Alex Barclay leads education strategy and capability development at the Helix Centre, part of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London. 

He helps healthcare organisations recognise unrealised potential, build the capability to realise it, and create the conditions for lasting improvement. Through executive education, human-centred design, organisational development and collaboration with healthcare leaders, he develops practical approaches that enable innovation to deliver meaningful improvements for patients, staff, organisations and health systems.

Over the past two decades, Alex has worked across consulting, healthcare, academia and design-led innovation, including roles with BCG, Accenture and Alvarez & Marsal, as well as founding Fuzzy, a healthcare innovation practice. Across these settings he has helped healthcare providers, life sciences organisations and public sector organisations strengthen innovation capability, improve organisational performance and translate strategic ambition into sustainable change.

His current work is grounded in the belief that healthcare already possesses far more potential than it routinely realises, and that lasting improvement depends not only on better technologies, but on building the leadership, relationships, organisational capability and system readiness needed to adopt, implement and sustain change effectively. Drawing together insights from healthcare leaders, frontline practitioners and transformation programmes, he explores one central question: why do so many promising innovations fail to deliver their expected value in practice?

At Frontiers Health, Alex will contribute perspectives from this work to discussions on AI, healthcare transformation and the organisational conditions required to move beyond innovation hype towards meaningful, equitable and lasting improvement.