Leadership in the Age of Personalization Docuseries

LAOP 2021 · No. 29

Leading a Multi-Generational Workforce

Ninfa Saunders

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It's not really what you are communicating to people. It's never really about the information. It is the translation that gets you to an aligned position.

Ninfa Saunders

About this episode

Ninfa Saunders spent 25 years in healthcare's C-suite after starting as a bedside nurse, most recently as CEO of Navicent Health in Georgia. She compares building culture to pinning Jell-O to a wall: it never sticks unless you keep working at it. With five generations in the workforce, she says legacy leaders like her expect to announce a plan and see it done, but what matters is translation. Her starting point for any culture change is honest self-assessment.

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