THE LEADERSHIP LENS PODCAST - TILLER-HEWITT

The Cost of Dirty Today my guest is Dr. L. Carol Scott – a PhD in Developmental Psychology - a three-time Leadership Lens Podcast guest, and that's for a good reason. Dr. Scott's leadership topics go deep, and frankly, they hit at the heart of what we need to hear... and know as leaders. As I was debriefing with Dr. Scott after our interview about how insightful, thought-provoking and frankly alar...

A Blueprint for Modern Leadership Welcome to the Leadership Lens Podcast! I'm your host, Tammy Tiller-Hewitt, and today we have a very special returning guest who’s been on an incredible career trajectory – Matt Fry, President and CEO of Freeman Health System. Now, if you're imagining a healthcare executive reading dry business books, think again. Matt's current reading list includes the latest St...

What Else Are We Here For Than To Become This leadership podcast interview blew my mind!  I have two guests - a scientist and a healthcare executive to bring real life to the interview and topic.  Listen, given the term self-awareness has become such an overused cliché – I didn’t even want to use that in the title, in fear some leaders would think it was too fluffy or a feel-good interview, when i...

How Something So Small Can Change a Career Trajectory   Hey Leaders! Today my guest is Scott Johnson – Chief Strategy Officer at St Luke’s Health System.  I’ve had the privilege of working with Scott, executing his vision of successfully standing up over 70, yes seven zero physician outreach programs across the country simultaneously.  Don’t you just want to hear what makes a man with that kind of...

Moving from Innovation to Transformation Without Going off the Rails Hey Leaders, you’re about to hear from a gifted and humble Chief Transformation Officer who shares valuable lessons from her journey as a practicing physician to Chief Innovation Officer and now the organization’s first Chief Transformation Officer.  She puts a very different spin on thinking outside the proverbial healthcare box...

Today my guest is Yelena Bouaziz. Of all my podcast interviews, this might be my hardest to tee up because she took us to so- many - places. You’ll love hearing about her journey as an only child, and an impressionable teenage girl, her family immigrated from Russia to (wait for it) North Carolina. From Russia to North Carolina. If that doesn’t scream culture shock, nothing will!  She shares a cou...

Actual Change Management You are about to meet our guest Greg McFarland, the Chief Operating Officer of Hillcrest Medical Center – an over 650-bed hospital located in midtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. Greg is a young, no-nonsense leader telling real-life leadership stories that stick, like the difference between a consumer and a patient, and will have you shaking your head in agreement and then something s...

Today my guest is Matt Fry – President and CEO of St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Illinois – a member of Hospital Sisters Health System.  Like all leaders Matt is crazy busy – leading their flagship hospital while wrapping up his doctorate degree – but he candidly gives us great insight or what he refers to as his “dirty little secret” around successful leadership.

30-Seconds to Change a Career Trajectory My guest today is Chris Klay, President & CEO of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, a member of the Hospital Sisters Health System or HSHS. I’m always blown away when I hear real-life stories of a leader’s career journey, especially when the people who influence them the most were the least aware of the fire they ignited. Chris has one of those stories and a powerfu...

Why relationships matter to success, no matter what kind of success you seek. My guest today is Dr. L. Carol Scott who believes that relationships are at the heart of all our success. As a TEDx speaker, international best-selling author, coach, trainer, and keynoter, Dr. Scott’s unique model helps to revolutionize success through self-aware emotional and social intelligence—from your business netw...

When Leaders Leave the Room Today my guest is Frank Sawyer – VP of Operations at Trinity Health Oakland Hospital. Frank is a young leader who didn’t waste time climbing the corporate ladder – but he did so it in a manner that reminded me of the great leaders highlighted in Jim Collins’ NYT best-selling book Good to Great. He shares some of his servant-leadership traits and I particularly loved wha...

