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
From Story to Action: How Physicians Can Use Storytelling to Influence and Lead
Featuring Sally Perkins, PhD
Author of From Story to Action
Monday, April 6
8 p.m. ET
Virtual | CME Available
Join us online April 6 for the Executive Leadership Lecture featuring Sally Perkins, PhD, author of From Story to Action. For more than 15 years, Sally has been training organizational leaders, including physicians, how to tell stories that drive action.
In this engaging session, Sally will help you see why you need the art of storytelling to influence your patients, your healthcare communities, and your larger communities. Specifically, you'll walk away with four tools:
- An understanding from neuroscience on why stories are essential for influence
- A simple yet unique storytelling structure that ensures you're telling stories that engage
- A storytelling framework for telling stories with high emotional impact
- A storytelling framework that weaves data into strategic stories that touch both the head and the heart
This session will be as practical as it will be intellectually engaging. You'll instantly find yourself applying the frameworks to many dimensions of your work as physicians. CME credit will be offered.
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. Discover our previous speakers.
- Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS | CEO, AcademyHealth
- Jennifer Robin, PhD and Chuck Stoner, PhD | Physician MBA executive coaches
- 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.