Through my interaction on LinkedIn, I reconnected with a former NHS boss. She saw my work on LinkedIn doing my research and the conference that I was organising for 19 March 2022. She got in touch, and we had a chat about the persistent issues within the NHS, the development of the ICSs, and the pressures brought about by the pandemic. It has led to major recruitment, retention, and transformation challenges within the NHS and the broader health and social care sector. I shared some of the findings of my PhD research into highly skilled migrant women and my understanding of the broader workforce transformation, recruitment, and retention topics through my immersion into the various literature on organisational leadership and Human Resources Management (HRM). We also discussed why I held the conference on highly skilled migrant women and leadership, how organisations are missing the trick by recruiting workers internationally but failing to look after...