Expert to CEO® MBA candidate · 2025
Shagufta Khan
Optometrist and founder of The Mindful Clinician
Shagufta helps healthcare teams and leaders create healthier, fairer and more sustainable work cultures. Drawing on more than 20 years on the clinical front line, she works with organisations to tackle burnout, moral injury and workplace dysfunction with honesty and evidence-led action.
How Shagufta helps
Shift the culture, not just the policies
Strategic consultancy
Working with healthcare organisations, from clinical teams to leadership boards, to understand what is really driving burnout and dysfunction, and what to change.
Brave conversations
Through The Mindful Clinician podcast, honest conversations with people working in healthcare about what good culture looks like and how to build it.
Workshops
Practical sessions, launching soon, to help teams put compassionate leadership into practice and rethink what productivity means in a service setting.
Candidate portfolio
From the clinic to the boardroom
Shagufta is a qualified optometrist with over two decades of frontline experience, and she has held leading roles on several boards in her profession. She has seen the pressures on healthcare staff from both sides: in the consulting room and at board level.
That experience led her to found The Mindful Clinician, a culture-first platform and consultancy for the healthcare sector. Its work brings together lived experience, organisational insight and a commitment to systems change.
She believes in compassionate leadership, brave dialogue and evidence-led action, and in looking honestly at burnout and moral injury rather than papering over them. Her aim is workplaces where clinicians can do their best work without paying for it with their own wellbeing.
Through the Expert to CEO® MBA, Shagufta is building The Mindful Clinician into a consultancy and training business that helps healthcare organisations change their culture, not just their policies.
Studying with She's In Business
Part of the Expert to CEO® MBA
Shagufta is one of the women on our Expert to CEO® MBA, the programme for experts ready to run their expertise as a business.
