How will you create a different 2026? How will you know it's better and what new mindset or skillsets are you going to invest in now, with your team to get there?

I want to share a real example from my years with The Permanente Medical Group — the physician arm of Kaiser Permanente — where I spent 15 years, and the last ten as a Vice President of Operations.

I left a message here on this platform about this whole notion of grinding at work, or can we keep doing what we're doing in order to achieve what we're trying to get to the same way and get different results.

So I was out on my bike, and I had a morning cycle that I do, and just happened to be raining and cold, which is a little odd for California, but we're heading into that season, right?

It’s been a few years since I first launched Guided Leadership Insights — and what a journey it’s been.

I'm Joan, and I have a company by the name of guided leadership insights, and I'm here today to talk about pivoting my business, to pay attention to what's happening in the world, in the country, and our personal lives, our families and at work, and that is this overload of information and conflict and opposing views, and at its baseline, we are already always listening from a perspective of, what can I predict?

Hi everybody. My name is Joan. It's nice to meet you. Most of my career has been working as a senior leader in a large healthcare organization with a focus on developing strong, resilient leaders and teams. So in 2021 I left a large healthcare organization to build a coaching and consulting practice focus on helping people strengthen purpose and meaning, develop new skills, take courageous risks at work and at home, all to move good forward. I left a well paying, meaningful c

Hi everyone — Joan here. Let me ask you something. How many times have you invested your time, your energy, or your organization’s dollars into a workshop, a seminar, or even a coaching engagement… only to realize six months later, “Well, that was nice… but nothing really changed”? Or maybe you’ve been promoted — or watched a colleague get promoted — and suddenly the expectations are completely different… but the training and support don’t match the responsibility. Going fro

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