Transforming Healthcare Coaching

How can healthcare leaders improve operational efficiency, team communication, and organizational performance? In this episode of the Transforming Healthcare Coaching Podcast, Angela Domhoff shares insights on healthcare operations, fractional COO leadership, AI in healthcare, revenue cycle management, and leading teams through organizational change.  Learn why proactive communication, trust but v...

Why is healthcare worker burnout a systemic problem rather than an individual failure? Dr. Trisha Vinatieri, PsyD, explains how organizational culture, inefficient workflows, staffing demands, and leadership behaviors contribute to clinician burnout. Learn evidence-based strategies for improving healthcare workforce well-being, preventing staff burnout, redesigning workflows, and building a health...

How can physicians balance medical residency with entrepreneurship? Dr. Daniella Dennis shares how she built a business, launched The Resident Founder Podcast, and developed PayScopeMD, an AI-powered tool for physician employment contracts and salary benchmarking. Discover practical tips on physician entrepreneurship, AI in healthcare, physician salary negotiation, and taking action on your busine...

How can healthcare professionals build effective mentor-mentee relationships and advance their careers? Dr. Ruth Gotian shares practical strategies for healthcare mentorship, leadership development, communication, networking, and career growth.  Learn how to build a mentoring team, avoid mentorship malpractice, communicate effectively with mentors, and understand the difference between mentoring,...

Communication is one of the most common procedures in critical care—but unlike central lines or codes, most clinicians receive surprisingly little deliberate practice. Dr. Tessie October joins Dr. Lillian Emlet to explore what real ICU family meetings teach us about empathy, conflict, decision-making, and getting better at difficult conversations. IN THIS EPISODE: ► Why communication deserves deli...

What does it mean to be an experienced beginner in healthcare leadership, career transitions, and a rapidly changing world of AI? In this episode, Lillian Liang Emlet shares practical lessons on developing a beginner’s mindset, embracing continuous learning, asking for help, navigating leadership challenges, and taking the next right step toward professional growth.    Chapters and Time-Stamps 00:...

Emergency physician and ShiftChange founder Dr. Patrick O’Malley shares how physicians can build entrepreneurial ventures alongside their clinical careers without turning a side hustle into another source of burnout. He explores physician entrepreneurship, career transitions, networking, coaching, and why finding the right community can make building beyond medicine more sustainable.    Chapters a...

Dr. Jess Bunin explores how self-awareness and self-trust help healthcare leaders communicate authentically, build psychological safety, and navigate hierarchy. She also shares her CLEAR framework for approaching difficult conversations with greater trust and respect.   Chapters & Time-Stamps:  00:28 Meet Jess Bunin 01:56 From West Point to ICU 04:33 Education Opens Doors 05:36 The Cost of Sil...

How can healthcare leaders communicate with more impact, influence, and executive presence? Leadership communications coach Salvatore Manzi explains how physicians and healthcare executives can use his “You Then Me” framework, storytelling, metaphors, audience-centered communication, and confident speaking strategies to make complex healthcare ideas clear, compelling, and actionable.  Chapters &am...

Oncologist Dr. Shikha Jain explains how systemic barriers—not lack of ambition—drive the gender gap in medical leadership, and how that inspired her to build the Women in Medicine Summit.   Chapters and Time-stamps 01:35 Meet Dr Shikha Jain 02:42 Why Women Leave Medicine 04:18 System Built for Men 06:34 Pay Gap Starts Early 08:49 Motherhood and Support 10:31 Told to Wait Stories 13:47 Building Wom...

After nearly three decades living with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, photographer Alison Conklin received a heart transplant in October 2022 — and turned the isolation of that journey into Bonus Days Magazine, a print publication giving voice to transplant recipients, donor families, and caregivers.  She talks with host Lillian Liang Emlet about the quiet loneliness of waiting for an organ and what...

Two physicians who left clinical medicine — one from pediatrics, one from sports medicine — talk with host Lillian Liang Emlet about building nonclinical careers in medical writing and beyond. Dr. Morgan Leafe and Dr. Mandy Armitage, co-founders of the Nonclinical Physicians Network, unpack the identity shift of stepping away from clinical practice and how to separate real financial concerns from...

Confidence isn't certainty — it's the belief that you can handle whatever comes next. In this episode, Lillian Liang-Emlet and clinician-turned-executive-coach Vicki Landers explore how imposter syndrome takes hold in healthcare, why failure builds skill rather than undermining it, and how surrounding yourself with the right influences creates lasting self-trust for clinicians navigating leadershi...

