Health Care Leadership and Management: Leading Through Change

The Wharton School

Leadership and Management

About Programme

The ongoing changes taking place within health care are rippling throughout the industry, affecting everyone from traditional buyers, payers, and producers to tech companies and retailers that are newer to the health care ecosystem. Navigating a multitude of challenges while elevating the health of the population will require a deeper understanding of the shifting landscape and more innovative, strategic approaches to leadership.

Health Care Leadership and Management: Leading Through Change provides a comprehensive examination of the evolutionary path, structural impact, and critical issues within the changing health care ecosystem. It leverages faculty expertise from our world-renowned Wharton MBA and Wharton’s Health Care Management program and focuses on strengthening your key leadership skills and overall business acumen tools. Health Care Leadership and Management: Leading Through Change will empower you with the knowledge, tools, and insights you need to immediately make more effective decisions and more impactful contributions, propelling you and your organization forward now and into the future.

Programme Content

Health Care Leadership and Management: Leading Through Change uses a blend of interactive lectures, small-group work, and simulations to bring your learning to life and empower you with meaningful, real-world skills you can immediately put to use. Strategically beneficial to a wide array of health care professionals, Health Care Leadership and Management: Leading Through Change will immerse you into a dynamic learning experience alongside a new network of accomplished peers from across the health care ecosystem.

By combining industry insight, individual leadership development, and strategic business acumen, Health Care Leadership and Management: Leading Through Change will elevate your effectiveness within your organization, empowering you to lead the organizational change initiatives needed to improve care, access, equity, and patient and provider satisfaction.

You’ll learn the freedom of innovative thinking, the power of persuasive negotiation, and how to apply these disciplines within the health care environment for optimal growth. Each day, an opening faculty-led discussion and reflection session will allow you to address specific challenges and build a personalized toolkit to help you apply your learnings upon returning to work.

Session topics include:

The Changing Landscape of Health Care

Leading Dynamic Teams

Operational Excellence in Health Care: Linking Operations, Finance, and Strategy

Behavioral Economics: Improving Health and Health Care by Improving Decision Making

Strategic Persuasion and Negotiation

Power and Politics in Health Care Ecosystems

Transforming Care: Innovation Strategies for Health Care Leaders

The Role of Psychological Safety in Improving Health Care

Accelerators in Health Care: The Innovation Game

Health Care: Beyond Efficiency

The Fundamentals of Private Equity in Health Care: Lessons and Best Practices

Health Care and AI

Analyzing Comparative Health Care Systems

Programme Audience

This program is specifically designed for existing, aspiring, and emerging leaders throughout the health care ecosystem, including:

Doctors, nurses, and other clinicians in health care facilities

Care-delivery system leaders seeking to improve the quality and efficiency of the services that they provide for patients, the work experience of affiliated staff, and response to industry changes (e.g., AI use and value-based payment)

Health insurance leaders seeking to develop and execute better organizational strategy, lead the shift from volume to value, and form effective coalitions to improve the health of populations

Biopharmaceutical executives and device manufacturers

Technology and innovation company leaders who aim to meet the demand for superior products and services that enable health and health care

Fluency in English, written and spoken, is required for participation in Wharton Executive Education programs.

This program is held at the Steinberg Conference Center located on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. Meals and accommodations are included in the program fees. Learn more about planning your stay at Wharton’s Philadelphia campus .

To further leverage the value and impact of this program, we encourage companies to send cross-functional teams of executives to Wharton. We offer group-enrollment benefits to companies sending four or more participants.

Programme Benefits

Develop a comprehensive understanding of the changing health care landscape

Examine relationships between patients, clinicians, hospitals, insurers, employers, and communities

Explore the economic issues involved in producing, financing, and delivering efficient and equitable health care

Learn how to build and lead a culture of experimentation and innovation

Strengthen your negotiation and persuasion, agility, communication, strategic thinking, and decision-making skills

Build your business acumen with the latest Wharton knowledge and insights in operations, strategy and finance, products and market design, entrepreneurship, and more

Testimonials

"As an academic physician, I haven’t had to engage deeply with the business side of health care. There are people whose job it is to navigate the financial and insurance issues that shape how care is delivered, and I realized how much I didn’t know about that part of the system. I came away from this program with a much deeper understanding of the health care ecosystem. There are lots of leadership programs, but this one is unique in that it’s really about health care economics, which isn’t typically part of them. Ultimately, this isn’t about learning the economics of health care for its own sake. It’s about knowing the system well enough to advocate for the best possible experience and outcomes for our patients."

Meryl Cohen, MD

Professor of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

"Health Care Leadership and Management was inspiring. The content was thought-provoking, and the discussions were deep and engaging. The case studies helped with self-awareness and reflection: How do I show up as a leader in a team environment? How do I lead? What is the role of collective wisdom and how can I create an environment of experimentation?"

Maria Gonzalez

Area Experience Leader, Kaiser Permanente

"I found the Wharton Health Care Leadership and Management: Leading Through Change program valuable on multiple fronts! Most importantly, it was a well-crafted cohort that was able to bring diverse experiences and share openly to enrich relationships and discussions. The faculty taught current and relevant content while encouraging a two-way dialogue so we could go deeper into concepts. As someone who got my MBA some time ago, it was a great refresher on key management and leadership concepts combined with healthcare-specific trends, challenges and opportunities. The days were packed but very well organized to ensure both learning and connection!"

Roopa McNealis

Healthcare Chief of Staff, Fusion

"The faculty were exceptional and always accessible for questions and discussion. I was surprised by the geographic reach of my cohort — students from across the US and internationally — and the topics were extremely relevant for a physician leader. The program has helped me gain perspective by stepping outside my everyday leadership group and colleagues. I have gained confidence as a leader and have made lasting connections with faculty and fellow students. Overall, very worthwhile. Highly recommended."

Jeffrey Millstein, MD, FACP

Physician, Regional Medical Director Penn Primary and Specialty Care, Penn Medicine; Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

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