A lack of constructive feedback is detrimental to your team, depriving them of mentorship and growth opportunities. Giving feedback is essential to being an effective leader. In this article, the author offers five ways to overcome your fear of givin...

There’s so much power in understanding what your values are — they can help you make decisions, guide your career, and even live a happier life. But how can you think about your values in an intentional way?

Mike Sacopulos and Brenda Denzler discuss how patients with post-traumatic stress disorder, caused by past medical treatments, choose to call themselves “treatment-traumatized” patients although healthcare professionals may categorize these patients ...

Through an analysis of more than 2,000 venture-backed startups, the authors found that women-led firms whose first round was raised exclusively from female VCs were two times less likely to raise a second round. This is because of an effect known as ...

A trained leadership coach and patient advocate, Jennifer Sweeney is interviewed by host Mike Sacopulos on strategies for healthcare administrators and physicians to have the best outcomes.

Successful leadership requires you to have an understanding of three things: people, process, and performance. Most leaders major in one style and minor in another. The major is what they naturally lead with and deem most valuable, while the minor is...

This article discusses the concept of forgiveness, how to find and give it, and how forgiveness applies to our medical practice.

The most effective leaders understand their own styles and recognize the styles of others. They also know when to flex to another style to get the results they desire for their colleagues, patients, teams, and organizations.

Burnout, marked by emotional exhaustion, a lack of empathy for or negative attitudes toward patients, and feelings of decreased personal achievement, is not a mental health diagnosis, but it is a serious condition that, if unaddressed, can lead to me...

How can we better understand our grief as physicians, and how might we convert anguish to an improved receptivity and sense for opportunity and growth?

While there’s extensive research on the glass ceiling and how to break it, there’s less talk about its close relative, the “concrete wall” — a set of obstacles that keep BIPOC professionals, especially women, from securing high-level positions.

Host Mike Sacopulos interviews Beth (Elizabeth) Garner, MD, MPH, chief scientific officer of Ferring Pharmaceuticals, and president of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA).