As healthcare organizations continue to wrestle with the human resources (HR) crisis, there is increasing awareness that leadership development can increase retention and performance, as well as enabling leaders to advance strategic priorities. As a result, more and more organizations across sectors are realizing the benefits of investing not just in individual leaders, but in leadership integration organization-wide.
Despite the widespread recognition of the importance of distributing leadership and integrating it into the organizational culture, the first priority in convincing decision-makers to commit is answering the question: “why now?”. This crucial foundation addresses the first step in Kotter’s change leadership model: the burning platform.
The Certified Health Executive (CHE) Program is pleased to present an interactive exclusive webinar for CCHL Strategic Alliance partners, led by the CCHL’s Dr. Jaason Geerts, Vice-President of Research and Leadership Development, entitled, “The Burning Platform: Why Organizations Are Investing in Leadership Integration Now”.
During the session, Dr. Geerts will begin by engaging the audience with an overview of the current context of healthcare leadership, including based on perspectives shared by participants beforehand through an online survey. The session will then cover the potential benefits of leadership integration system-wide and evidence-based and leading-practice strategies for further integration based on the most recent findings from the College’s national and international research initiatives.
The session will conclude with encouraging participants to identify and commit to next steps that they can apply in their workplaces.
This webinar is the sixth in a series of biannual engagements exclusive to members, staff, and students of CCHL’s Strategic Alliance partners.
Featured Speaker:
Dr. Jaason Geerts, BA, BEd, MTS, MPhil, PhD (Cambridge) –Vice-President, Research and Leadership Development, Canadian College of Health Leaders; Honorary Visiting Fellow, The Bayes Business School, University of London (UK)
Dr. Jaason Geerts is the Vice-President of Research and Leadership Development at the Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL) and a former Honorary Visiting Fellow at The Bayes Business School, University of London in the UK.
Jaason completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge on leadership for professionals after a teaching degree and two Master’s from the University of Toronto and Cambridge respectively.
In addition to a recent TEDx Talk and having contributed to a recently published business book, Credible: the power of expert leaders, his work has been featured in international peer-reviewed journals, the Globe and Mail, CBC national news, CTV news, and local radio, as well as globally through the International Hospital Federation and British Medical Journal journals.
The model of leadership in a crisis that Jaason created is the theoretical foundation for a recent successful CIHR research grant valued at $450,000 and he participated as an invited international expert advisor for a World Health Organization symposium on health system recovery.
Jaason is also a program director and instructor at the Telfer School of Management (University of Ottawa) and the Schulich School of Business (York University, Toronto).
Jaason is also a qualified teacher and was nominated for the Toronto Star’s Teacher of the Year.
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