Breaking Script

Marisa Farabaugh, Chief Supply Chain Officer at AdventHealth, joins Tina to talk about the leadership required to make healthcare supply chain more resilient. From building relationships before a crisis to helping teams rise after setbacks, Marisa shares practical lessons on trust, purpose, and bold asks. Her reminder for leaders: don’t negotiate against yourself when the work matters. Resources F...

What does it take to stay focused when the plan inevitably changes? In this episode of Breaking Script, Doug Shaver, CEO of ASP Global, reflects on the leadership lessons that endure from the military to the C-suite. Drawing from his time at West Point, service in the Army and decades in healthcare, he shares how resilience, alignment and disciplined focus shape the way he leads.  Resources Follow...

What if the biggest risk in your organization is what people aren’t saying? In this episode, Harvard Business School Professor and best-selling author Amy Edmondson unpacks why psychological safety fuels learning and performance. She reframes accountability as ownership, explores the courage required to speak up, and highlights why leaders must create environments where candor can thrive, especial...

What if human kindness wasn’t a value, but a deliberate leadership practice? In this episode, CommonSpirit CEO Wright Lassiter III shares how service, purpose, and compassion scale with intention across one of the nation’s largest health systems. He explains how disruption clarifies what matters most and why aligning personal and organizational purpose unleashes resilience, performance, and impact...

Leading with purpose to drive human-centered transformation in healthcare. In this episode, Regine Villain, a transformational leader in healthcare, reflects on her journey from engineering to supply chain leadership. She shares how reframing adversity fuels growth, why “no” is the start of progress, and how leading beyond data alone keeps patients and people at the center of every decision.  Reso...

What does it take to lead with clarity and conviction in one of the most complex industries? In this episode, Steve Downey, Chief Supply Chain and Support Service Officer at Cleveland Clinic, shares a deeply human perspective on transforming healthcare supply chains, grounded in purpose, powered by collaboration and accelerated by AI. From cross-industry lessons to navigating failure to leading wi...

Healthcare transformation requires more than new technology—it demands new ways of thinking. In this episode, Tina Vatanka Murphy speaks with healthcare finance leader and former Marine Jon Alford about leadership, innovation, and challenging legacy systems. From lessons learned in military service to reimagining automation, culture, and supply chains, Jon shares why healthcare leaders must rethin...

In this episode, Bruce Johnson, Former CEO and former Chairman of the board, of GHX, talks about leadership, transformation, and building a lasting legacy. He shares how humor and vulnerability build trust and adaptability, why clarity of purpose and vision matter at pivotal moments, and how values and a clear North Star guide leaders through hard, emotionally charged decisions.

Leadership isn’t tested in comfort; it’s revealed under pressure. In this episode, Tina sits down with Army veteran and executive coach Nate Allen to explore leadership when the cost of failure is real. Drawing on high-stakes military experience and profound personal loss, Nate shares his “three fights” framework – self, team and mission – and why trust, vulnerability and curiosity determine wheth...

The leaders who successfully navigate disruptive innovation are the ones who anchor every decision in service to their customers and mission. In this episode, Geoffrey Moore, author of best-selling books and advisor, explains why established enterprises struggle to catch the second wave of innovation, especially when shifting resources from profitable legacy systems to unproven new technologies. H...

Courage fuels growth in uncertainty. In this episode, Harvard Business School Professor, Dr. Ranjay Gulati, shares why courage is not the absence of fear, but rather taking bold action in the face of it. He explains how purpose and courage reinforce each other, how leaders can build cultures where safe experimentation and smart failures drive learning, and how courage can be trained like a muscle...

In a world that never stops shouting for your attention, radical clarity is a leadership advantage. In this episode, Tina sits down with Deidre Paknad, CEO and co-founder of WorkBoard, to explore how great leaders and great teams cut through noise and stay aligned on what matters most. Deidre defines alignment as the convergence of time and effort, and challenges the myth that it should ever be “s...

Driving lasting performance through people-first leadership and the discipline to keep pushing even when you’re winning. What separates leaders who thrive in complexity from leaders who get trapped in it? Clarity and the courage to keep choosing it. In this episode, Tina sits down with Mike Mahoney, Chairman and CEO of Boston Scientific, for a candid conversation on leading at scale without losing...

In this opening episode of Breaking Script, host Tina Vatanka Murphy reflects on a moment that reinforced her beliefs about what real leadership requires. It came from a professor who reminded a room of CEOs that the only way to lead through uncertainty and disruption is with bold, courageous leadership. That call to action sparked the idea for this podcast: a space for real, unvarnished conversat...