What brought you into medicine?

What is your ideal career?

When was the last time you ate dinner with your family?

Do you long for control over your time and bring more meaning and fulfillment into your practice?

Coaching can enable you to move toward that career you dreamed of

As a physician who has worked in clinical medicine for 34 years and 22 in physician leadership, I know and understand the rigors of today’s medical environment.

• Time Whittled and Robbed from Patients and Staff
• Increasing Time on Electronic Records
• Inflating Regulatory Compliance
• Demand for Perfectionism

Burnout among physicians and other healthcare providers is the result of these challenges and is robbing them of the joy that attracted them to medicine.

As a coach, I will help you align your values with that which you were designed to be and do in medicine.

Coaching uses careful listening and powerful questions to rediscover those values, explore what the future can hold, and design a path toward that career you dreamed of.

Leaders in medicine have their own unique challenges; I know them well.

When I dreamed of my career, I hadn’t thought of becoming a chief medical officer. However, midway through my career in medicine, my strong desire to improve the organization I worked in demanded I step forward to become a leader of my peers.

Like other physicians, who have been trained to be clinicians and not leaders, I was ill equipped—team communication, collaboration, dealing with conflict, and leading teams were not part of my tool kit.

The Harvard Business Review (Oct 7th 2013) identified four major challenges for physicians in leadership:

• Organizational noise with too many goals and demands
• Knowledge deficit in organizational leadership
• Lack of experience in building and collaborating effective teams
• Shift in time frame from short term clinical work to long term “business time”

Fortunately, I was provided a coach who worked with me to fill in the knowledge deficits of leadership and give me the confidence, skills, and joy in medical leadership that I had sorely missed.

Modern healthcare is demanding increasingly that physicians take leadership roles in their organizations. After all, who is better equipped than a physician to help improve the quality, efficiency, and access to care of our patients?