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,...
Curious Physician Leaders Find Creative Solutions to Healthcare Challenges
As you review your strengths as a leader in the healthcare arena, where does curiosity fall on your list? That’s right, curiosity. A recent Forbes article talks about how companies are actively seeking ways to recruit leaders who “explore new experiences and discover novel possibilities.”
How Healthcare Leaders Can Build Resiliency Within Their Organizations
Resilience is the ability to persevere through stress. Many articles focus on personal resilience strategies and self-care is certainly important to healthcare leaders. But where real change happens is within healthcare organizations. Organizational resiliency is...
How to Market Yourself: The Essential Art of Self-Promotion
In general, women leaders tend to navigate toward working hard, consensus building, and being a part of the team as opposed to promoting themselves within their organization to obtain social capital and gain advancement. This is one reason there are fewer women in key...
Mentoring: Making Sure It Happens In Healthcare
For most healthcare leaders, the pandemic required focusing only on the challenges at hand and many programs considered non-essential were paused. The California Association of Healthcare Leaders recognizes the ongoing need to develop our leaders and continues to...
Use Authentic Leadership to Energize Committees and Teams
When team members are drained, how can you as a physician leader muster up the enthusiasm for them to keep going? The opening scene from The Gladiator comes to mind. Russel Crowe’s character charges on his horse up and down the line of Roman soldiers firing them up...
Boost Your Energy Reserves To Lead With Resiliency
Early in the pandemic, one of my clients asked, “How can I be effective in my role and not deplete my energy”? As Division Chief at an academic medical system, a broad scope of people depended on her. Each person has different pandemic-related stressors. Leaders at...
“My mission is to help women healthcare leaders reach their highest potential.”
- Deborah Munhoz
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