A Cardiologist On Leading from the Heart with Dr Jonathan Fisher

Welcome back to the We Are Human Leaders podcast. I’m Alexis Zahner and together with Co-Host Sally Clarke Today we’re speaking with Dr Jonathan Fisher about how we create space for the heart in Leadership.

Dr Fisher is a Mindful Cardiologist. He’s a Harvard trained physician, Clinical-Cardiologist and Mindfulness meditation teacher with the lived experience of surviving burnout, Dr Fisher has rediscovered his joy at work the hard way. 

With over 20 years of clinical experience, Dr Fisher is now committed to ending workplace burnout and optimizing peak performance in healthcare and the corporate world. 

In this candid conversation, Dr Fisher shares with us his heart breaking journey through burnout and recovery, back to finding purpose and joy in his life and work. We explore what it means to lead from the heart, and how important how heart is mentally, emotionally and spiritually in our lives.

Dr Fisher shares his personal journey through understanding and regulating emotions, and how engaging with and creating space for our emotions is the key to heart health. He also shares key insights from his upcoming book “Just one Heart: A Cardiologist practical guide to the mind-heart connection’

This conversation was so warm and loving we left feeling like we’d been all wrapped up in a big hug. We’re grateful to have you with us for this conversation, let’s dive in.

Dr. Jonathan Fisher’s mission is to help others train the mind and heal the heart. He is a Harvard-trained clinical cardiologist, mindfulness meditation teacher, and Clinician Leader for the Novant Health Office of Organizational Well-being and Resiliency. In that role he facilitates leadership training, communication workshops, as well as mindfulness, stress reduction, and peak performance retreats for 38,000 healthcare team members, providers, and leaders. Dr. Fisher also serves as a Medical Director for the Novant Health Cardio-Pulmonary-Oncology Rehabilitation & Wellness Program and helped introduce the first formal mindfulness training programs for patients, providers, team members, and leaders.

In 2020 he co-founded the Ending Clinician Burnout Global Community and organized the world’s first global summit dedicated to ending clinician burnout, with over a thousand participants from 43 countries, including interviews with 84 global experts in health and well-being including Arianna Huffington.

He has delivered keynotes and workshops on the art and science of well-being, stress mastery, ending burnout, developing heartful leaders, compassion, and mindfulness for teams and organizations globally including The American College of Lifestyle Medicine, IBM, Bank of America, IE Business School, among others.

He is currently working on his first book “Just One Heart: A cardiologist’s practical guide to the mind-heart connection” due for release Fall 2023.