Cultivating Career Growth and Relationships With Intention: Leadership Lessons From Mid-Career Executives

In a healthcare landscape that often prioritizes metrics and margins, how can leaders remain values-driven while advancing their careers? This session brings together four mid-career senior healthcare executives committed to intentional, values-centered leadership. Drawing from their participation in structured executive leadership programs and their real-world experiences, they will share strategies for career management, relationship cultivation, and staying centered in their personal leadership values.

Panelists will offer practical guidance on advancing your healthcare career, building strong professional relationships and staying true to your core values on the path to executive leadership. They will reflect several key leadership areas, including:

• Strategic relationship management: Building, maintaining and leveraging professional networks that are values-aligned and opportunity-rich


• Executive presence: Communicating with clarity, confidence and authenticity in high-stakes environments without losing purpose


• Emotional intelligence and resilience: Leading through uncertainty, feedback and change with self-awareness and poise


• Inclusive decision-making: Integrating principles of equity, belonging and inclusion into operations, talent development and strategic planning while never losing sight of sustainable bottom lines


• Career agility: Identifying and seizing opportunities for growth while navigating barriers unique to underrepresented leaders