Leadership in the Age of Personalization Docuseries

HAOP 2023 · No. 09

Healthcare Leadership Under 40 Roundtable

Trevor Brand; John Baldwin; Vaughn Williams; Sam Boadi

Trevor Brand: COO, City of Hope Atlanta; John Baldwin: COO, TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center, HCA Healthcare; Vaughn Williams: Associate Administrator, Valley Health System; Sam Boadi: COO, HCA Florida Lake City Hospital (at the time of recording)

From the recording

Standardization can make you professionally tight, and it can almost make you robotic.

Sam Boadi

About this episode

Four Black healthcare executives, all under 35 when we spoke, talked about how their generation is seen and how they want to lead. Trevor Brand calls millennials the passionate generation. John Baldwin argued that authenticity is the currency of the future and that psychological safety has to make room for failure. Sam Boadi warned that standardization can make leaders robotic, and Vaughn Williams described the small personal questions that bring people's full selves to work.

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