Leonardo Baumworcel: Hospital São Lucas

Leonardo Baumworcel is the director of Hospital São Lucas in Brazil. He oversees a 200-bed hospital and emergency room seeing 10,000 patients a month. He also oversees the work of 2,500 staff. He is a cardiologist by training and a recent alum of the Coaching for Leaders Academy.

Key Points

One way to utilize the podcast is to leverage if for staff training to get the entire team on the same page.
Resilience is key when working to achieve your vision through change — beware of giving up too quickly.
Leaders need to establish the frameworks and limitations for what to do — and then help people to have the freedom to work within it.
Peer mentoring allows both leaders to learn from each other, instead of limiting the professional development to one person.

Resources Mentioned

Leading Change* by John Kotter
Our Iceberg Is Melting* by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber

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Move From Theory to Practice, with Steve Schroeder (episode 369)

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