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Healthcare Executive Leadership Program
Advance your career and prepare for your journey to senior leadership.
If you’re a high-potential healthcare leader who want to elevate your impact, expand your strategic thinking, and position yourself for senior leadership roles – this program is for you.
Over 10 weeks, you will learn directly from leadership experts and executive coaches, engage in peer coaching, and join candid conversations with healthcare executives who share how they make decisions, manage complexity, and lead organizations through change.
- Emerging or mid-career healthcare leaders preparing for senior-level roles
- Leaders moving from individual contributor to people-management positions
- Professionals who want to deepen their strategic thinking, executive presence, and ability to influence across departments
- Live sessions with expert instructors: Learn from nationally recognized experts in strategic communication, negotiation, finance, and team dynamics and leadership psychology.
- Peer coaching groups: Small, consistent coaching circles where you work through real leadership challenges, give and receive candid support, and build relationships that continue well beyond the program. These peers often become trusted advisors and part of your long-term professional network.
- Executive panel discussions: Hear directly from healthcare executives about career progression, decision-making, and leading through uncertainty.
- Fully Virtual, Highly Interactive: Not a slide-deck series. You’ll participate in discussions, simulations, scenario work, and guided reflections each week.
Module 1
Executive Presence
In healthcare, every interaction counts — whether you’re briefing physicians, presenting to senior leadership, or managing your team under pressure. How you show up can shape trust, clarity, and outcomes.
In this module, we’ll unpack the term “executive presence” for healthcare leaders and how to project confidence, credibility, and calm in high-stakes moments. You’ll explore:
- The 7 Observable Behaviors of Executive Presence in action
- How to craft powerful introductions that establish trust and authority
- Ways to flex your communication style to engage and influence across audiences
Module 2
Insights for Empowered Negotiation
Unlock the power of negotiation and elevate your leadership journey with our workshop tailored for healthcare leaders. Through real-time simulations, interactive discussions, and research-based frameworks participants will learn to navigate negotiations more confidently and effectively. This dynamic program includes an in-depth exploration of key negotiation concepts, proven negotiation strategies, and a supportive environment for leaders to hone their abilities, share insights, and expand their networks—ultimately fostering a community of more empowered and impactful professionals.
Day 1: Negotiation Fundamentals
- Negotiation Exercise: Kukui Nuts
- Core Concepts – Part I: “Grow the Pie,” Interests, BATNA, Reservation Price
- Strategies: Mental Models, Active Listening, Reciprocal Self-Disclosure
Day 2: Building on the Basics
- Negotiation Exercise: Biopharm-Seltek
- Core Concepts – Part II: “Cut the Pie,” ZOPA, Aspiration Price, Negotiator’s Dilemma
- Strategies: Anchoring, Fluency, Control the Frame
Module 3
The CFO as Chief Storyteller
A powerful partnership between finance and operations is possible through creating a shared vision. Through shifting your lens of finance from numbers to the story behind them, you’ll learn to share and receive financial information in a way that promotes engagement and turns the initiative at hand into an opportunity to create together.
This program is catered to leaders across the healthcare landscape, and provides concrete tools to frame a new perspective and ideas to drive understanding of the financial impact of decisions, engagement and partnership.
- Learn how to present ideas in a way that is more likely to drive approval (and success)
- Understand steps to define your finance-related conundrum (or opportunity) in an engaging, collaborative manner
- Identify ways to be the opposite of “they” or “finance said” as a financial leader and create an environment of partnership on the operational side
- See new ways to translate technical information to demystify healthcare finances
Module 4
Impostor Syndrome, Organizational Culture & Building High Performing Teams
This training will support leaders in understanding how they can identify, support, and create opportunities for their direct reports to address their Impostor Syndrome within their work context and build higher performing teams. We will discuss leadership styles that can be triggering for Impostor Syndrome and how to shift these types of behaviors to be more productive and supportive. The session will also allow leaders the opportunity to consider the overall organizational culture as well as team culture and how they can work on aspects to create greater psychological safety and opportunities to really support growth, high performance behaviors and healthy work relationships.
- To increase awareness of leaders’ strengths, blind spots, and challenges,
as it relates to impostor syndrome and team functioning - To learn some of the research backed strategies to increase productivity
and performance - To understand what types of environments and cultural behaviors
reinforce Impostor Syndrome (i.e., overworking, burnout and self-sabotage) which can decrease long-term performance of teams - To examine the gender differences in the experience of impostor
syndrome and leadership and how to maximize the strengths and work
on the areas that require development - To better understand impostor syndrome triggers for yourself and
your direct reports and how to respond to them in useful developmental
ways to help increase feelings of belonging, commitment and connection
to one’s work - To learn the best leadership strategies to discuss and neutralize impostor syndrome and create psychologically safe environments where members
feel valued - To develop a Leadership Action Plan to proactively counter Impostor Syndrome with members of your team and team culture so that you
have a greater grasp on how to increase the effectiveness and commitment
of your team to their mission
Weekly sessions are online from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM on Wednesdays.
April 29 – July 1, 2026
$3,450 per person.
Group discounts are available for 3+ attendees.
Program fee includes course materials and a certificate of completion.
