills to Transform Your Classroom (Norton), Flock Not Clock: Design, Align, and Lead to Achieve Your Vision.  She is currently co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Systems Thinking, and a member of the USMA’s Systems Engineering Advisory Board. 

Derek Cabrera - Systems Thinking

Derek Cabrera (PhD, Cornell), an internationally known systems scientist, is faculty at Cornell University who teaches systems thinking, leadership, and mapping. He is senior scientist at Cabrera Research Lab, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Plectica, and inventor of the Plectica systems mapping software. He is author of eight books: Systems Thinking Made Simple: New Hope for Solving Wicked Problems, Thinking at Every Desk, and Flock Not Clock: Design, Align, and Lead to Achieve Your Vision. Cabrera is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Systems Thinking. He was Research Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) for the Study of Complex Systems and NSF IGERT Fellow in Nonlinear Systems in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Cornell University. He serves on USMA’s Systems Engineering Advisory Board. Cabrera developed and patented a suite of systems thinking tools for use in academia, business, and beyond. 

Filipe Teles - Integrated Governance

Filipe Teles has worked with and across different sectors. As an expert and consultant he has worked with several European institutions and agencies, as well as in other global contexts where he has acted as consultant and policy advisor in topics related to decentralization, local governance, inter-institutional collaboration and integrated governance.   He is a political scientist in the University of Aveiro, Portugal, where he teaches courses in the fields of Public Policy and Governance, and currently acts as Pro-rector for Regional Development. He holds a PhD in Political Science and has developed research work on subnational governance, territorial reforms, and political leadership.

Peter Hansen - Evidence-based & Results-driven Policy

Peter Hansen leads GFF’s Results workstream. Previously, Peter co-led Results for Development’s health portfolio and served as director of the Health Systems Strengthening Accelerator. He also worked at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, where he led a department responsible for accelerating the introduction and scale up of innovations and ensuring scientific and technical quality of investments totaling nearly $4 billion per year in over 100 countries. He also worked at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, where he led the monitoring and evaluation function and investments in strengthening country data systems and capacities.

Lisa Lahey - Change Leadership

Lisa is Founder of Minds At Work, a coaching and consulting firm serving businesses and institutions around the world, and is on the faculty of Harvard University where leads the Personal Mastery program in the Doctorate Program for Educational Leaders for aspiring public-school superintendents and other leaders. Lahey and collaborator Robert Kegan are credited with discovering the “immunity to change,” a dynamic which impedes personal and organizational transformation. Her work helps people to close the gap between their good intentions and behaviors. This work is used worldwide by executives, senior teams and individuals in business, governmental, and educational organizations.

Program Partner Leads

Yomi Abiola - The Fem League

Yomi is driven by her mission: the advancement of women as the key to human growth. As a media entrepreneur, founder of The Fem League and an international voice for cultural curiosity and inclusive leadership, Yomi has advised and presented at Harvard, Yale, Milken Institute, MIT, the United Nations, The Wilson Center, and TED. She is a graduate of Columbia School of Journalism, Sciences Politiques Paris, and Harvard. She has served as an associate to the UNESCO Chair for Human Rights, an MIT Legatum Catalyst, and as an editor at Vogue Italia. She currently serves as the Scandinavian Alumni Ambassador for The Harvard Kennedy School.

Scott Gregory - Hogan

As Hogan’s CEO, Scott brings years of expertise in executive selection, development, and succession to his leadership and vision for all aspects of Hogan’s domestic and global business. Scott was one of the first employees of Hogan Assessment Systems and completed his Ph.D. training under Bob and Joyce Hogan, the firm’s founders. His work on the firm’s foundational assessments led to extensive experience in several global consulting firms and a 12-year stint as vice president of talent management and OD for Pentair, a global manufacturing business, where he was responsible for global management and executive recruiting, selection, development, and succession planning. He returned to Hogan in 2013 to continue to help clients leverage the science of personality. Scott is a frequent speaker on personality in the workplace, and his thought leadership has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fortune, and other global publications. He has coached CEOs and other executives, consulted with half of the Fortune 100, and worked extensively with personality assessment in North America, South America, Australia, Asia, and Europe.

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