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This year’s theme of IWD is ‘choose to challenge’. In this podcast, Deborah Bowen and Samantha Allen share some of the challenges that they have faced in becoming senior leaders, and discussed how they overcome them.

Ms Deborah J. Bowen

American Hospital Association

Ms Deborah J. Bowen

Honorary Member

Deborah J. Bowen, FACHE, CAE, is president and Chief Executive Officer of the American College of Healthcare Executives. This is an international professional society of...

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Samantha Allen, MBA, CCMI, Cmgr

CEO

Sam became Chief Executive of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in March 2017. Sam started work in the NHS in 1996 and has a background...

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