Leadership Strategies for Evolving Health Care Executives

Program Overview

Health Care Executive Leadership Program Overview

Focusing on management systems specific to health care, this program provides skill building in the critical areas of leadership and management development.

The curriculum is designed to develop conflict resolution, operational analysis, employee management, and quality management techniques necessary to achieve individual and organizational objectives.

Today’s knowledge base is different from that of even six months ago, and the solutions to tomorrow’s problems are within reach.

As a leader in the continuously evolving field of health care, you have the formidable and immediate challenge of creating both short- and long-term strategies. This program will enable you to respond proactively to the rapidly changing health care environment.

Program Benefits — Why You Should Participate

Gain insight into and develop the skills required to lead effectively in the dynamic and fast-changing field of health care. You will learn from distinguished Harvard faculty and network with professionals from prominent organizations.

Program Benefits

• Understand and develop your personal leadership style
• Improve your strategy, finance, and policy skills
• Build and sustain high functioning teams
• Engage in negotiation and meta-leadership

Objectives & Highlights

• Leadership sessions on motivation, negotiation, ethics, financial management, and more
• Active discussion groups that facilitate the sharing of experiences, address specific challenges, and create workplace solutions
• Distinguished Harvard faculty members, complemented by health care industry experts
• Professional networking with colleagues from highly regarded organizations

Learning Objectives

• Utilize the necessary tools to gain a firm grasp of your organization’s financial structure to effectively bring your vision to reality
• Use interest-based negotiation, multidimensional problem solving, meta-leadership, and other effective techniques to build collaboration and manage conflicts across complex health care systems
• Understand and leverage your skills to transform and lead groups into productive, high-performing teams
• Develop the crucial qualities, actions, and approaches necessary to be a successful leader
• Understand design thinking and how it can be used as a process for stimulating innovation in your organization
• Be able to explain and apply the dynamics of politics, culture, political culture and policy, alongside agenda setting, conflict and the role of narrative in policy making
• Understand organizational strategy and how to increase strategic thinking
• Understand change management concepts and apply them to real world experience
• Use best practices in giving and delivering feedback, work conflict, and difficult conversations to enhance high performing teams
• Identify leadership styles, strategies and approaches to improve personal navigation of challenges and opportunities
• Explore how groups become teams, structure themselves, and problem solve
• Introduce key concepts in developing an organizational strategy
• Examine ways to increase strategic thinking
• Understand what you are inherently good at as managers or employees
• Explore how to balance strengths on your health care teams
• Determine next steps to take in order to help leverage your talents
• Identify mechanisms that enable learning-by-doing to improve team performance
• Diagnose patterns of helpful and unhelpful behavior in teams
• Explore the issues leaders in health care face
• Leadership sessions on motivation, negotiation, ethics, financial management, and more
• Active discussion groups that facilitate the sharing of experiences, address specific challenges, and create workplace solutions
• Distinguished Harvard faculty members, complemented by health care industry experts
• Professional networking with colleagues from highly regarded organizations

Practical Learning Format

The primary teaching method for this program consists of interactive learning with small group discussions, case studies, and in-class exercises. Morning discussion groups are scheduled to review readings, respond to content questions, and share reactions. This process provides an opportunity to work closely with your colleagues to solve real-world issues.

Credits and Logistics

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 the 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 31.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will grant 3.1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for this program, equivalent to 31 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.

Louise Weed, MS

Program Director

May 5 – 9, 2025

Instructor
Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Agenda

Who Should Participate

Participants in this dynamic program are health care executives and emerging leaders in either clinical or nonclinical roles who wish to adapt their knowledge and skills to this constantly changing field, including:

• CEO, CIO, COO, CMO
• Department Chairs/Division Chiefs
• Group Practice Executives
• Health Care Consultants
• Health Systems Executives
• Hospital Executives
• Medical Directors
• Nurse Executives
• Physician Executives

Register today to ensure your organization’s competitive edge, and perhaps even its survival.