Leading Valiantly in Healthcare: Four Steps to Sustainable Success - Softcover

Catherine Robinson Walker, MBA, MCC, is President of The Leadership Studio and specializes in leadership development and executive coaching in healthcare. She has 25 years of executive leadership experience in complex health organizations, national commissions, and academic consortia. Robinson-Walker has served nurse and physician leaders, chief executives, management teams, and other senior healthcare staff as a master certified executive coach, strategic consultant, team facilitator, and keynote and workshop speaker. For 18 years, Robinson-Walker was the founding Executive Director of the Network for Healthcare Management. In addition, she has held executive director roles with the Chicago-based Joint Commission and the California Health Collaborative. She has published more than 50 articles and chapters on leadership as well as a series bestseller, Women and Leadership in Health Care: The Journey to Authenticity and Power .

Leading Valiantly in Healthcare is an artful combination of insight and wisdom, shared in a fashion that will resonate with any contemporary leader. This book offers readers the rare opportunity to engage in personal executive coaching, with a nationally renowned master certified executive coach at their fingertips! --Dana Nicholson Bledsoe President, Children s and Women s Hospital Sacred Heart Health System

Leading Valiantly in Healthcare is an important book for today's leaders. Some leadership books you read and then put away. This is a book that can provide guided learning and splendid content for personal reflection beyond the first reading. Thank you, Cathy Robinson-Walker, for giving us a book for our minds, our hearts, and our souls. I accept your invitation to begin to walk this path. --Pamela Austin Thompson, MS, RN, CENP, FAAN CEO, American Organization of Nurse Executives Senior VP for Nursing, American Hospital Association

This book is an amazing compilation of theory, exemplars, and lessons learned wrapped in a foundation of leadership integrity. I am so impressed with the intensity of the information, which automatically drives one into deep and thorough personal reflections. This book is for every leader who wants to be the best leader he or she can be! --Rhonda Anderson, DNSc, RN, FAAN, FACHE Chief Executive Officer Cardon Children's Medical Center