Clinical pharmacist Dr. Cory Jenks explains how improv comedy skills helped him become a more adaptable, empathetic provider and prevent burnout in high-stress healthcare settings. He breaks down why building muscle — not just cardio — is a powerful, underused lever for reversing type 2 diabetes and lowering blood sugar.  Jenks also shares his "micro recovery" approach, including a 15-minutes-twic...

Most healthcare leaders either weaponize coaching as punishment or confuse it with mentoring, therapy, and advising — and that confusion is driving away top talent.    In this solo episode, Lillian breaks down the five key roles every leader needs (sponsor, advisor, mentor, therapist, and coach), clarifies what professional coaching actually is, and backs it with RCT data showing coaching cuts bur...

When crisis hits, self-care feels impossible — but that's exactly when pre-built wellness habits save you. Co-host Klaus Grim, PA-C, opens up about navigating his mother-in-law's terminal cancer diagnosis and how his coaching skills — validation, open-ended questions, and strategic kindness — became his most powerful tools for patient advocacy and family support.    Chapters and Time-stamps:  02:0...

Healthcare professionals carry invisible wounds — as patients, caregivers, and people navigating loss — yet rarely have space to integrate those experiences into how they lead. In this episode, Dr. Rebecca Thompson, physician and author of Held Together, shares how embracing vulnerability, imperfection, and shared storytelling transforms clinical leadership and patient care from the inside out.  C...

Why do well-meaning healthcare leaders unintentionally create exclusionary workplaces? Employment lawyer Natalie Holder, Esq., SPHR unpacks the 10 hidden indicators of a broken workplace culture — from informal mentoring gaps to bullying and dual identity — and reveals how subtle bias quietly erodes belonging, engagement, and patient care.  Chapters and Time-stamps:  01:32 Meet Natalie Holder 03:0...

Personality differences on healthcare teams aren't problems to manage — they're untapped performance drivers. In this episode, Lillian and Gillian explore how tools like the PrinciplesYou and PrinciplesUs assessments help teams build a shared language around traits, blind spots, and cognitive diversity to unlock healthier conflict, deeper trust, and better outcomes. Chapters & Time-Stamps 01:5...

What if the #1 cause of clinician burnout and patient non-adherence is the same problem? In this episode, Dr. Lillian Liang Emlet and master certified coach Hélène Thériault reveal how shifting from a "fix-it" expert mindset to a coach approach — doing with patients instead of for them — can transform clinical outcomes, reduce burnout, and change healthcare culture one small conversation at a time...

Dr. Rana Awdish, critical care physician and author, joins Dr. Lillian Liang Emlet to discuss why surviving illness and truly healing are not the same — and how reconnecting with your body can save your life.   Chapters and Time-stamps 00:58 Meet Dr Rana Awdish 02:38 When Medicine Breaks Down 05:18 Shame and Bad Bodies 06:12 Changing the Culture 08:36 New Generation Boundaries 11:01 Reinhabiting t...

 In this episode, co-hosts Klaus Grim and Gillian Faith explore why healthcare teams struggle to see themselves as part of a larger system — and how shifting from blame to curiosity, fostering psychological safety, and embracing systemic team coaching can unlock stronger communication, collaboration, and wellbeing across every level of care.    Discover how a future-focused, outside-in coaching ap...

In this episode, Lillian sits down with Dusty Holcomb, founder & CEO of the Arcqus Group, to explore why leadership is a learned behavior — and why it starts with leading yourself. They cover the critical difference between leadership and management, how healthcare professionals can find agency even early in their careers, and Dusty's five questions to connect purpose to performance: Why are w...

What happens when a pediatrician gets tired of doctors feeling alone in medicine? He builds a community. In this episode, host Lillian Liang Emlet sits down with Dr. Zhen Chan — pediatrician, MD MBA, and founder of Grapevyne — to explore physician burnout, professional isolation, and how peer-driven communities can restore physician autonomy and career fulfillment.  ​ Chapters & Time-stamps 0:...

What if the traits you've been hiding your whole career are actually your greatest strengths? Dr. Krystal Sodaitis — board-certified pediatrician turned health plan executive, life coach, and TEDx speaker — unpacks neurodiversity in medicine, physician career pivots, and why the "spiky profile" hiding in plain sight might be your superpower. Chapter and Time-stamps 00:00 Identity Beyond Medicine 0...