Health Care Leadership for Emerging Executives

Program Overview

Elevate Your Health Care Career with High-Impact Leadership Development

As a rising leader in health care, you face the dual challenges of responding to immediate crises and shaping the future of health systems. Health Care Leadership for Emerging Executives will equip current and future leaders with the critical tools and skills to influence beyond authority, solve complex problems, and build a connected and visionary leadership approach.

Health care today grapples with enormous pressures: improving outcomes, expanding access, managing attrition, and controlling costs amid rapid technological advancements. Effective leadership now requires more than expertise—it demands broad thinking, decisive action, and the ability to negotiate and resolve conflicts to build stakeholder buy-in beyond your organization.

Expert faculty will draw on decades of experience and research in health care leadership, crisis management, and negotiation to help you refine these critical skills. Through this frame, you will master pragmatic frameworks, tools, and techniques developed by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty for uniting partners with opposing points-of-view, uncovering shared interests, and forging unity of effort.

Reach Your Leadership Potential at Harvard

If you, like many others, are selected for an executive position based on your clinical expertise or individual contributions, you may find leadership to be the missing specialty in your preparation. With the health care landscape continually evolving through consolidation, mergers, and integration, focused leadership training is crucial. Health Care Leadership for Emerging Executives will enable you to:

• Recognize emerging opportunities and risk
• Engage diverse stakeholders
• Allocate scarce resources strategically
• Make more effective decisions
• Lead transformative change within your organization

Objectives & Highlights

Learning Objectives

• Lead your team by adapting to new post-pandemic realities
• Develop strategies to manage and retain empowered employees
• Adjust your leadership style to address trauma-induced workplace changes
• Extend your influence beyond your authority to engage diverse stakeholders
• Navigate potential issues in today’s health care environments
• Use emotional intelligence to prioritize and lead effectively at any level
• Understand and balance risk profiles within your team
• Enhance your vision to improve organizational connectivity and competitiveness

Program Highlights

• Field tested leadership strategies and tactics to further develop your skill set and career trajectory
• Reap value from topics, tools, and techniques immediately useful at your organization
• Learn from expert Harvard faculty who work in the field
• Compare notes and discuss the issues you share with a network of emerging health care leaders
• Join the Program Directors on a walking tour of Harvard Yard

Credits and Logistics

Please note: a laptop or other portable personal computing device is strongly recommended for course enrollees.

Accommodations

Program Check-in

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
FXB Building
651 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
617.432.2100

The program takes place at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, located in the heart of the Harvard Longwood Campus in Boston. Public transportation is also readily available to the city’s many shopping districts, museums, and restaurants.

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Continuing Education Credit

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The American Medical Association (AMA) has an agreement of mutual recognition of continuing medical education (CME) credit with the European Union of Medical Specialties (UEMS). Additional information regarding this agreement may be found on the American Medical Association (AMA) website.

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will grant 1.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for this program, equivalent to 15 contact hours of education. Participants can apply these contact hours toward other professional education accrediting organizations.

All credits subject to final agenda.

All participants will receive a Certificate of Participation upon completion of the program.

Faculty

Current faculty, subject to change.

Leonard J. Marcus, PhD

Program Director

May 14 – 16, 2025

Co-Director
National Preparedness Leadership Initiative
Harvard University

Director
Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Lecturer on Public Health Practice
Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Eric J. McNulty, MA

Program Director

May 14 – 16, 2025

Associate Director
Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Agenda

Who Should Attend

This program is designed to meet the interpersonal, system, and problem solving challenges now required for career advancement. Participants are leaders and those ready to assume leadership positions from across the health care system, including:

• Chief Administrative Officers
• Chief Executive Officers
• Clinical Department Chairs
• Clinical Service Directors
• Executive Directors
• Group Practice Administrators
• Health Policy Advisors
• Health Insurance Executives
• Medical Directors
• Nurses and Nurse Leaders
• Physicians and Physician Leaders

Meta-Leadership

In this program, you will master advanced leadership frameworks like Meta-leadership and “The Walk in the Woods,” distinctive practice methods for complex problem solving not found in other executive programs.

Meta-Leadership: Connecting and Leveraging Talents for Success

Developed by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty, Meta-leadership is a conceptually rigorous and field-tested framework that helps you foster innovation, anticipate change, and tackle complex, risk-laden challenges. By intentionally connecting and leveraging diverse talents and assets, you significantly increase the likelihood of achieving and sustaining positive outcomes in your health care organization.

Meta-leadership prepares you to lead effectively across all levels and spheres—within your team, to your superiors, among your peers, and with external stakeholders. This multidimensional leadership style is crucial in today’s dynamic health care environment, ensuring you can navigate and influence different levels and areas effectively.

Proven Methods for Complex Problem-Solving in Health Care

Rooted in research spanning leadership, health care, conflict management, neuroscience, negotiation, and emergency management, meta-leadership provides an actionable toolkit ready for immediate application. This robust foundation makes you a more effective leader from day one.

In addition to learning the Meta-leadership framework, the program introduces you to “The Walk in the Woods”—a model for complex problem-solving and interest-based negotiation, and the swarm intelligence strategy for fostering collaboration during crises. These distinctive methods further enhance your problem-solving and leadership capabilities.

Health Care Leadership for Emerging Executives is taught by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty, Dr. Leonard Marcus and Eric McNulty, who pioneered these methods. Their decades of experience ensure you gain practical, real-world insights. The faculty are also co-authors of Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration, Second Edition, offering valuable perspectives to their instruction.

By the end of Health Care Leadership for Emerging Executives, you will:

• Lead your team by adapting to new post-pandemic realities
• Develop strategies to manage and retain empowered employees
• Adjust your leadership style to address trauma-induced workplace changes
• Extend your influence beyond your authority to engage diverse stakeholders
• Navigate potential issues in today’s health care environments
• Use emotional intelligence to prioritize and lead effectively at any level
• Understand and balance risk profiles within your team
• Enhance your vision to improve organizational connectivity and competitiveness