Organizational Partnerships
Great physicians don't automatically make great leaders. Stepping into a leadership role requires an entirely different skill set—one that medical school didn't teach us. As a fellow physician, I speak your medical staff's language—I've sat in the meetings where trust breaks down, and I know what it costs an organization when it does.
While I primarily work one-on-one with physicians, I also partner with healthcare organizations to develop physician leaders who can build trust, navigate complexity, strengthen relationships, and align clinical and organizational goals.
Whether you need to address an organizational challenge, understand what's getting in the way, develop a physician leader, or select the right person for a leadership role, I offer four ways to help.
Interactive Forums
A customized, physician-focused leadership forum addressing the real operational, cultural, and relational challenges your organization is facing.
Built specifically around your organization's current clinical, cultural, and operational environment, I provide an intensive, half-day interactive forum focused on the precise physician leadership challenges your team faces today. Rather than delivering a canned presentation, I facilitate real-time discussion, collaborative problem-solving, and practical strategies your leaders can put into action, keeping the conversation focused on what matters most to your organization.
Planning note: Because each forum is customized to your organization's needs, I request a minimum of three months' lead time.
Onsite Assessment and Feedback
An objective, boots-on-the-ground assessment to uncover the factors driving leadership, cultural, and operational challenges.
Diagnosing organizational and leadership problems from inside the organization can be challenging when you're responsible for running the day-to-day business. When you're immersed in the organization, the underlying causes of friction, dysfunction, or missed opportunities can be easy to overlook.
Whether your concerns involve a specific department, your leadership team, or individual leaders, an independent perspective can reveal what is difficult to see from within.
I provide a full day of onsite observation and in-depth interviews with your team, gaining a firsthand understanding of your organization's leadership dynamics, culture, and operational environment.
The day concludes with a direct executive debrief and actionable recommendations designed to address the issues identified and move your organization forward.
The goal isn't simply to identify problems. It's to give leadership a clearer understanding of what's happening and a practical path forward.
Invest in the physician leaders who can have a meaningful influence on your organization's culture, performance, and future.
The Leadership Optimization Package is my comprehensive, individualized approach to helping physicians make the transition from expert physician to exceptional leader. Over nine months via video conferencing, we’ll explore leadership strengths, uncover the patterns that may be limiting their impact, and develop the character, connection, and leadership skills needed to lead with greater effectiveness and confidence.
What’s Included:
The Leadership Circle Profile: They'll complete the scientifically validated 360° Leadership Circle Profile, which provides an objective view of how their leadership behaviors and internal patterns affect their effectiveness. I'll provide dedicated interpretive coaching and action planning to turn those insights into development.
Targeted Leadership Coaching: We’ll have twice-monthly deep-dive coaching sessions up to 1 hour each for the first 6 months, transitioning to monthly integration coaching sessions for the final 3 months. Three areas of focus:
🔥Firefighter: Immediate leadership challenges that need rapid attention—urgent decisions, difficult interactions, HR situations, or upcoming presentations.
🏗️ Foundation Builder: Core leadership capabilities identified through their Leadership Circle Profile that will strengthen their leadership foundation.
🪨Sculptor: The finishing touches—refining the higher-level aspects of their leadership style that can take them from capable to exceptional.
On-Demand Support: They’ll have nine additional Mini Curbside Consults to deploy between sessions for near real-time🔥firefighter situations.
Leadership Optimization Package
Physician Leadership Selection
An external assessment of top candidates for key physician leadership positions—providing another perspective on a high-stakes decision.
Selecting a physician leader such as a Chief Medical Officer is a high-stakes decision for any hospital executive team. The wrong hire is expensive in ways that don't show up in the financials right away—a fractured medical staff, stalled initiatives, people who start quietly looking elsewhere.
It can be difficult to accurately assess how a candidate will actually perform from a series of traditional interviews alone. I equip healthcare executive teams with an objective, external physician leadership assessment of your top finalists.
Drawing on my experience as a physician and executive leader, I deliver a candid assessment of each finalist's perceived strengths, potential blind spots, leadership style, and likely fit within your organization's culture. This gives you an additional physician-executive perspective as you make one of your most consequential hiring decisions.
The question isn't simply whether a candidate can lead. It's whether they can lead effectively within your organization's culture, relationships, and expectations.
This can be paired with the Leadership Optimization Package to provide structured support for the selected leader after the hire, helping set the leader and organization up for a healthy, long-term transition.
What Others Are Saying
I had the opportunity to work closely with Jon, and I’ve seen firsthand his ability to lead and influence both physicians and administrative teams. As a non-physician and former Chief Human Resource Officer, I particularly appreciated Jon’s understanding of the distinction between being an excellent physician and an effective leader—recognizing the skills, mindset and behaviors that make someone a great clinician do not automatically translate into great leadership.
He has a proven track record and deep commitment to developing physician leaders and, equally important, understands how to build trust and credibility across both the clinical and administrative sides of an organization. This positions Jon exceptionally well to help physicians navigate that transition. Jon also recognizes that leadership development starts with self-awareness—understanding our own personalities, tendencies, and blind spots that can sometimes become roadblocks to our success.
I’ve always appreciated his ability to combine the art and science of leadership: applying sound leadership principles while understanding that relationships, influence, judgment, and emotional intelligence are equally important. I believe Jon has a unique ability to help physicians become more effective leaders while also strengthening the connection between physicians and the broader organization.
Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resource Officer
Equip Your Physicians to Lead.
Change Your Organization.
Invest in diagnostic-driven physician leadership development designed around the people, challenges, and culture of your organization.
True leadership development is a critical investment for your organization. Before we begin, we’ll have a one-on-one discussion to review your objectives and make sure this path is right. Because this partnership requires real collaboration, I ask that you answer a few brief questions to make sure we're the right fit for each other.
Click to request your Leadership Connection Conversation.
Duration: 30 Minutes | Investment: Complimentary
