Turn Obstacles Into Leadership Opportunities
Women in healthcare face unique leadership challenges. While these barriers can seem formidable, they offer invaluable opportunities for innovation and growth. Recently, I worked with a group of women physicians to help them reframe barriers that were limiting their...
How can women balance family responsibilities and career aspirations?
Juggling work and personal obligations is a delicate dance that many women navigate daily. The constant tug-of-war between career aspirations and family responsibilities can leave us feeling stretched thin and overwhelmed. Societal expectations around caregiving and...
Myths vs. Truths
Myths that inhibit the value of women as leaders Women in healthcare routinely ask me, “What will happen if I show up as myself?” They don’t want to be seen as too outspoken, too quiet, too (fill in the blank), out of fear of being passed over for interesting...
Leading Productive Meetings: A Pathway to Influence for Women in Healthcare
Meetings are more than just obligations that fill our calendars. They are opportunities to demonstrate leadership abilities and drive meaningful progress. For women in healthcare, in particular, maximizing this opportunity gives you a chance to demonstrate effective...
Why shifting our perspective on power in the workplace is essential to improving healthcare.
Women leaders reached an historic milestone in 2023 when 10 percent of the CEOs at Fortune 500 companies were women, according to an article in Forbes. This represents a significant shift from prior years when only one or two women were on the list.the leadership...
Nurturing a positive mindset through self-care
As a woman in healthcare leadership, I understand the unique mindset challenges we face on our professional journey. From self-doubt and imposter syndrome to a lack of belonging, these barriers can hold us back from reaching our full potential. By prioritizing...
Empowering Women, Transforming Healthcare
For more than a year I have spoken at length with women physicians, leaders at healthcare organizations, and members of professional healthcare groups about barriers holding women back in their careers. Through my research, I identified four main barriers that can...
Advancing Women in Healthcare: Breaking Barriers, Building Futures.
In this blog post, we will explore the barriers that women face in healthcare leadership and discuss strategies to overcome them. Through extensive research and conversations with women physicians, leaders, and healthcare professionals, four main barriers have been...
When women lead in healthcare, everyone wins
Healthcare is an rapidly evolving industry that reflects a growing emphasis on patient-centered care, value-based care, technology, and prevention. The pandemic revealed multiple inequities in how health care is delivered, and within the ranks of healthcare providers....
Women: Take Mentorship Into Your Own Hands
For the past year, to enhance my coaching practice, I have been conducting research about what barriers women physicians face. The data reflects four main areas that were the most common themes for women leaders in the healthcare industry: Mindset – This barrier shows...
Setting Boundaries Can Change the Status Quo
In 1967, a tobacco ad targeted women with the tagline, “You’ve come a long way, baby.” At the time, there were no women listed as CEOs of a Fortune 500 company. Five years later Katherine Graham became CEO of the Washington Post, finally breaking the barrier. In the...
Fix imposter syndrome in your workplace by shifting the conversation to “why does my employee feel this way?”
Baby Boomer women began entering the workforce in droves starting in the early 1960s. A few years later in 1978, psychologists Pauline Rose Clance and Suzanne Imes coined the phrase Imposter Syndrome to describe feelings of self-doubt many leaders experience,...
“My mission is to help women healthcare leaders reach their highest potential.”
- Deborah Munhoz
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