Growth Edge Leadership Newsletter
The Growth Edge Leadership Newsletter offers concise, actionable leadership strategies for healthcare professionals. Delivered weekly, each issue features a short video, motivational insights, and expert resources, empowering you to enhance your leadership skills efficiently and effectively.
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Mentorship vs. Sponsorship: If You Don’t Know the Difference, You’re Limiting Growth.
Mentorship and sponsorship are often used interchangeably.
They shouldn’t be.
While both are essential to leadership development and career progression, they serve very different purposes. And when leaders misunderstand or collapse the distinction, growth stalls in ways that are often invi...
Feb 11, 2026
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Mentorship Is Not a Nice-to-Have. It’s a Performance Strategy.
Mentorship is often talked about as a generous act. A “good leader” behavior. Something nice to do when you have time.
That framing sells it short.
Mentorship isn’t a soft extra layered on top of “real work.” It is real work. And when done well, it’s a powerful performance strategy; for ...
Feb 04, 2026
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No is a Full Sentence: How to Decline Without Guilt
If you’ve ever felt stretched thin, overcommitted, or quietly resentful, chances are your calendar isn’t the problem, your boundaries are.
Most leaders I coach aren’t struggling because they’re incapable or undisciplined. They’re struggling because they say yes too often or without thinkin...
Jan 20, 2026
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Why the Future Belongs to Human-Centered Leaders
Think back to a leader who truly left a mark on you.
Chances are, it wasn’t their credentials or efficiency you remember. It was likely how they made you feel. Seen. Supported. Valued.
After more than two decades of working alongside leaders in medicine, business, and beyond, I can tel...
Jan 13, 2026
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Looking Forward: The Power of a Fresh Start
Happy New Year, friends!
Turning the page into a new year is a powerful time, not because everything seems to reset, but because we get to choose how we begin again. A fresh start invites us to pause and approach our work and leadership with greater clarity about what we’re aiming for and ...
Jan 06, 2026
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Leading into 2026: The Power of Reflection for Growth and Renewal
For some, these days between Christmas and the New Year bring a rare pause, a quiet stretch of time to rest, reset, and look back. For others, it’s another week of answering the call, caring for patients, leading teams, keeping essential systems moving.
Wherever this week finds you, reflectio...
Dec 30, 2025
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The Gift of Presence: Why Slowing Down Is the Most Generous Act of Leadership
As leaders, we’re made for motion. We plan, we produce, we perform. But as the year winds down, something else calls for our attention: people.
Long after the deadlines fade and the goals are checked off, what lingers isn’t what we did, but rather how we made people feel.
I believe that pre...
Dec 23, 2025
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Engage, Energize, Elevate: The Leader’s Guide to Meaningful Feedback
“Am I on the right track?”“Was that what you were hoping for?”“How can I improve next time?”
You’ve probably heard these questions from your team, or maybe you’ve even asked them yourself.
Employees crave feedback. They want to know where they stand, how they can grow, and whether their wor...
Dec 16, 2025
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The Stewardship of Succession: Why Every Great Leader Plans for What’s Next
Let’s be honest: the idea of succession planning can make even the most confident leaders uneasy.
In a job market defined by uncertainty, the thought of preparing someone to replace you might feel like inviting risk, or worse, irrelevance.
But what if I told you that it’s actually the oppos...
Dec 09, 2025
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New Leader Launch. Spring 2026 Cohort. Pre-Sale This Week!
I’m excited to announce the spring 2026 cohort of my signature leadership development course, New Leader Launch, and this week only, you can access exclusive pre-sale pricing.
New Leader Launch is a six-week intensive leadership development experience designed specifically for emerging leader...
Dec 02, 2025
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The Myth of Balance: Why Great Leaders Live in Seasons, Not Equilibrium
For decades, we’ve been told to chase “work-life balance,” as if our professional and personal lives exist on opposite sides of a scale.
However, the reality is that they’re not opposing forces. They’re actually deeply intertwined.
The phrase “work-life balance” first gained traction in the...
Dec 02, 2025
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Leading in the Age of Distraction: How to Protect Your Team’s Focus in a World That Won’t Pause
We live in an era of endless pings, tabs, messages, and micro-interruptions. And it’s not just annoying, it’s eroding our performance, energy, and team culture.
Each time someone context-switches, shifting from one task to another, your brain pays a price. A study from the University of Calif...
Nov 25, 2025
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