Engage with high-caliber thought leaders who are changing the face of healthcare. The virtual Executive Leadership Lecture Series addresses pressing issues in healthcare and provides networking opportunities, discussion points among Physician MBA students and alumni, and education for the physician leadership community. It is open to the public and awards CMEs to physician participants.
Executive Leadership Lecture Series
Join Physician MBA executive coaches Jennifer Robin, PhD, and Chuck Stoner, PhD, for the Executive Leadership Lecture.
One of the most pressing challenges of healthcare leadership is disruptive behavior that threatens team morale and culture and, ultimately, impacts patient care. For physician leaders, these issues are especially perplexing when the target individual is a physician colleague—one who often is linically competent but interpersonally abrasive, dismissive, and threatening.
Physician leaders may struggle to determine when and how to intervene—fearing pushback and logical concerns about making matters worse. This webinar will help physician leaders with the “when” and “how.”
Drawing from their recent book, Working with Distressed Physicians: A Guide for Physician Leaders, Robin and Stoner explore factors that influence distressed behavior and identify in clear practical terms how leaders can position themselves to draw upon their authority while influencing physician behavior. By doing so, physician leaders may also create and reinforce a collaborative and psychologically safe environment that is necessary for today’s team approach to healthcare.
What you’ll learn:
- When and how to address distressed and disruptive behavior, showing empathy and inspiring action while holding physicians accountable
- What to expect from initial meetings with target physicians and ways to plan for resistance
- How to implement a step-by-step model of supportive interaction between physician leaders and target physicians
- What to do when your best efforts fall short and how to make the decision to part ways with physicians who continue to harm the workplace culture
- How to support the rest of the team as they help a physician leader rebuild trust and adopt new ways of interacting.
No registration required. Click the button below to join the webinar on October 16 at 7:30pm ET.
Past featured speakers
Drawing upon the program's focus at the intersection of business and medicine, the Executive Leadership Lecture Series features two thought leaders each year—one from the business world and one from medicine. Speakers explore a current topic or theme that adds value for physician leaders and challenges their approach to leadership. Meet our previous speakers.
- Anna Liotta | Author, speaker, generational expert in leadership development
- Karen Nichols, DO | Leadership Consultant and Speaker
- Dan Diamond, MD | Leadership coach, keynote speaker, and former disaster relief physician
- Susan Dentzer | President and CEO of America’s Physician Groups
- Rex Hoffman, MD, MBA'18 | Executive Director of Operations and Chief Medical Officer, Providence Holy Cross Medical Center
- Toby Cosgrove, MD | Healthcare expert and former president and CEO, Cleveland Clinic
- Connie Mariano, MD | Former White House physician to the President and founder of the Center for Executive Medicine
- Alex Azar | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and former president of the U.S. Division, Eli Lilly and Company
- David Pryor, MD | Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer, Ascension
- Bob Chapman | CEO, Barry-Wehmill
- Ora Pescovitz, MD | President, Oakland University
- Chris Kay | Senior Vice President and CIO, Humana
- Mae Jemison, MD | American engineer, physician, and NASA astronaut
- Daniel Coyle | New York Times bestselling author of The Culture Code
- Tom Cooper, MD | Healthcare entrepreneur
- Alexandra Christina | Countess of Frederiksborg in Denmark
- Ann Christensen | President, Clayton Christensen Institute
- Ron Laufer | Senior Managing Director, MedImmune Ventures
- Brian Primack, MD, Ph.D. | Dean, University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions
- William H. Thompson | Chairman, Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C.
A Gift from Our Physician Alumni
In the Kelley Physician MBA, physicians understand the value of learning from others, and they pay it forward. This lecture series was created through a generous gift from the Class of 2016, in which each member donated funds to endow it. In addition to providing current students access to high-profile healthcare leaders, the lecture series is an opportunity for alumni to return to Indianapolis and participate in thought-provoking discussions throughout their careers.