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Leading with Hearts and Minds

Leading with Hearts and Minds

Written by: National Clinical Leadership Centre for Nursing and Midwifery
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"Leading with Hearts & Minds"

Discover the untold stories behind the leaders shaping the future of healthcare. In "Leading with Hearts & Minds, "We bring you intimate, one-to-one conversations with healthcare professionals who have navigated extraordinary challenges and triumphs.

Each episode reveals the personal journeys, hard-earned lessons, and human moments that define leadership in one of the world's most demanding fields.

Whether you're a healthcare professional, a leader, or simply curious about the heart and mind behind outstanding leadership, this podcast offers inspiration and insight with every story.

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Episodes
  • "Integrity Over Expediency" - Enda Kelly
    May 18 2026

    What does it take to nurse someone whose privacy is gone, whose environment magnifies every symptom, and whose relationship with the health system has, until now, been broken or absent? Enda Kelly has spent more than three decades finding out.

    Enda is National Nurse Manager for Operations with the Irish Prison Service, a Fellow of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and is currently a year into a PhD on the intersection of law, ethics, and prison regulation. In this conversation, he speaks to Marie Kilduff about what prison nursing actually involves — clinically, ethically, and personally — and about the leadership practice he's built over a career.

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    47 mins
  • Trial and Review, Not Trial and Error: Morgan Lucey
    Apr 29 2026

    What does it take to provide therapy to the people who provide care? Marie Kilduff speaks with Morgan Lucey, Head of National Employee Assistance Services in the HSE's Workplace Health and Wellbeing Unit, about the service that supports more than 100,000 healthcare staff across Ireland.

    IF YOU NEED SUPPORT.

    For HSE staff: Phone (national line): 0818 327 327

    Email (referrals): eap.referral@hse.ie

    Online resource hub:

    www.inspiresupporthub.org/HSE-EAPandME

    Website: www.hse.ie/EAPandME

    Credits: Leading with Hearts and Minds is hosted by Marie Kilduff.

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    54 mins
  • Autistic Talent: Adam Harris on Inclusion, Identity and the Future of Healthcare
    Apr 14 2026

    In this episode, Marie Kilduff speaks with Adam Harris, CEO of As I Am, Ireland's national autism charity. Adam is autistic himself, and that lived experience shapes everything he does — from founding As I Am over twelve years ago to leading the organisation's work across healthcare, employment, education and community inclusion.

    Adam speaks candidly about growing up autistic in Ireland in the 1990s, navigating a system that had little awareness of autism, and the isolation he felt as a teenager before finding his voice as a writer and advocate. From that starting point, he built one of Ireland's most respected disability organisations — one that places autistic people at the centre of everything it does.

    In this episode, Adam and Marie discuss:

    • What it means to move beyond awareness towards genuine acceptance of autistic people
    • Why autism should be understood as an accessibility issue, not a deficit
    • The barriers autistic people face when accessing healthcare — and how relatively simple changes can make a significant difference
    • The policy landscape shaping autism support in Ireland includes the Autism Innovation Strategy and the National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People.
    • The Same Chance Report — As I Am's annual state of the community report on autistic life in Ireland

    Contact As I Am

    https://asiam.ie

    17-21 Temple Road, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, A94 DN40

    If you would prefer to contact As I Am by phone to discuss your query, please call (01) 445 3203

    Leading with Hearts and Minds is a podcast from the National Clinical Leadership Centre for Nursing and Midwifery.

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    27 mins
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