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About the Program

June 3 – 6, 2025

This leadership development program focused on women enhances your skills to lead complex healthcare organizations, bridging gaps in your understanding and strategies, and preparing you for career advancement.

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

Program Fees

  • Standard Price $4,900.00

Program Overview

Participants will leave this program better prepared to leverage the critical business knowledge gained to lead strategically and manage complex health care challenges. With a focus on building effective cross-functional relationships, this program provides the mindset, tools, and skills to navigate change with agility. Through group discussions and hands-on exercises, you will learn from your fellow participants’ experiences, as well as from leading Harvard faculty, as you exchange valuable insights and best practices.

As a participant, you will develop the leadership skills needed to manage health care organizations efficiently and effectively by exploring topics that include:

  • Applying effective leadership styles
  • Building and leading teams
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Influencing with and without authority
  • Managing and sustaining change
  • Negotiation and conflict resolution
  • Organizational politics
  • Performance improvement strategies
  • Strategic planning

Upcoming Program Details

This program is designed to engage women leaders who are advancing into a management role and looking to drive excellence. Our curriculum focuses on strengthening those new leaders’ knowledge, skills, and capabilities necessary to effectively lead complex health care and health-related organizations. Participants in this program will:

  • Develop a deeper awareness of personal leadership and management styles to yield more effective communication, better manage conflict, and engage in challenging, yet productive, conversations
  • Enhance your capability to lead sustainable change
  • Learn to maximize your networks through productive alliances and partnerships
  • Understand individual motivation, team dynamics, and how to lead teams effectively
  • Acquire the knowledge and mindset to create a meaningful strategy that guides successful implementation

All Times are Eastern Time (ET).

Tuesday, June 3, 2025
8:00–8:30 am Check-In and Continental Breakfast
8:30–8:45 am Technology Orientation
8:45–9:30 am Getting Started
9:30–10:30 am Leading Without Authority
10:30–11:00 am Refreshment Break
11:00 am–12:30 pm Leader, Creator, Disrupter
12:30–1:30 pm Lunch
1:30–3:30 pm StrengthsFinder
3:30–3:45 pm Refreshment Break
3:45–4:00 pm Wrap Up
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
8:00–9:00 am Continental Breakfast
9:00–10:30 am Creating, Maintaining & Maximizing Healthy Teams- Part 1
10:30–11:00 am Refreshment Break
11:00 am–12:30 pm Creating, Maintaining & Maximizing Healthy Teams- Part 2
12:30–1:30 pm Lunch
1:30–3:00 pm Navigating the Waters of Conflict & Negotiation- Part 1
3:00–3:30 pm Refreshment Break
3:30–5:00 pm Navigating the Waters of Conflict & Negotiation- Part 2
5:00–6:00 pm Reception at Harvard T.H. Chan
Thursday, June 5, 2025
8:00–9:00 am Continental Breakfast
9:00–10:30 am Through the Looking Glass
10:30–11:00 am Refreshment Break
11:00 am–12:30 pm Navigating Change
12:30–1:30 pm Lunch
1:30–3:30 pm Innovative Problem Solving- Breaking Fixedness
3:30–4:00 pm Refreshment Break
4:00–5:00 pm Exploring Your Networks
Friday, June 6, 2025
8:00–8:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:30–10:30 am Equity in Health Care
10:30–11:00 am Refreshment Break
11:00 am–12:30 pm Strategy: JHU Case
12:30–1:30 pm Lunch
1:30–3:30 pm Turning Intention into Action
3:30–3:30 pm Program Adjournment

This agenda is subject to change.

This program is designed for any level of emerging executive who has been recently promoted, has significantly increased scope, or who never received the onboarding necessary to take on a next level role within hospitals, health systems, physician practices, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, ministries of health, health care foundations, and other health care-related organizations around the world. It has also been designed to elevate those who are committed to investing in their own leadership development, and to promoting the advancement of women into senior and executive roles including:

  • Vice Presidents, Assistant Vice Presidents, department directors, and other executives reporting to the C-suite or Senior Vice President level
  • Medical Directors, Clinical Chiefs of Service, Pharmacy or Lab Managers, and other senior managers who have decisionmaking responsibility for planning, allocating resources, managing staff, and developing policy
  • Leaders in compliance, quality, employee and patient experience, human resources, communications, marketing, operations, or other administrative functions

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.

June 2025

Hilton Garden Inn Boston Brookline
700 Brookline Avenue
Brookline, MA 02446
TEL: 617-935-0077 FAX:
$309/night + 11.70% tax

The hotel is approximately 1 mile from the program location and they also provide a shuttle bus to the Longwood Medical Area.

A limited number of rooms have been reserved at a reduced rate until May 2, 2025. These rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please be advised that hotels in the Boston area can sell out very quickly. We recommend making your hotel reservation as soon as you receive registration and payment confirmation. Please mention group code EWE and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to receive the special rate.

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 15 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 1.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for this program, equivalent to 15 contact hours of education. Participants can apply these contact hours toward other professional education accrediting organizations.

All credits subject to final agenda.

Advance Your Career at Harvard with Emerging Women Executives in Health Care