What is Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)? For over 35 years, the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society has led innovative programs transforming the practices of medicine and psychology through the integration of mindfulness in the education and training of health care professionals. Using the tools of science, their research is focused on

Leveraging LinkedIn By Ellen Mahoney, Fernando Limbo, Lida Junghans, Priya Heatherly LinkedIn is a valuable tool for building and sustaining your network and for being contacted about possible new career opportunities.  As a health care executive search firm, we are retained by clients to find leaders for their organizations.  We use LinkedIn extensively to find

You’ve heard lectures and read books about improving employee engagement and accountability. Great ideas, but what happens when you try to implement them? Join us for this Webinar and learn how one organization applied Reality-Based Leadership: what they did, how they did it and what has happened.

Our speakers are Cassandra Tembo and Gwenevere Josey, Chief Administrative Officer and Director of HR Strategic Support from Cedar Lake, in Louisville KY, a non-profit organization that supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. 

For organizations that compete in a volatile, uncertain, chaotic, and ambiguous (VUCA) business environment, the ability to effectively identify, develop, and deploy executive talent in critical leadership roles is a sustainable source of competitive advantage. To effectively prepare for the unprecedented departure of leadership talent while aligning people development practices in an uncertain business environment, organizations must develop succession management capabilities—the talent management and succession planning practices that enhance bench strength in critical leadership positions, ensure smooth transitions in executive roles, and cultivate leadership talent across the organization.

Our speaker, Kevin S. Groves, Ph.D., discusses the Succession Management Capabilities (SMC) framework, which captures succession planning, talent assessment, and leadership development practices critical for driving performance outcomes in VUCA environments. The session will cover compelling lessons from nationally prominent healthcare organizations, including Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland Clinic Health System, and Sutter Health. Captured in his recently released book, the SMC framework and lessons from the healthcare industry offer a practical template and a series of best practices and policy recommendations for enhancing succession performance outcomes.

If you’re not consistently and consciously building your professional network, you’re losing ground. This session provides insights about expanding and strengthening your professional network. 

Poor food intake is known to lead to malnutrition in long-term care, but determinants of food intake are not fully understood, hampering the development of interventions to maintain the nutritional status of residents.  Our speaker is Professor. Heather Keller, the Schlegel Research Chair in Nutrition & Aging at the University of Waterloo. This webinar is based on her research regarding resident, unit, staff, and facility variables associated with food intake and strategies for improving food intake.

Collaboration between and among physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other clinical and administrative professionals will play an increasingly important role in the future of healthcare. This webinar highlights the findings of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study designed to identify practices that promote effective interprofessional collaboration (IPC). We define the practices, explore their potential to contribute to a culture of IPC, and look at their impact on high quality, patient-centered care through specific examples of innovative pilots and initiatives from leading healthcare institutions across the country.

Involved and experienced physician leaders are essential for healthcare organizations to meet the growing challenges of today’s healthcare environment. Physician leaders are now an integral part of the senior management team and require an expanded skillset and experience.

With the rapidly changing healthcare landscape, developing leadership talent in organizations is critically important. This is not a one-time task, but a process and a commitment. Our speaker, Susan Servais, ZurickDavis Senior Vice President, will discuss major bumps on the succession planning road–with advice on how to smooth them out.

Achieving high quality, high value, safe care in a financially constrained environment is a given for today’s healthcare providers. Optimally matching the capacity to deliver care to patient demand patterns is at the heart of our ability to achieve these goals. Our speaker, Sandeep Green Vaswani, is from the Institute for Healthcare Optimization, a not for profit organization focused on bringing the science and practice of operations management to healthcare delivery.