Doubt Your Doubts My guest today is William Mahoney – President and CEO of Cox Medical Center in Branson Missouri, one of the most popular and long-standing vacation destinations in the Midwest.  William shares a mass casualty story that made national news and the testimony of one survivor’s unconscionable loss, which he suggests likely prepared him and his organization for the pandemic. While a f...

Was it hiding in plain sight? My guest today is Dr. Michael Frisina an internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker, and author. He has developed leaders and organizational teams worldwide. Every year he speaks to national and international healthcare organizations, non-profit organizations and audiences as diverse as engineers to organ procurement organizations. He is a featured speaker f...

Leadership Tradeoffs Today my guest is Dr. Chuck Callahan, Leader of Memorial Health System – a multi-hospital health system in Springfield Illinois.  Chuck has the most diverse background which may be his secret leadership weapon. Wait until you hear his answers to management trade-offs, what intel and healthcare have in common, or how the simplification and sequencing of their values pre-pandemi...

Embracing Crucial Conversations My guest is Devon Hyde, CEO of Lake Charles Memorial Health System. His health system is located in Lake Charles, LA – a city coined as the most weather-battered city in the United States – wait until you hear what they endured to earn that designation. Devon has leadership experience in both non-profit and for-profit health systems and shares great insight into the...

Game-Changing Leadership Ideas My guest is Darcy Craven, CEO at Archbold Medical Center. I think we all agree, we learn more from our mistakes than our successes – Darcy reveals his biggest leadership regret – one that I wished universities would do a better job teaching – but for many of our listeners could be a leadership game-changer.  He shares his secrets for measurable “strategic” growth, hi...

My guest is Jim Carter, the Senior Vice President/Chief Operating Officer of Archbold Medical Center. This podcast interview is so full of leadership insight – it was difficult for me to create a short summary. Today’s interview is for leaders in ALL SEASONS of their careers.  We talked about role models – good and bad – even from some very unpredictable places, we talked about imaginary scorecard...

Building Physician Groups that are Strategic Assets to the Health System My guest today is Dave Miller, founding partner of HSG Advisors the leader in Employed Physician Networks and Physician Alignment.  You don’t have to take my word for it, because of their expertise, Dave and his team consistently publish for ACHE, MGMA, AMGMA, and provide case studies from health systems across the country th...

My guest is Christina Carney, the Chief Executive Officer of Shawnee Health Service. Christina got me in the first 5 minutes of the podcast reminding me that while leaders change organizations – good leaders don’t change their leadership perspective.  We talk about leadership burn-out, how to resist a popular leadership urge, and as a six-sigma Black-belt, Christina doesn’t disappoint when providi...

Today on the Leadership Lens Podcast we have Dr. Steen Trawick, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer of CHRISTUS Shreveport-Bossier Health System. Dr. Trawick started his first dual CEO/CMO position less than a year before the global pandemic hit. Then his hospital was the first in the health system and region to admit a COVID patient. So, thankfully his “can’t over-communicate” a...

My guest today is Cameron McGregor the Chief Growth Officer for Ms. Medicine. This isn’t Cameron’s first executive role. In fact, she shares her experience leaving a senior system-level executive role in a large successful health system to be a part of this innovative women’s healthcare start-up. Cameron has some very thought-provoking answers to my leadership questions. Perhaps one of her best wa...

With the untimely passing of Dr. Mike Finley in June 2022, we lost a legend, leader and true friend. Dr. Finley epitomized leadership through example with steadfast values, candor, passion and human compassion. This exemplifies his legacy, and we hope you will find it inspiring. It’s always a treat to hear from a physician executive with years of experience. First as an independent practicing phys...

Looking at the NOW, NEAR & FAR My guest is Diane Maas – Chief Strategy and Digital Growth Officer for Beacon Health, a health system recognized - across the industry - for its unprecedented innovation. This interview had me on the edge of my seat as Diane shared countless systems in place to ensure the entire organization stays on track to hit their strategic goals …in the NOW, the near, and the f...