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Leading toward Innovation and Transformation
Leadership Strategies Required to Triumph over Healthcare’s Most Formidable Challenges
Resilience. Agility. Integrity. Communication. Loyalty. Decisiveness. Humility. Experts have relied on these terms to describe the essence of leadership. Now, leadership traits also include authenticity, open-mindedness, cultural fit and the power of influence. CEOs must develop the leadership traits and style that will ensure success in value-based care, digital transformation, population health and consumerism.
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Join us as a panel of celebrated CEOs discuss the leadership traits that sustained their career success and how they envision the future of healthcare leadership.
The issues we’ll cover in this panel discussion include:
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Why is C-Suite integrity more important than ever?
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What brand of leadership is required to succeed in an environment dominated by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity?
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How do CEOs create a compelling vision and engage stakeholders around it?
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Where can CEOs perfect advanced thinking skills to cope with healthcare’s many challenges?
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How can organizations develop C-Suite bench strength and implement effective succession planning initiatives
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How will the healthcare CEO of the future vary from the healthcare CEO of today?
Moderator:
Nancy Howell Agee
President and Chief Executive Officer
Carilion Clinic
Nancy Howell Agee has transformed Carilion Health System and Carilion Clinic. As COO, she moved the organization from a hospital network to a system of specialty clinics. By 2011, she emerged as President and CEO of Carilion Clinic, where she has expanded services and collaborated with Virginia Tech through its medical school and research institute. Nancy has been elected to lead the American Hospital Association’s board of trustees after multiple years of service on the AHA’s Health Care System’s Governing Council and Regional Policy Board. In her new role, Nancy will be advocating for hospitals before Congress and articulating issues identified within AHA’s nine regions.
Panelist:
J. Stephen Jones, MD,
President and Chief Executive Officer
Inova
J. Stephen Jones is president and chief executive officer of Inova, the Washington, DC, region’s leading not-for-profit healthcare system that serves more than 2 million people annually in its five hospitals and multiple ambulatory programs. He is also professor of urology at the University of Virginia, which is working with Inova to bring undergraduate medical education and research to Fairfax. Dr. Jones previously served as president of Cleveland Clinic Regional Hospitals and Family Health Centers, leading 11 hospitals and more than 20 large ambulatory centers.