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Prepare Your Healthcare Leadership Team for the Future

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

To be a top healthcare organization means delivering high-quality, cost-efficient care and services. Realizing that objective is becoming increasingly difficult under traditional healthcare leadership models — even for the most organized and experienced teams. The industry has increased its focus on strengthening leadership in healthcare as evolving care models and innovative solutions create opportunities like never before.

How? By 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.

Transform challenges into opportunities for breakthrough performance and competitive advantage with our comprehensive portfolio of solutions for building more effective leadership in healthcare and in population health.

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

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

Use our scalable models to develop and prepare leaders at 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-backed, collaborative training environment.

We Can Help Accelerate Your Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Leadership Development

With 5 decades of experience strengthening leadership in healthcare organizations – health systems, pharmaceutical firms, medical device makers, and more – we take a system-wide approach to delivering cost-effective programs that are designed to bring out the best in your people.

We understand the importance of profitability and competition and can help you focus your 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 people lead with intention. We’re with you every step of the way, always keeping the employee experience front and center.

Choose the Right Healthcare Leadership Solution for Your Organization

Customized Leadership in Healthcare Solutions

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

Innovative Research & Analysis for Leadership in Healthcare

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

Proven Leadership Tools & Training Materials

Our standalone leadership development tools and training materials maximize impact in healthcare leadership development through work-based assignments, team facilitation, coaching, and senior-level support.

Increase the scale and impact of your in-house development offerings
Leverage your existing internal facilitators and talent to deliver our research-based content
Develop a common leadership language across your organization and see long-term results

What Our Healthcare Clients Are Saying

For 50 years, we’ve helped develop more effective leadership in healthcare, partnering with widely-recognized healthcare providers to achieve transformational change, organization-wide.

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.

“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.”

HR Leader & Coach
Major U.S.-Based Healthcare System

Making Coaching a Positive Development Opportunity

“Through our partnership with CCL, 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.”

Jon Abeles
Senior Vice President, Talent Management & Diversity
Mercy Health

Health System Creates Academy to Change Culture & Strengthen Leadership

“I’ve been struggling with oppressive work demands, and this was exactly what I needed. It will be life changing for me to continue to receive this coaching for the next month as I navigate many leadership challenges with elected officials, the media, and a multitude of stakeholders – not to mention the important work of supporting our own public health response team.”

Debbie Swanson, MS, RN
Director of Public Health
Grand Forks, ND

Coaches From CCL Volunteer 1,400 Hours of Virtual Coaching for Nurses During Pandemic, Increasing Resilience and Leadership Skills

“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. That makes a real impact on our bottom line!”

William Pryor
CHRO
Cape Fear Valley Health

Cape Fear Valley Health Increases Collaboration and Efficiency

“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.”

Mary Jo Cagle, MD
Chief Executive Officer, Cone Health
PLA Graduate

Healthcare Transformation Through Physician Leadership

Impact of Our Healthcare Leadership Solutions

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

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Meet Our Healthcare Leadership Expert

Nick Hines, MBA
Director, Healthcare – Americas

Nick leads our healthcare team and brings 25 years of healthcare operations and strategy experience as a senior executive. His passion is designing innovative approaches in partnering with healthcare organizations to meet their leadership development goals and driving culturally competent models of care.

Meet more of our experts specializing in population health leadership.

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

We’re here to help. Prioritize your most valuable asset at your organization — your people — by partnering with us for a customized healthcare leadership development solution. Get in touch with us about your needs.

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