I’m a practicing emergency physician and executive coach at Mayo Clinic. As program director of leadership development for the Mayo Clinic Care Network, I coach senior leaders, facilitate retreats, and deliver programs that train leaders at healthcare organizations worldwide. I am also the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller You’re the Leader. Now What?
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I am an emergency physician at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. I provide executive coaching and deliver leadership programs at Mayo Clinic and for the national and international members of the Mayo Clinic Care Network. I serve as chair of finance for the department of emergency medicine and on the department executive committee, strategy committee, personnel committee, and enterprise specialty council.
Prior to my work at Mayo Clinic, I served as managing partner of a democratic physician group, chair of emergency medicine, president of an 800-physician medical staff, and CEO/founder of a managed care startup.
In 1994, I graduated from the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine. I am board certified and residency trained in Emergency Medicine from the University of California, San Francisco at Fresno. I graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas Executive and Professional Coaching Program and am a professional certified coach through the International Coaching Federation. I completed a Healthcare Management Executive MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center. I obtained a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
I live in Rochester, Minnesota with my family.
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