The healthcare industry is entering uncharted territory as long-standing assumptions about access, spend management, and care decision-making unravel. In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore the forces driving the diffusion of incumbent organizations’ control over how the industry operates, examine the ripple effects across regional ecosystems, and equip leaders with strategies to navigate uncertainty with clarity and purpose.

Recommended for health system executives, strategy teams, and service line leaders.

Health system finances remained strained in 2025, leading many health systems to approach growth differently. Rather than focusing on patient volumes and topline revenue from historically strong service lines, leaders embraced two shifts in mindset: from growing to get bigger to growing to get stronger, and from focusing on conventional service line strategies to identifying and cultivating a comparative advantage. This interactive workshop highlights several health systems that are pursuing differentiated avenues of growth. Our facilitators will guide your strategy team through our framework to begin identifying potential growth opportunities for your organization.

Please note that this workshop is 3 hours in length.

This session was created and is facilitated in conjunction with Optum Advisory.

Recommended for health system executives and strategy teams.

This interactive workshop supports relationship building and product positioning for key personas within either health systems or health plans (must choose one area of focus). Participants will explore the priorities and decision-making drivers for key leadership roles, build confidence in engaging C-suite executives, and work with peers to identify product-specific talking points.

Recommended for life sciences sales, accounts, and market access teams.

Work with your peers to elevate the most pressing challenges in bedside nurse retention and participate in a solution-oriented debate regarding lack of interest in working at the bedside. During this session, we’ll evaluate options for ensuring that nursing roles can meet the needs of the organization while also meeting the needs of the nurses themselves — and in doing so, make the bedside a better place to build a career. This topic is eligible for continuing education (CE) contact hours for registered nurses.

Recommended for nurse leaders and HR partners.

Healthcare is increasingly volatile, uncertain, and ambiguous — and relationships between stakeholders are becoming ever more complex. This session will define leadership in this moment and identify four shifts required of leaders in confronting and thriving in that reality, based on our work with thousands of healthcare leaders. We’ll provide opportunities for small group discussion and share examples of how leaders across healthcare have responded to these shifts in their work.

This is a workshop-length (90 minutes) version of our “Mind the gap: Building enterprise leadership capacity to thrive in complexity” interactive presentation. It includes small group discussion and activities.

This session is eligible for continuing education (CE) contact hours for registered nurses.

Recommended for all leader and manager audiences.

This workshop focuses on enhancing leadership effectiveness through improved communication and influence strategies. It emphasizes the importance of leveraging both formal authority and personal credibility to influence various stakeholders within an organization. It also highlights the need for leaders to use a combination of power and motivation to achieve desired outcomes and maintain relationships.

This session is eligible for continuing education (CE) contact hours for registered nurses.

Recommended for all leader and manager audiences.

In every organization, there are too many essential things that aren’t getting done, and far too many stalled initiatives. This workshop focuses on holding your team and yourself accountable for achieving the best possible outcomes even under difficult and changing circumstances. We’ll focus on overcoming three elemental barriers to results and explore how leaders ensure that team members are equipped to — and believe they can — overcome them.

This session is eligible for continuing education (CE) contact hours for registered nurses.

Recommended for all leader and manager audiences.

The best leaders consistently create work environments that inspire, foster high performance, and ensure organizational success — but they do it sustainably. This workshop will explore how leaders can observe and respond to their own work stressors in ways that bolster organizational performance and culture.

This session is eligible for continuing education (CE) contact hours for registered nurses.

Recommended for all leader and manager audiences, especially clinical leaders and managers.