As a healthcare leader, you’ll encounter plenty of situations that require you to build or repair trust quickly. How do you move quickly to a position of trust? MEDI President Lee Angus shares a few practices he’s used to build trust quickly, and how you can do the same.
Lee Angus
Lee Angus is president of MEDI Leadership, an executive coaching firm focused exclusively on leadership development in the healthcare industry. A sought-after coach and consultant for nearly 25 years, Lee has directly coached over 1,000 executives and 300 teams in healthcare payer, provider, physician multidisciplinary practices and other healthcare-focused organizations ranging from very small to the largest in the nation. In doing so, he’s helped leaders navigate complex organizational changes and bring radical, measurable transformation to the way business and patient care are delivered.
Lee subscribes to an “inside-out” approach to leadership development, beginning with a focus on personal awareness and understanding of the leader’s strengths and opportunities for growth. As the collaboration progresses, the focus moves outward to the team and organization — optimizing team performance, organizational culture, and results. Lee fosters trust-based relationships and ongoing collaboration with each client to maximize their learning and development.
As president of MEDI Leadership, Lee focuses on the development of employed and independent, contracted MEDI coaches through training and apprenticeship into the MEDI Method™. In addition to his work with executive and senior leaders, Lee is best known for accelerating the effectiveness and impact of a wide variety of health industry clients.
Lee’s early career path had an accelerated growth progression at Deloitte. In that role, he led the implementation of complex organizational systems that drove culture change, similar in size and scope to the adoption of electronic records in healthcare. Through that experience, Lee learned the critical value of leadership: “If leaders aren’t leading right, it doesn’t matter what you build the structure doesn’t matter,” he explains. Since then, Lee has consulted worldwide with executives and organizations that are leaders in their industries, including the following:
Health Systems Academic Medicine
- Virginia Mason Franciscan Health
- CommonSpirit Health
- Ascension Health
- AMITA Health
- Billings Clinic
- Intermountain Healthcare
- Texas Health Resources
- Centura Health
- Advent Health
- Orlando Health
- Corewell Health
- SSM Health
- Mission Health
- UMass Memorial Health
- The Queen’s Health System
Academic Medicine
- University of Michigan
- Wake Forest University
- University of Virginia Health System
- University of Hawaii Medical School
Across Healthcare
- Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA)
- The Joint Commission
- Navvis
Beyond Healthcare
- Microsoft
- Intel
- Janus Capital
- Deloitte
- PWC
- Mastercard
- NASDAQ
Lee earned his bachelor’s of science degree in Accounting and master’s degree of Accounting in Information Systems, both from Brigham Young University. He is also a certified public accountant.
Beyond his professional responsibilities, Lee and his family enjoy fishing, backpacking, camping and skiing in the backcountry of Colorado.
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