Teresa Griffith
Chair
Nurse Lifeline
Teresa Griffith is an executive leadership coach, speaker and business consultant. She is also a non-executive director for North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, chair of the charity Nurse Lifeline and a trustee for the Defence Medical Welfare Service, Scottish Veterans Residences and Trauma UK. She graduated as a nurse from St Bartholomew’s hospital in 1988 and still holds her registration.
Ms Griffith recently left the Royal Air Force after 27 years at the rank of group captain having broken many glass ceilings. As a specialist aeromedical evacuation nursing officer, she deployed across the world to some of the most complex and challenging environments.
She has led at all organisational levels and is skilled in recognising and nurturing individual strengths for the collective achievement of strategic goals. As a medical planner she was responsible for the medical plans for operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, supporting global UN missions and was the RAF medical lead for the Ebola crisis in 2014. As clinical director for overseas defence primary healthcare in 2020, she also led the Covid-19 response, responsible for 13 overseas bases. One of her greatest leadership achievements was relocating defence’s rehabilitation centre from Headley Court to Stanford Hall when she was the commanding officer.
For her leadership, she has been awarded the Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Service, the Associates Royal Red Cross, the OBE and CBE.
Teresa Griffith is speaking at the following sessions on Wednesday 23 October:
Colleagues in conversation: what are the tools available to nursing staff in need of psychological support?