Leadership coaching for healthcare leaders

Michele Smith, MHA, PCC, led in healthcare before she coached in it. Her years at Sutter Health, combined with a Master of Healthcare Administration and the ICF Professional Certified Coach credential, mean you do not have to translate your world for her: she already knows what a bed meeting, a survey window, a physician relationship and a short-staffed unit feel like from the inside.

Coaching is a private hour that belongs to you, which is rare in a system built around everyone else. Leaders bring the conversation they have been avoiding, the decision they keep rewriting, the relationship with a physician or a peer that has quietly hardened, or the question of whether they still want the role they worked years to get.

The work is practical. You think out loud, Michele asks the questions that surface what you already suspect, and you leave with something you can do before the next shift rather than a theory about leadership. Where it helps, DISC gives you language for why a colleague responds the way they do.

Clients include nurse managers and directors, physician leaders, administrators and executives, in Sacramento health systems and remotely across the country. What they have in common is responsibility that cannot be set down, and the sense that there is nowhere safe to think about it.