Higher Ground - Healthcare Leadership

Join us today as we explore seven strategies to help you start off on the right foot with your team during your first 90 days. It’s all about pacing your leadership: learn before you change, listen before you decide, and build relationships before you need them. Send us Fan Mail

 Join in today as we walk through seven powerful strategies that help you let go of the need to be the smartest person in the room—and instead tap into the full strength of your team and your own leadership. They’re freeing, energizing, and take the weight off your shoulders as a leader. Send us Fan Mail

Join us today as we dig into a critical question in modern leadership: Are we mistaking meetings for progress? We’ll explore practical, actionable ways to make meetings truly meaningful—so leaders can free up time to round , strategize , coach , improve patient and employee experiences , increase efficiency , expand access to care , and solve real problems rather than just talk about them. Send us...

Join in with Higher Ground's 777 episode 46: The Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Became a Leader. Seven strategies to get off to the right start in your new leadership role. You've got this!  Send us Fan Mail

Yesterday you were a co-worker; today you are a leader. Join in today as we discuss 7 strategies for successfully transitioning from peer to leader.  Send us Fan Mail

Join us today as we explore seven strategies to define the leader you want to become—before your boss, your team, or your organization does it for you. This episode dives into how you can intentionally and authentically shape your leadership style, clarify your must‑haves, and establish your nonnegotiables. You’ll learn how to lead in a way that feels true to who you are, aligns with what you valu...

Listen in as we discuss how to avoid the new leadership trap by highlighting the 7 common mistakes new leaders fall into and how to avoid them. If you are new to leadership or an experienced leader starting a new position, you won't want to miss this.  Send us Fan Mail

Join today's 777 to learn 7 strategies for earning trust, understanding your organization, and creating lasting success before making significant change. Whether this is your first leadership role or you've stepped into a senior executive position, this episode will help you align your first 90 days for building relationships and teams.  Send us Fan Mail

Join in today to learn key strategies for authentically building trust in the first 90 days.  Send us Fan Mail

On today's episode of 777 (7 strategies in 7 minutes or less for success), we'll discuss 7 ways great healthcare leaders can support their frontline teams.  Send us Fan Mail

Join in today for a short and powerful episode on 7 leadership strategies to strengthen healthcare workforce recruitment, retention, and sustainability.  Send us Fan Mail

Listen in today on Higher Ground's 777: 7 tips on the utilization and implementation of AI tools in radiology departments (as an example) for adding value under the pillars of excellence: People, Quality, Safety, Finance, & Growth. Send us Fan Mail

Listen in today, and welcome back to the show, special guest, Josh Block, President of Block Imaging, author of People Matter@Work, and founder of Cube Mobile Imaging. No matter how big they've grown, the company hasn't drifted from its roots--people first, purpose always. That simple conviction continues to guide every decision and relationship, reminding leaders that when people flouri...

Welcome to Higher Ground's 777: 7 tips, in 7 minutes or less, with these seven letters that spell success. On today's episode, we'll be discussing SBEAR - a communication tool that takes SBAR (situation-background-assessment-recommendation) and adds equity to the mix. As a new or emerging leader, clear communication is essential to success, and by adding the E to SBAR, we ensure we...

Listen in today with special guest Josh Block. As President of Block Imaging, a global medical imaging company, and founder of Cube Mobile Imaging, Josh leads with a simple but radical conviction: when people matter at work, everything changes--businesses grow, families thrive, and lives are transformed. His message is shaped not by theory, but by three decades of rolling up his sleeves across eve...

Join in today with a discussion on lean strategies, processes, and implementations for success with Valdez Bravo. A lifelong public servant with over 25 years in the healthcare industry, Valdez serves as Deputy Director of Operations at the Multnomah County Health Department. His insights, vision, and recommendations will add value for your patients, your teams, and your communities.  Send us Fan...

Listen in today on skills, strategies, insights, and action steps on becoming a great mentor. Mentorship should be intentional, purposeful, consistent, and psychologically safe to foster growth and understanding in those we are guiding. This comes with great responsibility as we help shape, mold, and sustain the next generation of leaders.  Send us Fan Mail

Join today with special guest Miranda Kelton to learn strategies, skills, and insights for building your personal brand for individuals and businesses.  Miranda Kelton is a Headshot & Branding Photographer based in Bend, Oregon. Through her work, Miranda has helped professionals across the West Coast showcase their expertise, connect with their audiences, and stand out in their industries. As...

Join us today as we discuss building resilient, strong, and robust teams through times of intense change and disruption.  Send us Fan Mail

Join in today to learn strategies, initiatives, and tools for building high reliable departments and organizations, specifically designed for new and emerging leaders.  Send us Fan Mail

Join us today with special guest Eddy Maillot as he shares practical skills, strategies, and insights into what it truly means to be a servant leader. Eddy has built a distinguished career in healthcare leadership across the American West, the Appalachian region of North Carolina, and the Midwest. He holds a Master of Physical Therapy from Loma Linda University and an MBA in Healthcare Management...

Join us today for a discussion on effective strategies for recruitment, retention, and re-recruiting employees, grounded in culture, mission, vision, values, rounding, coaching, and team building.  Send us Fan Mail

Join in today to learn how to have effective, crucial accountability conversations by utilizing key tools and strategies to create safety and respect, lead with facts, invite perspective, connect behavior to impact and purpose, co-create agreed-upon solutions, and end with clear agreements and follow-up.  Send us Fan Mail

Join in today to learn about effective strategies for having crucial conversations. As leaders, what we allow - we promote. Don't fall into this trap and unintentionally create a negative culture. Lean into hard conversations with specific tools, strategies, and support to achieve the best outcomes for the relationships, the department, the organization, and the community.  Send us Fan Mail

Join us today on Higher Ground for a discussion on standard work and how it helps improve safety, quality, and efficiency. Standard work helps us, as leaders, focus our work and purpose to achieve the best outcomes by providing tangible, actionable items in our toolbox to help frame our days, weeks, months, quarters, and years into energy that has momentum and sustainability.  Send us Fan Mail