The action-packed course with world-class faculty will profile powerful leadership mindsets/methods, as well as the Leadership System of 2020 Malcolm Baldrige winner, Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC). Gain command of three leadership methods you can use every day:

I. Choice: the Most Powerful Model in the World. Stimulus does not always have to lead to a “Standard” Response when we get more conscious about our choices.

II. Effective Questions: Learn how to empower and lead through systematic use of Effective Questions; Leaders help people invent and discover their own best answers (their own changes) to the challenging opportunities and problems they encounter in work and in life. Effective Questions generate net forward energy for you, your teams, your organization and your partners. Learn the powerful Effective Question that you can use every day when difficult and unexpected challenges arise in your work.

III. Net Forward Energy: Managing your own mindset and that of others to create positive action in teams & in organizations. Learn to create “net forward energy” and to engage and flip negative energy.

Participants in this first-of-its-kind training event will have an opportunity to join an emerging online All Teach, All Learn community of leadership practice and will get straightforward, practical easy to use tools that will help:

• Achieve more results with less effort

• Bring more fun and “upward-spiraling” positive energy into your work environment

• Make it easier to lead change in your own work and that of your colleagues

The methods profiled in this event have been used to lead change and to generate both national and organizational results in federal agencies, hospitals, organ procurement organizations, clinical practices, nursing homes and other organizations. These methods can be used in business, health care, education, and nonprofit organizations.

Join with us – you’ll be glad you did!

Our Speakers

Dennis Wagner, is a national and international leader in healthcare quality improvement, social marketing, organ donation and transplantation, and the environment.  He is the Former Director of the iQuality Improvement and Innovation Group in the CMS Center for Clinical Standards and Quality.  While at CMS, Dennis and his team supported healthcare providers who are using systematic quality improvement to make care better in tens of thousands of hospitals, nursing homes, clinical practices and communities across the nation.  Teams led by Dennis have effectively worked to spread the best practices of highest performers, so that “best practices become common practice."  Dennis and two CMS colleagues were recognized with the prestigious SAMMIE Award -- the Oscars of Federal Service -- as Federal Employees of the Year in 2016 for their leadership, work and unprecedented national results in hospital patient safety. 

John B. Chessare, MD, MPH, is the President and CEO of GBMC HealthCare, in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Chessare has been actively involved in designing and managing systems of care in academic medical centers and in community hospitals. A pediatrician, he is a graduate of Boston College, the University of Rome School of Medicine, and the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He completed his Pediatrics residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and his fellowship in Academic General Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Chessare is recognized nationally for his work in utilizing operations management to improve patient flow and drive out waste in the acute care hospital, and for designing safer and more reliable medication delivery systems. His present work is in transforming his organization to be better able to deliver higher value by creating better health, better care and lower cost with more joy for those providing the care. In November of 2020, under Dr. Chessare’ s leadership, the GBMC HealthCare System achieved the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the highest level of recognition for performance excellence in the United States.  

John Scanlon, PhD is an Executive Architect and Strategic Consultant who has helped many private and public sector leaders to both learn and grow, and to achieve extraordinary results as a key element of their growth. Leaders supported by Dr. Scanlon have developed a national micro lending bank in Haiti (Fonkoze) that have transformed the lives of tens of thousands of low income women and their families; others have increased national organ donation and transplantation in the US, saving tens of thousands of lives, and more. What separates John's work from traditional leadership and executive coaching is his active involvement and teaming with supported leaders in taking risks and performing the day-to-day work of achieving extraordinary results.

Brian Hebbel is federal procurement expert, consultant, author and trainer. Through his 36 years of Government contracting expertise, he has provided expert advice and guidance to Government officials and contractors alike.  He is an author of “How to Market & Sell to the U.S. Government, A View from the Inside” and the visionary of new and creative conferences, training seminars and new activities to push the limits of training. 

He is the President of BARC Business Advisors LLC, to Bring Acquisition Results to Contractors (BARC). He also holds a Masters Degree from the National Defense University: Industrial College of the Armed Forces - National Security Strategy: 1999.

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