Maximizing organizational performance

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Providing opportunities to improve organizational outcomes

Each fellow will complete a Practicum Initiative with the goal of creating tangible organizational outcomes. The practicum is designed to raise fellows’ profiles within the organization while boosting executives’ confidence in fellows’ ability to take on mission-critical roles at the next level of the organization.

Developing key problem solving strategies

Through our case study method, fellows will sharpen their analytical skills and amplify their problem solving strategies. The cases' subject matter will cut across a range of industries, organizations, and situations, helping fellows grapple with the challenges they will encounter in the executive ranks. Armed with new insights, fellows will be able to identify new opportunities to elevate performance at their own organization.

Spurring organizational innovation

Fellows will engage in an ongoing idea exchange with rising health care leaders from around the nation. This interaction will foster a breeding ground for new and innovative ideas, allowing fellows to improve their organization’s performance and tackle its most challenging issues.


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Fellowship Stories

  • Scott MacLean

    Devising a Clinical Information Systems Strategy

    Scott MacLean, Partners Healthcare

    Advisory Board fellow Scott MacLean and his practicum on-site sponsor Patrick Jordan describe how Scott set a clinical information systems strategy that enfranchised all stakeholders from the information systems department to the medical staff.
  • 2008 Award Winner

    Creating a patient-centered culture

    Johan Otter, Scripps Health La Jolla

    Senior leaders from Scripps health describe how Advisory Board fellow Johan Otter increased patient satisfaction by 59 percentile points through his initiative to create a patient-centered culture.

“[The most valuable aspect of the Fellowship was] being well aware of my leadership strengths, stretching to improve and increasing my ability to apply my strengths in affecting organizational improvements.”

—Fellowship graduate, medical center on the West Coast