Regional Health Senior Leadership Program

About the Program

After extensive consultation with the Ontario East healthcare community, the program has been renewed to address current leadership needs and is now being hosted by Telfer Executive Programs.

The last several years have put a strain on our healthcare system and on our healthcare leaders. The needs of leaders have changed, and they must be agile, create a sense of belonging, and continue to deliver excellent care under a strained and shifting system. This transformation will require a new era of compassionate and inclusive leaders that are self-aware and create a culture of trust. These leaders will require advanced skills to collaborate, create and achieve.  ​

This 8-day program will strengthen and refine these skills to help healthcare leaders continue to respond and effectively lead in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) emerging future. Participants will come together for an orientation session that will transition to three 2-day modules each focused on different leadership themes delivered through small peer group activities, immersive and experiential leadership workshops, and guest speaker panels. This in-person program will also include leadership assessments, site visits and a leadership symposium that brings additional experts from all levels of government and healthcare organizations into the conversation to inspire larger-scale change across the region.

The RHSLP brings medical, clinical and administrative healthcare leaders together to address the challenges of health care leadership across the complex and dynamic Eastern Ontario healthcare system. ​

The program is designed with a focus on:​

• increasing healthcare leadership capacity and resources​
• enhancing the quality of collaboration within and across institutions in the system​
• supporting the achievement of the ‘quintuple aim’ framework​
• Content that is relevant, applied, and practical learning​
• providing a cost-effective, scalable, sustainable, and LEADS/CHE-aligned program
• multi-disciplinary leadership (physicians, nurses, other allied-health professionals, non-clinical managers, researchers, etc.)​​

More information can be found in our information package.

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Who Should Attend?

• Senior leaders (e.g. senior managers, directors, heads of divisions or departments, site leaders, senior administrators)​​
• Regional healthcare providers (Hospitals, OHT partners, primary care, community care, long-term care, etc.)
• Leaders from private organizations within the health sector 

What You Will Learn

• How your leadership style and preferences can work to support as well as hinder your ability to address the challenges facing the healthcare system
• ​Greater skill and confidence as an authentic and collaborative leader, especially in the context of rapidly changing internal workplace dynamics and resource pressures
• Strategies for building trust and greater team alignment
• How to design and lead focused change initiatives for quality and patient experience
• ​​How to clearly communicate strategic directions, align them with corporate goals, and foster staff and stakeholder buy-in

Program Takeaways

• A more strategic understanding of the key dynamics affecting health care in Ontario and especially in the context of our region​
• How to leverage team diversity particularly in terms of different leadership styles, preferences and approaches​
• Greater self-awareness and clarity about areas for ongoing leadership development
• Frameworks for planning, and leading change​ initiatives for greater buy-in and commitment
• A new network of supportive and collaborative colleagues across the regional healthcare landscape​

Program Facilitators

Ingrid Richter, Ph.D.

Executive in Residence

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Ingrid Richter, Ph.D.

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Executive in Residence

Ingrid Richter is an Executive in Residence at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa and Partner, Threshold Associates.  Her teaching, action research and consulting work has three major areas of focus:  leadership development, facilitating complex, multi-stakeholder change processes and developing change agents so that they can more effectively engage in high impact, complex change.  Her recent client work focuses on leadership and international capacity development supporting sustainability of social innovation initiatives. She has in-depth experience in provincial and federal governments, including as a Senior Fellow at the Canada School of Public Service as well as senior roles in corrections, policing and public safety.  Ingrid was the co-founder of the Canadian Organization Development Institute and designs and delivers leadership programs for the UN Staff College and the UNHCR.  In her spare time she is an active volunteer at Synapcity, (an Ottawa non-profit focused on developing citizen engagement), loves travel, poetry, cooking and learning to play the ukulele.

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Theresa Humphrys

Facilitator

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Theresa Humphrys

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Facilitator

Theresa Humphrys is the owner and founder of Bold Oak Coaching and Consulting. She is a certified coach, educator and facilitator with a depth of experience as a change leader in healthcare, public and private sectors. Having worked extensively with healthcare organizations across the region, Theresa understands the joys and challenges of inspiring teams, effecting change, navigating workplace politics and making a meaningful difference from within an organization. 

Theresa has a Masters in Human Systems Intervention from Concordia University, Lean Green Belt Certification, and is a certified Integral Coach. She is an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation, and certified Tilt365 Master Agility Practitioner. 

Her coaching and facilitation style balances the practical with the inspirational. She has made her career – and her reputation – in guiding, developing and supporting leaders and teams to live their values and achieve their potential. 

In her spare time, Theresa runs, knits and plays the guitar (though not all at the same time). She is based in Ottawa. 

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