Accelerating the Healthcare Leader’s Career Pathways: Determining pathways of leadership, and developing and testing a mobile app prototype

These are challenging times for healthcare leaders. Since the pandemic, it has become abundantly clear that healthcare is at a tipping point. With burnout, retirements, and resignations, healthcare leadership positions are now more available than ever. CHLNet and LEADs Change have studied leadership during COVID-19 and have highlighted the demands on leadership and the need for heightened strategic capabilities. Considering the unprecedented challenges to healthcare due to COVID-19 since March 2020 as well as advancement in technology in healthcare, it is imperative that we take a hard look at the realities of leading in a healthcare setting within the post-pandemic era. In this project, we will examine the emerging capabilities of successful healthcare leaders and the current state of the literature in a COVID context. Then, we will map out the capabilities and create a potential instructional medium using a mobile app design with digital resources for future healthcare leaders’ training.

Faculty Supervisor:

Teresa Chan

Student:

Partner:

LEADS Change Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Education

University:

McMaster University

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