Growth Edge Leadership Podcast

In this week's Growth Edge episode, I sit down with my dear friend Dr. Seun Adetayo, an immigrant, surgeon, leader, and trailblazer. Drawn to challenges inside + outside of the OR, she delivers a masterclass on: organizational culture leadership courage cultural competence and ethnic diversity in healthcare   Cultural Competence and Ethnic Diversity in Healthcare - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc...

In this week's episode of the Growth Edge podcast, I sit back down with Dr. Michael Frisina to dig deeper into the behavioral attributes of high performing leaders.     https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-e-frisina-phd-ltc-r-united-states-army-717a9614/   https://www.thefrisinagroup.com/about/  

In this week's Growth Edge podcast episode, I sit down for a coaching conversation with Dr. Michael Frisina about how our brains react and respond to crises and a science-based approach to behavioral performance in organizations.   We discuss:   - The critical importance of alignment and engagement between employees and their leaders to drive organizational performance.   - Being self-aware, inten...

In this week's Growth Edge podcast, I sit down with healthcare executive Jhaymee Tynan. Jhaymee is an accomplished leader and a passionate advocate for sponsorship and the role that it can play in increasing diversity and inclusion within healthcare leadership. Listen in as we explore her expertise in this space and the important work she's undertaking as the Founder and CEO of 100 x 2030. Jhaymee...

In this week's Growth Edge podcast episode, I sit down with Dr. Renee Dversdal, #Hospitalist, #POCUS expert, and CMO of @VaveHealth. We discuss exploring options outside of medicine, her passion for teaching, her penchant for lifelong learning and growth, her work as a super connector, and the importance of representation in leadership. Dr. Dversdal on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/renee-...

In this week's Growth Edge podcast episode, I chat with Dr. Abby Spencer, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Cleveland Clinic. This powerhouse physician leader has a passion for teaching, developing others, mentoring, service, and advocacy. We discuss:   - her earliest teaching opportunity, tutoring women prisoners as an undergrad   - how dangerous and...

In this week's Growth Edge Podcast, I sit down with orthopaedic fellow Dr. Colm McCarthy, an absolute rock star physician leader, champion of others, and #HeForShe. We discuss a number of timely and important topics: seeing a gap and stepping into it being an includer opening and holding the door for others destigmatizing physician #wellbeing #burnout and #suicide asking for help disrupting the st...

In this week's Growth Edge podcast episode, I sit down with young healthcare leader, Christian Balcer. We discuss the importance of living a well-examined life, navigating career transitions, and the value of clarity of one's personal values and principles. https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianbalcer/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/needed-change-my-search-whats-next-christian-balcer-mhsa/   The Se...

In this week's episode of the Growth Edge podcast, Dr. Leslie Kuhnel is back to dig deeper into the issue of ethics, and how it applies to leadership.   Leslie is the Division Vice President of Ethics for CHI Health / CommonSpirit Health, and a long time friend and colleague who stewards the important work of collaborating with clinicians and leaders to guide ethical decision making in her organiz...

In this week's episode of the Growth Edge podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Leslie Kuhnel, Division Vice President of Ethics for CHI Health / CommonSpirit Health. Leslie is a long time friend and colleague, who stewards the important work of collaborating with clinicians and leaders to guide ethical decision making. We discuss:     - complexities of healthcare and humanity,  - nurturing trust,     - prov...

In this week's episode of the Growth Edge podcast, I speak with incoming high school senior, Ojas Bhagra. He shares his passion for exploring the richness of humanity through advocacy, community, and a powerful initiative called Stories of Stigma and Strength.   Stories of Stigma and Strength is a community initiative that aims to shatter stigma one story at a time. This important work advocates f...

Most leaders agree that coaching is important, but few adopt the practice of being coached and coachable. In this week's episode, we'll explore what it means to be coachable, how coach ability drives performance, and five attributes of coachable leaders.

