S3E8: Leading with Character, interview with Nicky Burns-Muir

Leading from Your Core

May 25 2022 • 39 mins

LFYC | S3 E8 – Obi Abuchi interviews Nicky Burns-Muir

On this week’s Leading from Your Core Podcast and Vodcast, Obi Abuchi interviews Nicky Burns-Muir.

Nicky has been the Executive Chief Nurse at MKUH since April 2019.

She is known as a compassionate, credible and experienced executive nurse leader with a breadth of

knowledge and experience in leading teams across acute, tertiary and community services in the delivery

of high-quality care.

Nicky combines authentic visible leadership with an ability to understand national and local drivers

and translate them into organizational delivery.

She is also the Executive Lead for the BAME network and is committed to the equality, diversity and

inclusion agenda within the workplace for all staff and patients, as well as empowering staff to achieve

their own and wider team’s full potential.

In this episode:

- Understanding leadership as a never-ending journey

- Leadership as a task vs leadership as a privilege

- Reframing challenges to increase your energy and focus

- Leaders as champions of the under-represented

- The joy of lifting others up as a leader

- Developing your leadership skills through reverse-mentoring

- Proactively embracing feedback to keep your ego in check

- The vulnerable path of growth as a leader

- Insights from the unprecedented challenges of COVID in the health sector

- The importance of self-care in leadership

- Becoming comfortable with purposeful conflict

- The importance of balancing power with character

You can find out more about Nicky via the link below:

Twitter: @nicolaburnsmuir

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicola-burns-muir-9a0bb466

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