Healthcare Leadership Development

Create cohesive, high-performing teams with scalable programs for leadership in healthcare.

Choose the Right Healthcare Leadership Development Solution for Your Organization

Collaborate with our experienced team of industry experts to build a leadership in healthcare program from the ground up.

  • Customize an evidence-based solution to meet your organization’s needs at all levels of the organization and for your unique context and culture
  • Prioritize and solve immediate and long-term goals with a custom healthcare leadership plan
  • Learn to leverage your talent as a competitive advantage to solve any challenge or disruption at your organization

Our experts draw from extensive experience, rigorous research into leadership analytics, and their own hands-on practice, to create measurable and high-impact healthcare leadership programs.

  • Take advantage of the latest research and evaluation expertise in healthcare
  • Experience the power of the world’s largest 360-degree assessment database for healthcare professionals

Scale development across your organization with our flexible, turnkey, comprehensive subscription to our full leadership development course content library. Built on decades of research, CCL Passport™ offers a master license for all of our trusted content, tools, and programs.

  • Scale development with curated learning paths for every leader level
  • Customize our evidence-based, ready-to-deliver leadership development resources for your company, with the option to create derivative works

Essential Training for Leadership in Healthcare

To be a top healthcare organization, you have to consistently deliver high-quality, cost-efficient care and services. Unfortunately, traditional healthcare models are making this increasingly difficult even for the most organized and experienced teams. Luckily, evolving care models and innovative solutions are creating opportunities like never before, with a robust focus on strengthening leadership in healthcare.

These new leadership opportunities are changing the way healthcare professionals work and grow,  transforming skills that move talented clinicians, pharmacists, and other healthcare and life sciences professionals beyond dated models, communication barriers, and organizational silos.

With decades of experience transforming healthcare leaders and companies, we can help you shift toward a more collaborative model, one that brings top talent and senior leadership together to find creative solutions to today’s most complex challenges. Our healthcare leadership development solutions are designed to provide maximum learning and growth for your leaders at the individual, team, and organizational levels.

It’s time to transform challenges into opportunities for breakthrough performance and competitive advantage. Explore our comprehensive portfolio of solutions for building more effective leadership in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and population health.

At CCL, we’ve shaped the leadership development industry for nearly 6 decades through pioneering research and evidence-based innovation. We’re proud of our extensive expertise and experience serving organizations seeking leadership development strategies and solutions.

As trusted architects of transformation, we partner with clients — from global Fortune 500 companies to regional nonprofits — to help them tackle the leadership challenges they face, including leadership training for healthcare organizations. When working with us, your organization can expect:

  • Evidence-based leadership training solutions, based on over 50 years of research and decades of experience in leader development
  • Collaboration with best-in-class leadership experts who have earned many awards and accolades for our partnerships with clients
  • Customized white-glove services tailored to your organization’s needs and drawing insights from one of the largest leadership research databases in the world
  • Transformational, personalized programs centered on your leaders’ individual strengths, skills, and real-world challenges
  • Access to scalable learning experiences that foster new ways of thinking, expand capacity, and drive sustainable growth across your organization
  • Partnership with a mission-driven organization working to advance the practice of leadership worldwide through a belief in the positive ripple effect that leadership development can have on individuals, teams, organizations, and society.

Our approach goes beyond skill-building — we help leaders instill new, deeper ways of thinking. With CCL as your partner for healthcare leadership training, you gain evidence-based, purpose-driven development that delivers meaningful, measurable, lasting impact for your organization.

More About Healthcare Leadership Development

Best-in-Class Leadership in Healthcare, Based on a Collaborative Approach

Leverage the power of cross-disciplinary collaboration to help your leadership teams span departments, disciplines, and even geographic locations.

Use our scalable healthcare leadership development models to prepare your organization for the challenges created by adoption of new technologies, shortages, turnover, policy and payer reform, and more.

From company executives and senior leaders to clinicians, pharmacists, and patient care teams, we develop more effective leaders in a research-based, collaborative training environment.

We Can Help Accelerate Your Healthcare Leadership Development

With 5 decades of experience strengthening leadership  in healthcare organizations, we take a system-wide approach to delivering cost-effective programs that are designed to bring out the best in your leaders.

