Vijaya Nath Biography

Vijaya brings over 31 years of experience in developing leaders in the private and not-for-profit sector. For the past 22 years she has worked with leaders in health and care and higher education, in the four countries of the UK and internationally. She has significant experience in designing, developing and delivering innovative leadership programmes and senior organisational development consultancy.

Vijaya was the recent past Director of Leadership Development at the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and Director of Leadership Development at The King's Fund, London. She has established a portfolio of interventions including networks, collaborations with political influencers, a suite of open programmes and thought leadership in medical leadership. She designs and collaborates with external partners on a number of international leadership retreats that feature learning from health and non-health organisations that are leading-edge in quality, innovation, healthy work cultures and leadership.

Vijaya founded Contemplative Spaces in April 2018 where she works with senior leaders and their teams to support their successes in leading effective organisations in which staff and users flourish. Contemplative Spaces works experientially utilising stimuli based locally and globally in Museums, Galleries and other spaces which promote thought and creativity.

Vijaya has published and continues to write papers on Leadership Development and has influenced thought leadership in the areas of Medical Engagement, Quality Improvement in Health, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and the importance of advancing Women in Leadership. She is a visiting professor at Milan's SDA Bocconi School of Management. Vijaya was appointed as a trustee of Windsor Leadership in 2017 and also served as Chair on the Chairs and Facilitators Executive.

Vijaya is an EMCC accredited executive coach with over 10,000 coaching hours’ experience. She is an experienced ‘C’ suite and Board level facilitator and coach.