Professional Agility and Adaptability in Today’s Healthcare Leaders

In this highly engaging session, physicians and healthcare executives from varied leadership backgrounds will convey strategy and lessons learned from agility, adaptability and pivoting while leading in healthcare organizations amid evolving times. We will share actionable strategies that are applicable to a group of diverse stakeholders and empower them with new insights and tools to use immediately to build agility skills. In today's dynamic healthcare landscape, it is critical to balance vulnerability as a leader with professional agility and adaptability to build trust and belonging in healthcare teams. The speakers will introduce and explore the concept of adaptability quotient (AQ) and identify actionable strategies of when to focus on AQ, IQ and/or EQ.

As leaders, it is important to collaborate, network and informally brainstorm with other leaders willing to share resources and ideas to build agility and adaptability to meet the changing goalposts, tech integrations and social inequities of healthcare. You will gain practical strategies for:

• Leveraging vulnerability and shared experiences to build trust


• Identifying when to stop projects or initiatives that no longer add value and offload projects


• Finding points of control within different circles of influence


• Cultivating adaptable environments that manage the tension between stability and agility


• Applying lean and startup mindsets within complex healthcare organizations


• Letting go of unrealistic comparisons to other industries (e.g., Disney, FAA) and reframing expectations for healthcare performance


• Empowering teams through mentorship, resource sharing and EQ-driven leadership

The session will be structured around a moderated conversation, featuring case-based examples and “lessons learned” moments. Panelists will dive into crucial conversations around reducing unnecessary initiatives, innovative ideas of how a well-equipped leader can more effectively support their team in being agile by taking time to invest in team members, real-world examples of when agile leadership made a measurable difference, how successful leaders invest in their teams to foster adaptability amid competing demands, and who has modeled AQ well—and how others can replicate those strategies.