We understand the importance of profitability and competition and can help you focus your healthcare leadership development investments on the skills most relevant to achieving critical business metrics.

Let us partner with you for healthcare leadership development solutions to build team collaboration and help your leaders lead with intention. We’re with you every step of the way, always keeping the employee experience front and center.

Impact of Our Healthcare Leadership Development Solutions

What participants said about partnering with us to strengthen leadership in healthcare organizations:

would recommend the course to others
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have been able to apply program lessons at work
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say they’re more effective as a leader
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What Our Clients Are Saying

As a top-ranked provider of leadership development, we’ve helped develop more effective leadership in the pharmaceutical industry and in healthcare organizations for more than 50 years, partnering with widely recognized healthcare providers to achieve transformational change.

Our work includes development initiatives and organizational interventions for health systems; pharmaceutical and medical device companies; corporate health-related organizations; and healthcare research groups — as well as nonprofit public health and population health organizations. But don’t just take our word for it — take theirs.

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The bottom line that it came to is being able to help develop our leaders in the organization. Understanding that the way to do that is not just through the classroom, but in supporting them outside the classroom. And one of those ways is in a formal coaching relationship.

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HR Leader & Coach

Major U.S.-Based Healthcare System

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We needed to change our vision around systemwide succession planning. We have created a critical mass of leaders who are connected, collaborative, and committed to our mission. We are working in more system-focused ways and leveraging our strengths in ways we never anticipated.

Mercy Health

Jon Abeles

Senior VP of Talent Management and Diversity

Mercy Health

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As a large regional healthcare system, we face new challenges every day. Working with CCL has helped us fortify a strong leadership team by providing the leadership tools to perform our jobs more effectively. As a result, we’re more agile in dealing with tough challenges like patient satisfaction and other operational
issues. We’re now faster at getting to the root of problems — and developing creative solutions to solve them. That makes a real impact on our bottom line!

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William Pryor

CHRO

Cape Fear Valley Health

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I had my first coaching session and found it a perfect fit and the most wonderful support ever. I’ve been struggling with oppressive work demands, and this was exactly what I needed.

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Debbie Swanson, MS, RN

Director of Public Health, Grand Forks, ND

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Physician engagement and leadership quotient allows Cone to better serve the community and promote positive health outcomes. Since the PLA has been in place, engagement among our physicians has grown.

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Mary Jo Cagle, MD

Chief Executive Officer, Cone Health, PLA Graduate

Cone Health

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Let’s Talk About What Leadership in Healthcare Looks Like for You

Our experts are here to help. Let’s talk about partnering to create a customized healthcare leadership development solution. 

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Leadership in Healthcare: Research & Resources

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Frequently Asked Questions About Leadership in Healthcare

As new care models and innovative industry solutions emerge, increased focus has been placed on preparing leaders in healthcare so they’re ready to take on future challenges. To strengthen healthcare leaders, your organization can partner with a leadership development provider like the Center for Creative Leadership to build their skills, moving them beyond dated models and breaking down communication barriers and organizational silos. The most effective healthcare leadership development programs leverage cross-disciplinary collaboration and utilize a system-wide approach that helps individuals more effectively span boundaries across departments, disciplines, and even physical locations. 

Leadership development in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries is important because it prepares individuals and organizations to take on the unique challenges that are created by new technologies, shortages, turnover, policies, and payer reform. It  also helps build individual collaboration, communication, and boundary-spanning skills, ultimately improving patient care, outcomes, and satisfaction.

Our top-ranked, research-backed leadership in healthcare programs are effective at developing healthcare leaders at all levels — from company executives and senior leaders to clinicians, pharmacists, researchers, physicians, and patient care teams. Each solution is highly collaborative and tailored to address your organization’s unique context, culture, and challenges. 

If you’re looking for a tailored healthcare leadership development program, we recommend partnering with us to co-create a customized leadership in healthcare solution which allows your organization to collaborate with our experienced healthcare leadership development experts to build a solution for your team from the ground up. For  more scalable, turnkey solutions, explore our proven leadership tools and training materials, which enable you to leverage our world-class research to hold internal trainings that can be combined with work-based assignments, team facilitation, candid coaching, and senior-level support.

More questions? Our experts are here to help. Let’s have a conversation!