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Background: Ensuring the application of person-centred ethics to healthcare practice has been shown to be a complex process, dependent upon individual, group, and organisational factors. Healthcare leaders are argued to have a pivotal role in the culture change needed for such an application, but there is little guidance on how to support healthcare leaders in facilitating a person-centred practice. The Swedish Association of Health Professionals and the University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care have therefore developed a leadership programme with focus on person-centred ethics. This study is part of the scientific exploration and evaluation of this programme. Aim: To explore experiences of the development and realisation of a leadership programme to facilitate the implementation of person-centred care. Methods: Applying a social constructivist research design, focus group discussions with 12 programme management members were conducted digitally and analysed according to the structured method described by Krueger and Casey (2015). This meant that there was a clear focus on the co-creation of knowledge through interaction between participants. Results: Preliminary findings visualise the dynamic nature of programme development and realization as a collaborative journey towards integrating leadership and person-centred ethics. The metaphor of a journey depicts how the programme was described as a joint and ongoing expedition that does not end with the programme. Leadership was carefully integrated with person-centred ethics throughout the programme, in both pedagogical approach and content, to provide leaders with practical tools to use on a day-to-day basis.    Conclusion and implications: Based on our analysis, we draw the conclusion that incorporating person-centred ethics is essential in both the teaching methods and curriculum of leadership programmes to facilitate the implementation of person-centred care. Furthermore, our findings underscore the importance of leadership programmes continuously supporting the merging of leadership principles and person-centred ethics in practice.