The Audacity to Fail: Misstepping Into Success!

On this episode, Dr. Shari Dade takes a moment to connect with Dr. Erica Scavella, a member of Senior Executive Service (SES), who serves as the Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Clinical Services and the Chief Medical Officer at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Scavella and her team define VA’s clinical strategy and policy in order to assure the provision of an enterprise-wide,...

Are you living a life based on the memories of your missteps or are you living a life with a vision of your future in mind? On this episode, Dr. Shari Dade spends time with Mr. James Douglas the Associate Director for the VA West Texas Health Care System. In his role, Mr. Douglas is responsible for the administrative operations of the Health Care System to include Fiscal and Engineering oversight....

On this episode, Dr. Shari Dade takes a moment to connect with Dr. Shabnam “Shabi” Showell, an Associate Chief of Staff (ACOS) of primary care West at the North Florida South Georgia Health Care System, and a leadership coach. Dr. Showell is an internist who completed medical school and residency at the University of Colorado.  She is passionate about primary care, women's health, musculoskeletal...

On this episode, Dr. Shari Dade sits down with Dr. Kristina Seymour, a Clinical psychologist at the Columbia VA Health Care System. Dr. Seymour also serves on the Trauma Recovery Team (TRP) as a Rotation Supervisor. She is also a published author and creator of the Optimal Response Initiative (ORI) with Military, Civilian, and Primary Care Version Workbooks. Dr. Seymour is also the Founder of Shar...

In accordance with executive order titled Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions this episode has been removed.

In Season Two’s opening episode, Dr. Shari Dade is joined by Amjed Baghdadi, the Assistant Director for Operations at Austin for the Central Texas Veteran’s Healthcare System. Amjed provides administrative oversite for the Austin Outpatient Clinic as well as Prosthetics, Voluntary, Chaplain, and MyVA Experience Services. For this conversation, Amjed shares a story of failure and the audacity it to...

For Season One’s special close out episode, Dr. Shari Dade has the pleasure of being joined by Dr. Richard Stone, an Independent Contractor and Healthcare Strategist. Dr. Stone is the former acting Under Secretary for Health at the Veterans Health Administration. In this conversation, Dr. Stone discusses the missteps leaders can make throughout their leaderships careers and when they are embarking...

On this month’s episode, Dr. Shari Dade is joined by Onika Coke-Munoz, the Director of Learning and Development (L&D) in the Office of Human Capital Services (HCS) at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA). In this role she leads organizational change and infrastructure improvements within a multi-faceted training enterprise providing instruction,...

On this month’s episode, Dr. Shari Dade dialogues with Dr. Ryan Vega, the Chief Officer in the Healthcare Innovation and Learning office. Ryan provides direct guidance to the VHA Innovation Ecosystem, which includes the Innovators Network and Diffusion of Excellence, the VHA Simulation Learning Evaluation and Research Network, and the new Center for Care and Payment Innovation. In this dialogue, D...

On this month’s episode, Dr. Shari Dade connects with Dr. Al Montoya, the Medical Center Director of the VA Connecticut Healthcare System a 1A tertiary care with approximately 3,000 staff and care for around 58,000 veterans in the state of Connecticut! In this dialogue, Dr. Montoya discusses the missteps leaders can make when attempting to fairly and meaningfully recognize individual and team perf...

On this month’s episode, Dr. Shari Dade chats about workload with Bobbi Jo Nye, the Training and Exercise Branch Chief of the VHA Office of Emergency Management. Bobbi Jo manages multiple program and statutory initiatives ensuring that effective and efficient critical emergency management training and exercise support is provided to key stakeholders internal and external to the Veterans Health Adm...

On this month’s episode, Dr. Shari Dade sits down for a wellness conversation with Dr. Kavitha Reddy. Dr. Reddy is the Associate Director of Employee Whole Health within VHA Office of Patient-Centered Care and Cultural Transformation. She carries a previous leadership role as Whole Health Clinical Director at St. Louis VA, one of the 18 flagship sites for whole health system deployment. In this co...

On this month’s episode, Dr. Shari Dade interviews Marcus Butler. Marcus Butler is the Director of Logistics for the Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization. He is responsible for program oversight and executive leadership in the areas of Transportation Management, Facilities Management, Equipment Management, Analytical Reporting, and Logistics Operations and the accomplishment of the ove...

In accordance with executive order titled Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions this episode has been removed.

On this month’s episode, Dr. Shari Dade interviews Tiffany Chavis, MSW, LCSW. Tiffany Chavis, MSW, LCSW is a Senior Social Worker and the Suicide Prevention Coordinator at the Durham VAHCS. She works diligently to engage Veterans and their families, VA staff and providers, and community stakeholders in the public health approach to suicide prevention by increasing awareness about whole health and...

Dr. Chad Kessler is the National Director of Emergency Medicine for the Veteran’s Health Administration. During the day he works as an Emergency Medicine Physician and is the host of C-20, but on a Saturday night you could find him partaking in pizza, homemade ice cream, and watching Marvel movies with his wife and two older kids while the two littles one watch ‘little’ movies upstairs. In this co...