Amy Boydell Smith

Business Psychologist

Amy connects thinking about long term societal progress with people today. With an underpinning in Psychology (BSc), Organisational Psychology (MSc; MBPSs; MBS Programme Prize) and Cognitive Behavioural Coaching, Amy is interested in exploring and developing the leadership required to work in complexity.

Amy has developed leadership in community, organisational, regional, national and international contexts and holds a varied portfolio ranging from strategy development; commissioning; full cycle intervention design, facilitation and evaluation; academic content development and delivery as well as research.

Within a health context, Amy has led cutting edge projects including integrating the first medical leadership programme into postgraduate medical education; demystifying what system leadership looks like within and across organisations and interventions (mentoring, coaching, talent, inclusion); exploring talent and inclusion in a system context across primary care; using a systems approach to developing international health partnerships; leading a national place-based innovation fund and exploring the conditions required for communities to emerge across health and social care. 

In an international context, Amy created a model for leadership development for use within multidisciplinary international health partnerships. Following a pilot in Lagos, Nigeria, leadership development was rolled out to VISION 2020 eye health ‘links’ across Africa. Building on this, Amy designed and co-delivered a programme to the College for Ophthalmology for Central, Southern and Eastern Africa in Tanzania. In 2015, Amy co-designed and co-delivered the Lead Forward Programme - funded by the Department for International Development. The programme aimed to improve international health partnerships through shared leadership development.

Alongside developing leadership in practice, Amy is a guest lecturer embedding system leadership into a Public Health MSc at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and an Associate Tutor at Manchester Business School. Amy also previously co-wrote and co-delivered a postgraduate module in Educational Leadership at Edge Hill University.