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Erica Boothby, PhD
Erica Boothby is an award-winning instructor of Negotiations at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. A social psychologist by training, Erica’s research examines decision-making and social influence. She explores the psychological processes underlying people’s (often misguided) beliefs about the impact they have on others in everyday social interactions, including conversations, shared experiences, and acts of kindness. Erica’s research has been published in leading academic journals, including Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and it has featured in media outlets such as The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and National Public Radio’s Hidden Brain. Prior to arriving at The Wharton School, Erica completed her Ph.D. in Psychology at Yale University and was a Fellow in the Behavioral Economics and Decision Research Center at Cornell University.
Jenna Lange
As founder and CEO of Lange International, Jenna has advised executives and their teams in high stakes communications for more than 20 years. She cut her teeth at pitch coaching in the mid-2000s in NYC’s financial district. Investment bankers quickly learned that Jenna was their secret weapon in closing deals as she guided teams to get the story and delivery just right – from the first meeting all the way to IPO. This talent for helping leaders in their most critical communication moments has helped Jenna grow a successful boutique consulting firm and work with some of the world’s most influential companies. The Lange team is known for the care and efficiency with which they help individuals transform their communication impact.
Having lived in Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, Jenna is passionate about language and culture and speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese. She brings that global focus to keynote presentations delivered throughout the LATAM, EMEA and APAC regions.
Kimberly McNally, MN, RN, BCC
Kimberly McNally, MN, RN, BCC, provides expert coaching to health care leaders, teams and boards to find new ways of thinking and interacting as they face dramatic shifts in complexity, volatility, and change in their workplaces and markets. She has coached executive and hi-potential leaders working in hospitals/health systems, long term care, health plans, FQHCs, and physician practices across the country. In addition, she has served leaders in higher education, public school districts, trade associations, and social enterprise organizations. Kimberly draws on 25+ years of executive coaching experience, 35 years of serving on non-profit boards, leadership experience in healthcare delivery, account management and organizational development and clinical roots as a nurse. As a trustee, she was actively involved in creating policies, structures, and systems to improve quality and safety, advance diversity and inclusion, and reduce health disparities. She is committed to supporting clients to find their “growing edges” and make choices about how they want to make a bigger contribution. By focusing on expanding their leadership capacity, Kimberly’s clients find they can inspire others to step up to help solve the challenges facing the healthcare industry and experience more satisfaction, effectiveness and fulfillment.
Lisa Orbé-Austin, PhD
Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin is a licensed psychologist and executive coach, with expertise in Imposter Syndrome, career advancement, and leadership development. She is a co-founder and partner of Dynamic Transitions Psychological Consulting, a career and executive coaching consultancy, where she works mostly with high potential managers and executives.
She earned her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University. Her views about career advancement, job transitions, leadership, and diversity & inclusion are regularly sought by the media and she has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, NBC News, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Refinery29, Business Insider, and Insight Into Diversity. She has been honored twice as a Top Voice on LinkedIn in the areas of Job Search & Careers and Mental Health. Dr. Orbé Austin has been an invited speaker at various national conferences. She gave a TEDx talk entitled “The Impostor Syndrome Paradox: Unleashing the Power of You.” She regularly consults with organizations in the private sector, non-profits, and educational institutions in supporting their employees and senior leadership teams to address gender bias, diversity, equity, & inclusion concerns, leadership development, effective communication, team cohesion, and managing conflict management.
Hilary Whittington
Hilary Whittington is a passionate, articulate healthcare leader who brings energy to the complex challenge of transforming care delivery. With financial and operational expertise, she uses strategic vision to drive growth and sustainability. As President of MultiCare’s Pulse Heart Institute, she leads strategy and operations for cardiovascular services provided across Pulse’s provider enterprise, ambulatory, and hospital-based settings. She previously served as Chief Financial Officer for MultiCare’s institutes (including Pulse Heart Institute), where she built frameworks and managed financial sustainability alongside aggressive growth objectives.
Hilary spent nine years as Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Financial Officer of one of Washington’s largest critical access hospitals, and started her career in public accounting working with rural hospitals throughout the Northwest. She’s passionate about turning financial data into stories that help decision-makers work together toward shared goals. This approach drives her work with the Institute for Healthcare Finance – and partnership with WHS through leading “Finance for Operational Leaders” and the Healthcare Executive Leadership Program, where she teaches “CFO as Chief Storyteller” modules.
Hilary lives on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula with her husband and two young sons, where she enjoys exploring the woods and spending time outdoors. Her family has a love for aviation and treasures their adventures seeing the Northwest’s stunning landscapes from above.
Jennifer Willey
Jennifer Willey launched Wet Cement in 2017 to help ‘lay the foundation’ for inclusive, empowered and equitable cultures that drive innovation, growth and loyalty. Her Advance Women at Work practice specializes in gender equity and inclusive leadership through speaking, training, coaching and consulting with Fortune 500 companies around the globe. She is the Gender Equality and Inclusivity Expert Advisor to Comexposium Japan and the global association DPAA.
Prior to launching Wet Cement, Jenn had a unique career journey traversing being a television news anchor and reporter for ABC and CBS, and leading sales, strategy, and marketing teams for two decades at WebMD, Everyday Health, Sharecare, Yahoo and AOL. She also actively contributes to women’s health as a fitness instructor for 30+ years.
Jennifer received her undergraduate degree and certification in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University. Jennifer is honored as one of the few CEOs heading a Woman-Owned and Disability-Owned certified business, highlighting her dedication to diversity and empowerment. She is a member of the National Speaker’s Association and SHRM.