Leadership Conversations

Episodet

• Advancing Health Equity in a Time of Retrenchment: On Equity, Value, and the Work Ahead 30.06.2026

  How can health care organizations advance health equity when political, legal, and cultural forces are making the work more difficult?
• Modern Presidential Leadership and Health Care’s Defining Moments 22.06.2026

  How the actions of Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden through personal experience, leadership, and legislature reveal their greatest health care victories while president.
• How CMMI’s Mission Remains the Same Despite Changes in Leadership 18.06.2026

  Two Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation directors, past and present, compare notes on how the center maintains its mission of making care more affordable and accountable through administration changes.
• Rethinking Leadership for Academic Medical Centers: Navigating the Challenges 03.06.2026

  What’s driving the shift from an individual leader for academic medical centers to a team-based operational leader and how to proceed to that transformation.
• Leading Transformation in Rural Health: How Mayo Clinic Health System Is Redefining Care, Culture, and the Use of AI 08.05.2026

  How Mayo Clinic Health System is transforming care for largely rural communities while reshaping culture, workforce, and AI-enabled practice across a widely dispersed network.
• Leading Academic Medical Centers Through Crisis and Renewal: Emory’s Turnaround and New Vision for Greatness 24.04.2026

  How an academic medical center emerged from financial deficits, workforce turnover, and low morale to become a high-performing, trusted system that defines what “great” will mean for academic medical centers in the decades ahead.
• High-Reliability Organizing: Refreshing a Proven Framework for Modern Health Care Challenges 21.04.2026

  How can health care leaders refresh the high-reliability organization (HRO) concept to address today’s workforce shortages, AI integration, and complex care delivery demands?
• How Physician Coaches Can Be Beneficial 23.03.2026

  How a physician coach can create growth through vulnerability and help view clinical practice in an entirely new way.
• Beyond the Hype: How AI Is Finally Delivering on Digital Health’s Promise 04.02.2026

  After a decade of disappointment with electronic health records that turned physicians into data-entry clerks, generative AI is emerging as the transformative force that will restore the physician-patient relationship while solving health care’s most intractable operational challenges.
• Building Community and Empathy Through Health Care Book Clubs 21.10.2025

  NYU Langone Health’s Patient Experience Book Club demonstrates how simple, low-cost initiatives can foster meaningful connections among health care workers while improving professional well-being and institutional engagement through shared reading experiences.
• Fostering Courtesy and Respect Within a Public Health Care System: A Pilot Program 21.10.2025

  A pilot program at Parkland Health uses “courtesy and respect” stickers on hand sanitizer dispensers to make respectful communication as ingrained as hand hygiene.
• How Optum Is Tackling the Primary Care Crisis 08.10.2025

  How one organization is tackling primary care issues by reducing burnout, building team-based models, and using technology to create a better practice environment.
• Teamwork and Touch Base by 12: Building Trust Through Better Communication 24.09.2025

  Working together as a team to better communicate between physicians and nurses as well as the complete caregiving team will enhance the experience for patients.
• Distinguishing the Difference Between Curing and Caring When Treating Patients 19.09.2025

  How to excel at both curing and caring with an understanding of the distinction.
• Scaling AI-Driven Health Care at Optum Amid Industry Transformation 17.09.2025

  How do we produce better health outcomes and an exceptional experience at a lower cost, at scale, every day? Learn how a large health care services company is striving to serve its population’s physical, mental, pharmacy, social, and financial needs through three core areas: value-based care, pharmacy services, and technology...
• Redefining and Structuring Three Soft Skills into Hard Skills 09.09.2025

  Advocating to transform soft skills into hard skills to improve patient and caregiver experiences.
• The (Unique) Role of a Chief Clinical Financial Officer 25.08.2025

  How the importance of physician leadership that understands the financial aspects of health care can lead to unique roles that directly work toward improving patient care and financial operations.
• Accelerating Clinical Technology Adoption Through Human-Centered Implementation Strategies 18.08.2025

  Successful health care technology adoption requires moving beyond the boardroom to understand workflow integration, cultural dynamics, and operational processes that determine whether innovations become indispensable clinical partners or abandoned tools.
• Building a Global Innovation Ecosystem to Transform Health Care from Within 12.08.2025

  Health care transformation requires more than isolated innovation efforts — it demands a global ecosystem where institutions become engines of entrepreneurship, spinning out solutions from within while collaborating across borders to scale impact and achieve financial sustainability.
• The Six Rs in Action: Achieving Operational Excellence and a Common Language at Scripps Health 05.08.2025

  How can a simple, systemwide framework empower 20,000 frontline staff and leaders across Scripps Health to boost retention, reduce costs, and drive operational excellence — all while keeping patients at the center? Dr. Ghazala Sharieff reveals how the six Rs turned bold goals into everyday actions, building a common language...