Well-Being Centered Healthcare (Physician) Leadership Course

Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Online

Participants will attend a three day session from October 2025 to December 2025. 

• October 28, 9am – 5pm (Main Session)

• November 10, 7pm – 8:30pm (Well-being-centered Team Communication)

• December 8, 2025, 7pm – 8:30pm (Mini-Capstone Presentations)

Healthcare leaders will learn and exercise best practices to create a safe and trusting work environment. Each session is a dynamic interactive program designed to share important data about leadership and workplace well-being, provision of key tools for improving workplace dynamics and time to work with, practice and brainstorm how best to use and engage with the tools. The course directors and esteemed speakers are members of the Collaborative for Health and Renewal in Medicine (CHARM) and national experts in Faculty and GME well-being. Space is limited so secure your spot today. This effort is in collaboration with the Office of Wellbeing and Resilience, the Office of Faculty Development, and Talent Development and Learning.

This physician leadership course focuses on the impact of leadership behaviors and styles on wellbeing and engagement of teams. The sessions cover vast areas of content including leadership styles, psychology safety, coaching, feedback and communication strategies to enhance leadership practices that support a culture of wellbeing and fulfillment.

At the beginning of each session, the previous session's core tools are reviewed, and participants will have the opportunity to discuss how and when those tools were utilized.

October 28, 9am – 5pm (Main Session)

1. Leading with Style: The Impact of leadership on wellbeing and leadership styles and behaviors that may reduce burnout: Participants will discover their leadership and communication style preferences, how these may impact their effectiveness and interpersonal interactions, and how to best leverage different styles. Participants will also discover the key relationships between leadership behaviors and well-being outcomes and describe core leadership behaviors for well-being.

2. Cultivating Psychological Safety to Create Trusting & Engaged Teams: The principles and tools demonstrated in this session will enable leaders to create a space in which team members feel safe to speak up and contribute, which in turn will promote optimal team functioning, engagement, innovation, and learning.

3. Coaching For Growth: Creating a Culture of Curiosity and Development: Leaders will learn tangible tools for coaching team members such as building trust, asking curious questions, and listening, to guide goal attainment and problem-solving helping team members find their passions, develop their skills and advance their careers.

4. Giving Effective Feedback to Enhance Team Success: Ask First! Participants will practice a simple framework for framing and then delivering reinforcing and constructive feedback that builds on learner's and team member's self-assessment to guide them towards improvement.

5. Navigating Challenging Conversations: Identify, Share and Tackle: Leaders will learn strategies and tools to develop comfort and competence in initiating, managing and finding compromise during the most difficult and often most important conversations, specifically when conflict or a difference of opinion is at the core.

6. Leveling Up Appreciation and Stress Management: Participants will practice strategies to identify praiseworthy and prideworthy moments and show appreciation to colleagues with authenticity and regularity to improve team members’ well-being and sense of value at work. They will also review brief and simple practices to manage stress.

November 10, 7pm – 8:30pm (Well-being-centered Team Communication)

Participants will utilize a framework for communicating with teams in a caring, effective manner in order to promote transparency, team engagement & professional satisfaction and reduce anxiety and stress in uncertain times.

December 8, 2025, 7pm – 8:30pm (Mini-Capstone Presentations)

Participants will break up into small groups and present 10 minutes on their min-capstone Well-Being Centered leadership projects. Each small group will include a faculty member.

1. Identify the relationship between leadership behaviors and well-being related outcomes such as burnout, mental health, professional fulfillment, psychological safety, patient safety and quality, and intention to leave.
2. Create safe and trusting work environments for employees to thrive and flourish and in turn result in the highest quality of care for patients.
3. Encourage a work culture that emphasizes delivery of regular feedback, appreciation, and coaching to allow employees to develop their talents and skills.
4. Craft a communication strategy for your direct reports that demonstrates how much they are valued and cared for and enhances their well-being and professional satisfaction.

Registration Fees:
By August 31, 2025
$695

After August 31, 2025
$750

Cancellation Policy
A $50 administrative fee will be deducted from all refunds/cancellations issued. All refund and cancellation requests must be emailed to the CME Office at [email protected] by Tuesday, October 7, 2025. No refunds will be made after this date or for “no-shows.” No refunds will be issued for registration fees less than $50.

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (10.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (10.00 hours)

It is the policy of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to ensure objectivity, balance, independence, transparency, and scientific rigor in all CME-provided educational activities. All faculty participating in the planning or implementation of a provided activity are expected to disclose to the audience any relevant financial relationships and to assist in resolving any conflict of interest that may arise from the relationship. Presenters must also make a meaningful disclosure to the audience of their discussions of unlabeled or unapproved drugs or devices. This information will be available as part of the course material.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

It is the policy of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to ensure objectivity, balance, independence, transparency, and scientific rigor in all accredited CE educational activities. All individuals in control of content of an activity accredited by ISMMS are expected to disclose all their financial relationships with ineligible companies existing within the prior 24 months. Relevant financial relationships are mitigated and disclosed to learners before the activity takes place. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

Tuesday, October 28, 2025