Leading in Health SystemsActivating Change

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

• Effectively lead and motivate the full range of stakeholders in your health care system
• Increase your leadership impact by extending influence beyond your authority
• Get ahead of the decision and action curve to guide and direct a wide range of followers
• Improve personal and organizational ability to negotiate, resolve conflict, and solve complex problems
• Hone your vision and capacity to link and leverage people and resources to achieve shared goals
• Build robust system connectivity by applying the emerging insights in “swarm leadership”
• Instill and inspire leadership as a core competency throughout your system

Program Highlights

• Highly interactive learning through a provocative leadership laboratory designed to disrupt and challenge
• Cutting-edge curriculum that takes on the opportunities and predicaments of a changing health care system
• Pragmatic and tested set of meta-leadership tools and strategies to further develop your skill set and career
• Proactively address systemic productivity issues and build unity of effort using innovative problem-solving methods
• Reap value with topics, tools, and techniques immediately useful at your organization

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.

For directions, please click here.

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.

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
• Chief medical officers
• Chief nursing officers
• Clinical department chairs
• Clinical division chiefs
• Clinical service directors
• Deans of academic medical centers
• Executive directors
• Group practice administrators
• Health insurance executives
• Health policy advisors
• Medical directors
• Nurses and nurse leaders
• Physicians and physician leaders
• Vice presidents