Executive Leadership in Transformational Change

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Senior professional leaders are routinely expected to lead complex institutional change. Yet most formal leadership development programs remain centered on individual advancement rather than the systems those leaders are charged with transforming. Executive Leadership in Transformational Change (ELTC) is a longitudinal leadership formation program for senior institutional leaders designed to close that gap.

Program Overview

What Is ELTC?

ELTC is a longitudinal leadership development program for senior leaders who are positioned to drive institutional and systems-level change. Unlike programs focused on individual advancement, ELTC targets the capacity to diagnose, design and lead transformation across units, functions and organizational boundaries.

Six Core Competency Domains

ELTC learning is organized around six integrated competency domains, woven across all three convenings:

Systems Thinking: Diagnosing root causes and understanding downstream effects across complex organizations.
Crisis Management: Leading with clarity, equity and resilience under institutional pressure.
Allyship as Leadership: Embedding advocacy, sponsorship and accountability as core leadership practice.
Organizational Dynamics: Decoding power structures, cultural patterns and informal systems that shape institutional change.
Digital Literacy: Leading responsibly in an era of AI, data and rapidly evolving technology.
Resource Management: Stewarding people, funding and capacity to sustain the mission of the organization in resource-constrained environments.

Program Structure: Three Convenings

Each ELTC convening is a full immersive experience with protected time for plenary learning, small-group work, applied institutional practice and peer accountability. Between convenings, participants complete applied institutional projects with structured deliverables and facilitated check-ins.

Focus	What Participants Do
Foundations of System Leadership	Establish shared frameworks for systems thinking, organizational diagnostics and equity-integrated leadership. Begin institutional project mapping.
Leading Across Boundaries	Apply systems-mapping tools to real institutional challenges. Practice cross-unit leadership, crisis navigation and allyship as organizational strategy.
From Analysis to Action	Present institutional project findings. Develop sustainability and dissemination plans. Integrate equity, digital literacy and economic literacy into leadership action.

Why ELTC? The Case for Systems-Level Leadership

Institutions face mounting pressure to address structural inequities, integrate emerging technologies and build cultures where all people can contribute and thrive. Yet leadership development has largely focused on individual skill-building. It is time to address the systems-level transformation these moments demand.
ELTC addresses that frontier directly. Research and practice consistently show:

Teams with diverse lived experiences make better decisions and produce stronger patient outcomes. (Edmondson, Administrative Science Quarterly, 2019)
Inclusive leadership cultures reduce turnover and interpersonal conflict while increasing team cohesion and sustained productivity. (Mor Barak et al., 2018; Wiley et al., 2021)
Inclusive excellence initiatives fail when treated as add-ons. Durable change requires structural, systems-level attention that is embedded in leadership practice.
Cohort-based learning accelerates durable behavior change. Shared language, peer accountability and applied institutional projects produce lasting results that single-event training cannot. (Eagly & Carli, Leadership Quarterly, 2021)

ELTC operationalizes these insights into a structured, applied formation model by bridging theory and institutional practice in ways that outlast any single cohort.Studies indicate that inclusive environments reduce turnover rates. The Journal of Organizational Behavior published a meta-analysis in 2018 showing that workplaces with supportive allies saw reduced turnover and increased job satisfaction among marginalized employees (Mor Barak et al., 2018).

What ELTC Produces: Impact at Every Level

Individual Impact	Institutional Impact	Field-Level Impact
Stronger capacity to diagnose root causes and anticipate downstream effects Fewer failed or stalled initiatives driven by reactive, fragmented leadership Leaders who translate equity from aspiration to institutional action	Shared leadership language and frameworks that outlast individual participation Reduced silos and improved cross-unit coordination Greater alignment between strategy, culture and equity priorities	Practice-based evidence advancing systems leadership in academic medicine Scalable, replicable model for additional cohorts and partner institutions Dissemination through ELAM®, AAMC, AAFP and NMA

How ELTC differs from ELAM and ELH

Dimension	ELAM – Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine®	ELTC – Executive Leadership in Transformational Change (ELTC)	ELH – Executive Leadership in Health Care
Primary Focus	Individual leadership development preparing faculty for executive roles in academic medicine.	Institutional and systems-level leadership equipping leaders to drive cultural, structural and operational transformation.	Individual leadership development expanding ELAM’s model to executives across health care sectors.
Change Level	Personal	Structrural/Systemic/Organizational	Personal
Core Question	“How do I lead and advance within my institution (in an uncertain environment)?”	“How do I transform my institution to be more adaptive, innovative and future-ready?”	“How do I lead and advance in complex health systems (in an uncertain environment)?”
Audience	Mid- to senior-level women faculty in academic medicine.	Senior leaders positioned to influence policy, culture and institutional strategy: “change agents.”	Health executives and physician-leaders across health care organizations (academic or not).
Competency	Negotiation, finance, self-awareness, communication, institutional politics.	Systems thinking, crisis management, allyship, inclusive culture-building, and digital and economic literacy.	Negotiation, finance, self-awareness, communication, institutional politics, business strategy, health economics, organizational innovation.
Program Identity	ELAM is about the leader.	ELTC is about the system the leader transforms.	ELH is about the leader.

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