New appointments to FNF Academy Team

An organisation which supports nurses and midwives has welcomed two new leadership development facilitators to its team.

The Florence Nightingale Foundation has welcomed Becky Thomas and Peter Roxburgh to the FNF Academy Team.

They bring a wealth of expertise and experience to the design and delivery of FNF leadership development programmes as it works hard to grow its impact to achieve its aim of reaching one million nurses and midwives by 2027.

Becky Thomas is a recognised nurse leader and is the host and founder of the Leadership Log Podcast, the creator of #High5Friday, and an active FNF Champion and Alumni Member.

Becky has been studying Psychological Safety and is passionate about championing and supporting building and maintaining psychological safety in teams across the professions

She is known as a creative, innovative, and enthusiastic individual with a great passion for nursing and motivated to improve standards of dignity and care for patients and promote the professional identity of nursing. Having 28 years of experience within a wide variety of services, has provided her with comprehensive, highly specialised, and detailed professional knowledge.

Described as having an authentic appreciation of the needs and experiences of staff delivering direct care, with high energy levels and enthusiasm for leadership and quality improvement which is extremely motivating for the staff she engages with.

She has the insight to know that she can always learn and enjoys gaining knowledge and sharing best practice.

Peter Roxburgh has a passion for helping people become truer versions of themselves – whether through coaching, mentoring, group training sessions or just over a warm brew. 

He has a broad range of experience, having overseen marketing, finance, HR, IT, Admin, software projects, impact & evaluation, social entrepreneurship and L&D design and delivery for offices in the US, UK, Netherlands, India and Bangladesh.

A significant portion of his leadership growth came as CFO for an anti-trafficking organisation that grew from 68 staff to 350 staff in three years, with offices in five different countries. 

Peter has designed and delivered a variety of leadership development programmes for organisations such as WHO, Tesco, Ericsson, PWC, Boston Scientific, IFC, and numerous others, delivering for teams across the globe.