Background: The strategic response of nurses in addressing health inequities in marginal sectors led to the conduct of a health leadership governance training program for local chief executives.

Results: The findings generated six themes: a) Leadership capacitation promoting transformative experience, b) Pandemic and program-induced limitations in the training implementation, c) Personal leadership motivation, d) Experiential learning promoting learning as applied in real-world situations, e) Celebrating leadership transformation, and f) 3R’s of MLGP: revisit, review, recommend. 

Conclusion: The realizations of the training participants provided valuable implications for the quality of training offered by nurse leaders who advocated the MLGP implementation. It served as a proactive and responsive approach to the health leadership capacitation of LCEs. It guided them in their personal realizations that inspired them to apply what they had learned and enabled them to effect experiences of personal to institutional transformation

Philip Jerome A. Flores, MSN, RN is the Standards and Academic Partnership Manager at the Zuellig Family Foundation Institute for Health Leadership in the Philippines. He has specialized training in bridging leadership, learning and development, and health leadership and governance. He has worked as a clinical instructor and lecturer at Saint Mary’s University in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines, and has served as a Quality Assurance and Capacity Development Expert for the Health Sector under the Ministry of Education in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.