Category: Leadership & Management

Many people are familiar with impostor syndrome, particularly in psychological and social contexts. However, a new report released June 6 from organizational consulting firm Korn Ferry highlights the concept’s prevalence among CEOs in the U.S.

Much like his last name, Matthew Love, president and CEO of Nicklaus Children’s Health System in Miami, truly loves what he does. It’s this love that drives his goal for a simple yet large mission: ensuring healthcare access for all children. 

Throughout their careers, Laureen Driscoll, MSN, RN, and Kathy Tussey, DNP, RN, remained open to change and said yes more often than no, even to opportunities about which they were skeptical or knew would be a challenge. 

After the pandemic, most healthcare leaders experienced a “great resignation” as workers left for other service industries and ever since health systems have been dealing with a lack of skilled labor to backfill the vacancies.

Ann Lurie, a renowned philanthropist for which the Chicago-based Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital is named, has died at 79, the Chicago Tribune reported June 24.

In 2019, Michael Dowling began reaching out to peers at other leading health systems to garner support in collectively acknowledging and addressing gun violence as a public health crisis. Few were willing to sign on to such efforts. 

Pamela Stephenson, who served as CEO of Atlanta-based Grady Memorial Hospital and as a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives, died June 17, according to the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She was 73. 

Todd Forkel, CEO of Altru Health System in Grand Forks, N.D., quite literally knows what it’s like to walk in his colleagues shoes, and it’s all because of a program called “Shadow Me, Todd.”

Like many professions in healthcare, hospital and health system financial roles are evolving to keep up with the demand of a changing landscape. The focus has shifted away from crunching numbers all day to mixing in creative and strategic ways to keep …

Lorenzo Brown, president and CEO of AdventHealth Fish Memorial in Orange City, Fla., and Market CEO of West Volusia, is providing some clarity to an important leadership question: “What does a CEO do?”