Healthcare Leadership

Lives depend upon your leadership!

Healthcare leaders operate at the intersection of complexity, care, and constant change. Whether you’re a seasoned executive ready for more sophisticated challenges or a clinician stepping into management, Dr. Valerie Myers helps bridge the gap between your current strengths and the skills required to thrive in today’s healthcare landscape.

Through dynamic, research-informed learning experiences, Dr. Myers equips leaders to navigate complexity, align teams, and elevate both culture and care delivery. Her executive education courses—ideal for high-potential talent, physicians, and clinicians transitioning into administrative roles—transform leadership potential into lasting performance.

Use Positive Power to Transform People, Performance & Culture
Aligning Systems & People for Excellent Performance
Transition to Executive Role
Inclusive Leadership

Custom courses, executive coaching, and organizational consulting services are available. Are you ready to strengthen your leadership impact?

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Executive Education Courses

“Great healthcare leaders don’t just manage— they transform cultures, improve outcomes, and save lives.”

High reliability depends upon supportive systems, collegial relationships, and staff who are energized and engaged. Learn how the best leaders enhance all three.

What you will learn & do...

How work culture influences engagement.

How leaders use positive regard to improve relationships.

Use job design to energize performance.

Compensation structures.

Dealing with "problem" employees.

Encourage flourishing of all team members.

Format: 6-8 sessions

Aligning Systems & People for

Excellent Performance

Avoid common missteps of new leaders and seamlessly transition to your next role. This is a supportive space, reflection, learning, and building collegiality.

What you will learn & do...

Gain a broad, systems perspective of healthcare management.

Increase self-awareness of your blindspots and how to correct them.

Learn and apply decision-making frameworks.

Tactics to inspire and engage your team.

Learn principles of change management and develop an action plan.

Format: Curriculum may include 1-5 modules, 6 sessions each. Modules: Intro to leadership, Process Improvement, Relationships, Innovation, and Strategy.

Transition to Executive Role

Creating a culture of belonging takes more than metrics and implicit bias training. It requires skills to drive systemic change

What you will learn & do...

Insights to help you overcome your ambivalence toward DE&I.

Skills to manage perceptions of people who are different.

Increase self-awareness of your blindspots and how to correct them.

Frameworks for ethical decision-making.

Elements of a belonging culture.

Learn psychology of change management to develop an action plan for systemic change.

Format: 6 - 8 sessions

Inclusive Leadership

Dr. Valerie L. Myers' vast expertise in healthcare management is informed by a decade of research and teaching executive and graduate courses in the University of Michigan's Department Healthcare Management; Dartmouth College's Master of Health Care Delivery Science (Geisel Medical School and Tuck Business School); and Simmons College Healthcare Executive Education. Select clients include Blue Cross Blue Shield, Henry Ford Health System, Trinity Health, Michigan Medicine, Altarum, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, and the Greater Detroit Area Health Council.

Expertise

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Leadership
Strategy
Organizational Climate & Culture
Employee Engagement
Diversity & Inclusive Leadership
Change Management

Courses Taught

COURSES TAUGHT

Leading Healthcare Organizations
Ascending to the C-Suite
Healthcare Strategy
Inclusive Leadership
Aligning Systems & People for Excellent Performance
Strategic Curiosity®

Professional Services

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Executive Education
Executive Coaching
Organizational Diagnostics
Change Management
1-on-1 Coaching
Board Development
Keynote Address
Retreats
Strategic Planning

Executive education courses provide an MBA / MHSA learning experience for seasoned leaders as well as new leaders who are assuming positions of greater responsibility. Standard content typically entails 4-6 learning sessions. Customized content, additional sessions, and executive coaching are also available.

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