Professional athletes, market innovators, art and tech prodigies all have a longstanding tradition of magnifying their skills with expert coaching. As Inc. magazine explains it, “It’s no secret that high performers of all stripes swear by coaching. Everyone from Google’s founders to the rock band Metallica credits coaches with getting them where they are today...Read More

Recent events and mounting industry data illuminate an uncomfortable truth: Implicit bias is prevalent in healthcare, say researchers, and many are unaware. More importantly, it’s hurting patients. As a healthcare leader, we trust that your aim is to ensure that every patient — regardless of background, ethnicity, race, education, sexual orientation, or other factors — gets the...Read More

Healthcare workers are hurting, and the American Psychiatric Association anticipates “a great deal of post-traumatic stress” among medical professionals as the pandemic stretches. As a healthcare leader, supporting the mental health of your team is a critical part of your COVID-19 response, warn researchers. In this post, we’ll cover mitigation tactics to help protect your...Read More

Our brains are story-making machines. When faced with the unknown, those stories always spin negative. The world today is faced with the unknown of COVID-19, and the healthcare environment is moving at an unprecedented pace. As humans, our default setting is to find and focus upon every negative consequence imaginable. That’s fear, and it is paralyzing. Leadership...Read More

“Leaders who believe they can [succeed] without any formal training often succeed for some time, but eventually will encounter critical situations they are not prepared to handle alone. Then they urgently seek the resources to help them succeed, often too late to salvage a career.” ~ Journal of Healthcare Leadership Not all leadership development approaches...Read More

Below is a short reflection of multiple interactions I’ve recently had with several clients. Let’s imagine a healthcare CEO and leader of a large regional delivery system in the Midwest. The conversation is one you could very well have with me or one of my coaching colleagues at MEDI Leadership if you engage our services....Read More

Does it ever feel like leading in healthcare is difficult? Messy? Perhaps it feels like success is just beyond your reach – no matter how much you move forward? I’ve heard all the above from my coaching clients. I assure them (and you) that they (and you) are not alone. Almost every leader in healthcare...Read More

Choose the Best Executive Coach for YOU. I was a hospital CEO at age 31. Honestly, I didn’t know what I was doing. Though I had prepared educationally and professionally, my arrival into the executive chair was premature. But there I was, leading. Perhaps my smartest move in this role was to create a network...Read More

Hospitals and health systems continue to operate in a turbulent, fast-changing environment with relentless pressure to improve an array of performance metrics: patient experience, clinical quality, patient safety and operating costs. While there is much interest in and discussion about structural and transformational change, the formidable barriers to such change have limited their impact. With...Read More

May is National Mental Health Awareness month. It seems like the appropriate time to share my thoughts regarding the stigma that exists regarding Mental Health treatment in the world of Executive Leaders, Physician Leaders, and the like in healthcare. I recently had an intense conversation with a young medical professional, I will refer to him...Read More