In this week's episode of the Growth Edge podcast, Dr. Sheritta Strong, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Inclusion at the University of Nebraska Medical Center joins me to explore the important topics of quelling fear amid uncertainty, stepping in to tough conversations, being an ally and an upstander. She also shares the four D's - a model for intervention when you observe racism...

In this week's Growth Edge podcast episode, I welcome my long time colleague, friend, and co-author, health system CEO Natalie Lamberton to the show. A hospital CEO by age 29, in a community where she was the only person of color, this powerhouse leader has contributed substantially to healthcare as an executive, educator, author, and mentor. Buckle up, as we explore: developing the next generatio...

On this week's episode of the Growth Edge podcast, I sit down with author, professor, and researcher @David to discuss mentorship, sponsorship, allyship, and advancing equity and inclusion in the workplace.   We dig into: psychosocial elements of mentorship that are crucial in times of crisis the unique differences between mentorship, sponsorship, and allyship how to audit our networks and relatio...

Stonish Pierce is an accomplished healthcare executive, and long-time colleague who joins me for an important conversation about allyship in action. He shares practical and actionable steps that leaders can consider to leverage their power, their privilege, or their platform to bridge the gap between our current reality and a more diverse and inclusive future. Suggested resources: Diversity on the...

Dr. Jasmine Marcelin is an infectious disease physician, a leader in her organization, an award winning educator, national speaker and lecturer, and active mentor. In this week's episode, we step into a hard, but important conversation regarding unconscious bias. We: define unconscious bias examine its history and evolution explore the importance of a tribe; social circle, community of safety and...

Dr. Tiffany Love is a hospital COO, a nurse leader, a healthcare executive, a speaker, educator, and mentor, and a tireless champion for change and excellence. In this week's Growth Edge podcast episode, we consider where we are as a nation and specifically within healthcare related to racial diversity and disparities, and discuss how we, together, can bring about the change that we seek. We revie...

In this week's episode, I chat with Dr. Ronn Johnson about assessing and addressing systemic and structural racism in law enforcement. Dr. Johnson is a clinical psychologist, a Professor in the department of Clinical Psychiatry, and the Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in Creighton University's School of Medicine. His scholarly research centers around recruitment and selection of law enf...

Dr. Dan DeBehnke is an emergency care physician who became a health system CEO and now is an advisor to executives of healthcare systems. Needless to say, the last couple of months he's been monitoring the effects of the COVID pandemic and evaluating how healthcare systems can best respond in this time of decreased profit margins.  Dr. DeBehnke believes that, like it or not, the genie is out of th...

Whether it's a global pandemic, the loss of a loved one, a devastating clinical outcome, divorce, or other major life stressor, everyone experiences some form of adversity during their lives. It's really not a matter of if, but when. How you manage adversity impacts not only your well-being and personal relationships, it affects your capacity to perform professionally, and may even have organizati...

The theme of communication winds through Dr. Lillian Erdahl's childhood and adult life. As a child, she loved to perform, act, and deliver messages to a crowd. As an adult, being a surgeon has brought with it roles heavy in communication. Through her various roles, she finds herself engaged in communication not only in the classroom and with patients but in online spaces through social media and p...

Dr. Cortney Baker is a mom, CEO, author, podcaster, and an inspiration to professional women. She had some rough patches early in life, but by taking ownership of her journey, she skipped out on playing the victim, and instead she wrote her own script. Today she's chairman and CEO of KidsCare, a multimillion dollar healthcare agency in multiple US states, and her influence reaches even farther. In...

Dr. Jason Mizell understands first-hand how puzzling and overwhelming finances can be to physicians. After all, in school their courses include very little, if any, business or financial material. When the handsome paychecks start rolling in, along with credit offers, and social expectations, it's too easy for young doctors to find themselves buried in student loans and other debt. This affects th...

When Dr. Qaali Hussein's family fled war-torn Somalia in the '90s, she experienced trauma first-hand. Today as an trauma surgeon, helping patients through life-changing events is what she specializes in. Mending and repairing is what she loves doing. But her path to medical school was full of roadblocks. When a hijab-wearing Muslim girl announces she wants to be a mother and a surgeon, her culture...