Smith Honey
Medical School, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
BMJ Lead. 2025 Sep 2. doi: 10.1136/leader-2025-001217.
This paper explores leadership in planetary health in an emerging grassroots organisation, Greener Practice. Greener Practice, formed in 2017, set out with the intention of creating the UK's Primary Care Sustainability hub and network. In the face of the evolving public health threat of the climate and ecological crisis, planetary health leadership has never been more necessary or urgent. There was a noticeable gap in leadership on this issue within Primary Care, with General Practice teams grossly underfunded, and climate action often seeming low on a list of burgeoning priorities. This article explores how visionary, nurturing and democratic leadership grew a grassroots movement. Through telling the story of Greener Practice's growth and development, I hope to share the lessons I have learned about our joint leadership of an emerging organisation. This paper is a reflection on my personal experience as a leader of an emerging grassroots organisation outside, but working alongside, existing healthcare organisations. I have used the narrative of Greener Practice's growth and establishment on the larger stage to illustrate my own leadership lessons that inform how we support our network's emerging leaders. This paper summarises my personal experience as I have grown and developed as a leader and approached the challenges of leading a grassroots movement. It has five sections entitled Leadership to: engage and inspire; educate and empower; grow the movement; nurture and develop new leaders; and influence systems. After each section, I have drawn out lessons learned in these areas. I conclude with further reflections on the importance of self-awareness, resonant leadership and active hope. Greener Practice aims to be a beacon of hope and inspiration, both for, and through, its leaders; visionary, nurturing and actively hopeful leadership is crucial to support emerging leaders to address the planetary health crisis.
本文探讨了新兴基层组织“绿色实践”（Greener Practice）中的行星健康领导力。“绿色实践”成立于2017年，旨在创建英国的初级保健可持续发展中心及网络。面对气候与生态危机这一不断演变的公共卫生威胁，行星健康领导力从未像现在这样必要和紧迫。在初级保健领域，这个问题的领导力存在明显差距，全科医疗团队资金严重不足，气候行动在众多新出现的优先事项清单上往往排名靠后。本文探讨了有远见、具培育性和民主的领导力如何推动了一场基层运动。通过讲述“绿色实践”的成长与发展故事，我希望分享我在共同领导一个新兴组织过程中学到的经验教训。本文是对我作为一个新兴基层组织领导者的个人经历的反思，该组织虽独立于现有医疗保健组织之外，但与之合作。我利用“绿色实践”在更大舞台上的成长与建立过程来阐述我个人的领导力经验教训，这些经验教训为我们如何支持网络中的新兴领导者提供了指导。本文总结了我作为领导者成长和发展过程中的个人经历，以及应对领导一场基层运动所面临的挑战的过程。它分为五个部分，标题分别为：参与并激励；教育并赋能；壮大运动；培育并发展新领导者；以及影响系统。在每个部分之后，我都总结了在这些方面学到的经验教训。我在结论中进一步反思了自我意识、共鸣领导力和积极希望的重要性。“绿色实践”旨在成为希望与灵感的灯塔，既为其领导者，也通过其领导者来实现；有远见、具培育性且积极充满希望的领导力对于支持新兴领导者应对行星健康危机至关重要。
