Welcome to another episode of the Scholar Spotlight Sessions In these episodes we talk to past and present Florence Nightingale Foundation scholars and chat about why they wanted to be scholars and their leadership journey In this episode we talk with Colette Datt. Colette has undertaken a Florence Nightingale (FNF) Aspiring Nurse Director scholarship Colette is currently the Associate Director of Nursing for Children and Young People at North Middlesex Hospital. Colette actively champions compassionate leadership and patient experience. She is very keen on supporting the development of the more junior members of her teams and she is an active mentor. She is currently working with her trust, FNF and 3 local Health Education Institution’s piloting a coproduced leadership programme for student nurses. She is keen to ensure student nurses and medical students are supported to work together in multi-disciplinary teams to learn from each other, to have a voice/perspective in service development and delivery and to undertake quality improvement projects. She is determined to use her leadership skills, knowledge and experience to positively influence patient outcomes and staff experience and wellbeing. One of Colette's dinner guest is Yvonne Coghil - Yvonne is currently the Director – WRES Implementation in NHS England, and deputy president of the RCN. Follow Colette on Twitter: @datt_colette The Production Crew have pledge to raise $10,000 to fund a scholar for 2022/23 if you would like to donate please visit our go fund me page:  Just Giving Scholars Scholarship   To find out more about Florence Nightingale scholarships click here   Keep up to date and follow @leadership_log on Twitter. Our DMs are always open. If you do tweet about us don’t forget to use these hashtags to help us follow the conversations: #EverydayLeadership #ScholarSpotlightSession Follow and subscribe to our shows on anchor or you can find them on all the MAJOR podcast platforms For more information or if you would like to record an episode with us then please drop us an e-mail at:  admin@theleadershiplog Disclaimer Thanks for listening to the leadership log where we are navigating everyday leadership. This is a non affiliated podcast in any views, thoughts and opinions expressed by the hosts or guests belong solely to them, and not necessarily to their employer, organization, committee or other group or individual