Foundations in Healthcare Leadership
Leadership cannot be taught in a few days. Lasting success is dependent upon creating new skills, cultivating them through application, and strengthening them through longitudinal coaching and feedback.
Course Overview
Foundations in Healthcare Leadership (FHL) is a rigorous development program for individuals looking to build a leadership career in healthcare. FHL blends practical in-person training, application to real world challenges, and longitudinal executive coaching with a tailored development and feedback program in the workplace to accelerate success.
Participants will learn practical leadership concepts over three full day in-person sessions and immediately apply them to individualized leadership challenges. A final additional half-day of the in-person program will be dedicated to the creation of a detailed, professional development and feedback roadmap that will outline key milestones and a rigorous plan for attaining them. Twelve monthly longitudinal coaching sessions with course faculty and a personalized feedback program, built and shared with a select group of colleagues, will ensure success in meeting the developmental goals.
Course Topics
- Leadership Defined
- Leadership vs. Management: Choosing the Correct Tool for the Situation
- Change Management
- Understanding and Developing your Personal Leadership Preferences
- Business Drivers & Organizational Priorities
- Motivating and Engaging Teams
- When and How to Use Power and Influence
- Negotiating for What You Need
- Managing Conflict
- Using Feedback to Improve Performance
- Overcoming Resistance
- Running an Effective Meeting
- Delegation & Time Management
- Combating Burnout
- Leadership for Well-being and Performance
Upcoming Dates
Fall Cohort: October 14-17, 2025
Anschutz Medical Campus | Aurora, CO
Registration
Price: $4,999
Includes in-person session and 12 months of longitudinal 1x1 coaching
Fall 2025 Registration
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What participants say about Foundations in Healthcare Leadership
"This was the most remarkable personal and professional educational activity that I have experienced in my entire career...I wish all physicians could receive leadership training like in your course, and I am thankful to have had the privilege to participate in it."
"I learned more in 3.5 days than I did during my whole Master's program."
"Within a year, using the principles taught in FHL, I was so successful in leading change and negotiating for resources that I was able to double the funding supporting my leadership role."
"Applying what I learned in FHL I was able to build, with my coach’s guidance and support, a business case to fund a $500,000 expansion of the clinical program I am leading."
"The course, and especially the coaching has been invaluable to my growth as a leader and has played a significant role in many of the successes I've had in my leadership role."
"I can’t begin to describe how beneficial the knowledge I gained during the didactic portion of the class has been. I truly feel like I use some piece of what I learned in nearly every interaction I have."
Healthcare Leadership taught by Healthcare Leaders
Brad Sharpe, MD, SFHM, FACP
Brad Sharpe, MD, SFHM, FACP, is a Professor of Medicine and hospitalist at the University of California - San Francisco. He has served in multiple leadership roles at UCSF, including as an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency and as the Division Chief of Hospital Medicine.
Darlene Tad-y, MD, MBA, SFHM
Darlene Tad-y, MD, MBA, SFHM, is the Associate Chief Medical Officer of Patient Flow at the University of Colorado Hospital and Medical Director for Capacity at UCHealth. She is also a Professor of Medicine at the CU School of Medicine where she is an academic hospitalist.