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About the Program

May 5 – 9, 2025

This management and leadership development program is designed to improve your skills and increase your knowledge, preparing you to tackle complex challenges, comprehend cost analysis, drive change, and effectively manage health care departments and divisions.

On-Site
Leadership and Management
Executive Leadership in Health Care Certificate of Specialization

Program Fees

  • Standard Price $4,850.00

Program Overview

This management and leadership development program is designed to improve your skills and increase your knowledge, preparing you to tackle complex challenges, comprehend cost analysis, drive change, and effectively manage health care departments and divisions. With a strong focus on interactive learning, case studies and small group discussions, the format of this program ensures you will leave ready to maximize your strengths, build and engage strong teams, and position yourself for both short- and long-term success. In particular, you will:

  • Build a network of health care professionals from prominent organizations from across the globe 
  • Understand and develop your personal leadership style 
  • Improve your strategy, finance, and policy skills 
  • Build and sustain high functioning teams 
  • Sharpen your problem solving and change management skills 
  • Engage in negotiation, conflict management and leading outside of your area of responsibility 

Upcoming Program Details

  • Identify leadership styles, strategies and approaches to improve personal navigation of challenges and opportunities
  • Understand design thinking and how it can be used as a process for stimulating innovation in your organization
  • Use interest-based negotiation, multidimensional problem solving, meta-leadership, and other effective techniques to build collaboration and manage conflicts across complex health care systems
  • Gain a firm grasp of appropriate financial management for your department or organization
  • Understand and leverage your skills to transform and lead groups into productive, high-performing teams
  • Develop the crucial qualities, actions, and approaches necessary to be a successful leader
  • Improve capacity to manage change in your organization
  • Develop a leadership toolkit that can be implemented immediately on return to your organization

All Times are Eastern Time (ET).

Monday, May 5, 2025
7:30–8:00 am Check-In & Breakfast
8:00–8:30 am IT Orientation
8:30–10:00 am Introduction to the Program
10:00–10:30 am Refreshment Break
10:30 am–12:00 pm Policy Dynamics and Health Reform
12:00–1:00 pm Lunch
1:00–2:30 pm Building Your Career Constellation
2:30–2:45 pm Refreshment Break
2:45–4:45 pm Leading Teams
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
8:00–8:45 am Breakfast / Discussion Groups
8:45–10:15 am The Management Control Function
10:15–10:45 am Refreshment Break
10:45 am–12:15 pm The Management Control Function (cont'd)
12:15–1:15 pm Lunch
1:15–3:00 pm The Management Control Function (cont'd)
3:00–3:15 pm Refreshment Break
3:15–4:45 pm Patient Experience and Staff Engagement
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
8:00–8:30 am Breakfast / Discussion Groups
8:30–10:30 am Meta-Leadership and the Person of the Meta-Leader
10:30–11:00 am Refreshment Break
11:00 am–12:30 pm Meta-Leadership: The Situation and Connectivity
12:30–1:30 pm Lunch
1:30–3:15 pm The Walk in the Woods: Negotiation, Complex Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution
3:15–3:30 pm Refreshment Break
3:30–4:45 pm Crisis Leadership: Building the Swarm
5:15–5:45 pm Shuttle to Cambridge
5:45–7:15 pm Dinner at The Loeb House
Thursday, May 8, 2025
8:00–8:30 am Breakfast/Networking
8:30–10:00 am Leveraging Your Strengths as a Successful Leader in Health Care
10:00–10:30 am Refreshment Break
10:30 am–12:30 pm Innovation Problem Solving: Breaking Fixedness
12:30–1:30 pm Lunch
1:30–3:00 pm Change Management
3:00–3:15 pm Refreshment Break
3:15–4:45 pm TBD
Friday, May 9, 2025
8:00–8:30 am Breakfast
8:30–10:00 am Everest
10:00–10:30 am Refreshment Break
10:30 am–12:00 pm Everest 2.0: Heading Home
12:00–1:00 pm Lunch
1:00–2:30 pm Getting to the Top: Pearls of Wisdom and Lessons Learned along the Way
2:30–2:45 pm Refreshment Break
2:45–4:15 pm Getting to the Top: Pearls of Wisdom and Lessons Learned along the Way (cont'd)
4:15–4:15 pm Program Close

This agenda is subject to change.

Current faculty, subject to change

Linda A. Cyr

Lecturer on Health Management
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Mary E. Fleming

Director
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Michaela J. Kerrissey

Assistant Professor of Management
Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Leonard J. Marcus

Director
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

John E. McDonough

Director, Center for Executive and Continuing Professional Education
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Anne Occhipinti

Assistant Dean for Professional Education
Office of Education
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Laurie Samuels Pascal

Senior Lecturer on Health Management
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Richard B. Siegrist Jr.

Senior Lecturer on Health Care Management
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Louise Weed

Instructor
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Ellen M. Zane

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

CEO Emeritus, Tufts Medical Center and Tufts Children’s Hospital
Tufts Medical Center

This program is well-suited for executives and emerging leaders in both clinical and nonclinical roles from across the health sector. Ideal participants include:

  • C-Suite and Senior Executives
  • Clinical and Administrative Managers
  • Group Practice Executives
  • Health Systems Executives
  • Hospital Physicians and Administrators
  • Medical Directors
  • Nurse Executives
  • Physician Managers
  • Health Care Program Directors
  • Dyad Partners in Health Care Organizations

Credits & Logistics

All participants will receive a Certificate of Participation upon completion of the program.

This program also contributes to the three-program Executive Leadership in Health Care Certificate of Specialization. Click here for more information

May 2025

Please check back for updated information.

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 31.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will grant 3.1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for this program, equivalent to 31 contact hours of education. Participants can apply these contact hours toward other professional education accrediting organizations.

All credits subject to final agenda.

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