Healthcare Plus Solutions Group

02/22/2026

What is Precision Leadership Development anyway?
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02/20/2026

Is emergency department burnout really a leadership design issue?
This week’s article and podcast dig into why system and leadership redesign—not more resilience training—is the path forward.

Emergency departments are under a level of strain unlike anything leaders have faced before. Clinical complexity is rising. Teams are younger and less experienced. Leaders are often promoted without preparation. And systems built for a different era are now being stretched beyond their limits. In a....

02/19/2026

Healthcare has more new leaders than ever before, many younger, many without formal leadership backgrounds. The question is: are we truly preparing them? In this new blog, Dan Collard shares practical ways to reduce anxiety, build trust, and create “rising stars” before they even step into formal leadership roles. Because great leaders don’t just spot talent, they develop it.

In healthcare, our new reality is that we have so many new leaders—either new to the role they’re in or new to leadership itself. Many of them tend to be younger, and even more bring a lack of leadership background and experience. How we prepare them to do this important work really matters.

02/19/2026

Regina shares the 4 letter word you don't always hear in healthcare leadership in this episode of the Healthcare Plus Podcast.

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02/18/2026

Rewiring isn’t about replacing what worked.
It’s about giving leaders permission to change how they grow.
That belief is baked into the Rewiring Healthcare: Foundation to Future conference—and explained in this week’s podcast episode.

Dan Collard sits down with Quint Studer to launch a new short series previewing the upcoming conference, Rewiring Healthcare: Foundation to Future (April 28–29, Atlanta), and to explore why healthcare must rethink how leaders are developed in today’s environment.

02/17/2026

Leaders are always sending a message, whether they mean to or not. This week’s column reminds us that how we show up in everyday moments says far more about our values than anything we could ever say.

Values are caught as well as taught. What a leader does is more often more impactful than what is said.

02/13/2026

Leadership can feel personal — especially in healthcare, where the stakes are high and the pace never slows down.

In a recent Healthcare Plus Podcast episode, Dan Collard talked with former hospital CEO Tom McDougal about his new book, Karma Doesn’t Need My Help, and a simple idea leaders can use right away:

Event + Response = Outcome.

You can’t control everything that happens — but you can control how you respond.

This article highlights practical lessons from the conversation, including how to manage emotions under pressure, let go of negativity, and lead with more clarity and steadiness.

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Healthcare leadership can be a high-wire act: visible, relentless, and stressful in a way that often feels personal. In a new episode of the Healthcare Plus Podcast, Dan Collard sits down with former hospital CEO Tom McDougal to discuss why Tom’s book, Karma Doesn’t Need My Help matters now: it ...

02/12/2026

“In healthcare, love isn’t a sentiment. It’s a leadership strategy that changes everything.” In her new blog, Kay Kennedy shares how human-centered leaders speak the language of care—and why it matters now more than ever.

Valentine’s Day is almost here. (How can this year possibly be going by so quickly?!) As I was thinking about this column, it occurred to me that Valentine’s Day is a good reminder of something we don’t talk about in the workplace often enough: the longing people have to feel seen, understood,...

02/11/2026

What emergency departments need right now:
steadier leadership, better-designed systems, and cultures that support the people doing the work.
New Healthcare Plus Podcast episode with Regina Shupe breaks down what actually helps teams succeed under pressure.

In this episode of the Healthcare Plus Podcast, host Dan Collard sits down with Regina Shupe, a veteran emergency department nurse leader and author of Rewiring the Emergency Department: Innovative Solutions for Modern Emergency Medicine, to explore what emergency care needs now: steadier leadership...

02/11/2026

When someone hires you, they’re putting their reputation—and sometimes their own job—on the line. The best way to honor that trust is to prove them right. In this week's column, Quint Studer shares insights inspired by national sports executive Greg Hughes, whose success stems from embracing the “prove them right” mindset.

“Prove them right.” This was how Greg Hughes, Executive Vice President, Communications, NBC Sports responded when I asked him about his career success. Greg is currently immersed in Olympic and Super Bowl coverage and the NBA season and is ready for MLB Sunday night baseball. During dinner with ...

02/06/2026

AI has moved from buzzword to operations.
At ACHE Congress 2026, leaders will dig into what actually works—from workflow to safety to patient experience.

Read more about it here and catch up on the podcast!

Healthcare leaders need a path forward, and they need it now. Workforce churn, AI acceleration, payer pressure, policy shifts and other factors are converging in ways that make “wait and see” a liability. That’s why showing up in Houston this March matters. ACHE Congress 2026 (March 2–4, in ...

02/05/2026

Healthcare doesn’t lack good ideas.
It lacks doable ones.
In this blog, the case is made for grounding leadership, training, and innovation in two simple questions:
• Is it doable in the real conditions of healthcare today?
• Does it make sense to the people expected to carry it out?
If the answer to either is no, the idea won’t stick—no matter how evidence-based it is.

As we wrap up 2025, the question on everyone’s mind is: What can we expect in the year ahead? What skills should we build? What actions should we take? What trends should we watch? Technology and AI will no doubt stay front and center. But if you’re serious about self- development, I believe you...