Lead Well MD: Transforming Healthcare Through Effective Clinician Leadership

Welcome to Lead Well MD where we dive into the art and science of effective clinician leadership. Through compelling stories and insightful conversations with guests from across healthcare, we explore the intersection between the foundational skills of emotional intelligence and effective clinician leadership . We examine how leaders can drive meaningful change and transform how they care for their teams, their organizations, and their patients. Join Ashley Wendel, MA —physician leadership consultant, 1:1 advisor, and trusted guide—as she shares practical leadership tips and strategies honed over 17 years of partnering with clinician leaders like you. Each episode is designed to empower you with tools to lead more effectively and inspire change within your teams and organizations. Our mission is to help you understand yourself and others more deeply while building the critical leadership skills needed to make a lasting impact. Together, let’s

Lead Well MD: Transforming Healthcare Through Effective Clinician Leadership is a health podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 15 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  "Leading with Purpose: How UH Cleveland Is Rewiring Culture, Leadership, and the Future of Care" with Dr. Patrick Runnels

  May 7, 202652 minS0

  <p>What happens when a psychiatrist trained in homeless outreach decides the real problem isn't the patients - it's the systems supposed to serve them?</p><p>In this episode, host Ashley Wendel sits down with <b>Dr. Patrick Runnels, Chief Medical Officer of the Veale Initiative for Healthcare Innovation at University Hospitals Cleveland</b>, for a wide-ranging conversation about what's broken in healthcare leadership - and what it actually looks like to build something better.</p><p>Patrick shares how nearly two decades of leading large, complex health systems has convinced him that the crisis in healthcare is not...

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  "When Working Harder Isn’t the Answer: How to Reclaim Your Life in Medicine" with Dr. Ben Reinking

  Apr 15, 202634 minS0

  <p>What happens when doing everything “right” still leaves you feeling stuck, exhausted, and disconnected from the work you once loved?</p><p>In this honest and deeply human conversation, Dr. Ben Reinking - a pediatric cardiologist, educator, and founder of "The Developing Doctor", a physician coaching practice - shares a story many clinicians may recognize. From the outside, his career was thriving. But beneath the surface, the strategy that had always worked when things were tough - keeping his head down and working harder - was no longer sustainable.</p><p>Dr. Reinking describes his realization that something wasn’t righ...

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  "Leading Beyond the Bedside: From Clinical Expert to System Leader" with Dr. Rob Nordgren

  Mar 20, 202650 minS0

  <p>The transition from practicing physician to system leader looks smooth from the outside. Internally, it’s often much more complicated.</p><p>In this episode, Ashley Wendel talks with Dr. Rob Nordgren, Divisional Chief Medical Officer at <b>Sutter Health</b>, about what physicians have to learn as they move from bedside expertise into broader organizational leadership. They discuss the identity shift that comes with leadership, the role of trust and emotional intelligence, how to navigate resistance and change, and why courageous conversations matter so much in complex systems.</p><p>This is a grounded, honest conversation about what le...

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  "From Authority to Influence: What Clinician Leaders Must UN-Learn to be Effective in Leading Change" with Dr. Rob Nordgren

  Mar 11, 202639 minS0

  <p>In this episode of Lead Well MD, Ashley sits down with physician executive <b>Dr. Rob Nordgren</b>, Chief Medical Officer of the Greater San Francisco and East Bay Division for Sutter Health, to explore the leadership shift clinicians must make as they move from expert problem-solver to system leader. Drawing on Rob’s journey from pediatrician to senior, system-level executive, the conversation unpacks what physicians often need to unlearn about authority, hierarchy, and control in order to lead through influence instead.</p><p>Together, Ashley and Rob discuss why trust, humility, curiosity, and emotional intelligence matter so much in...

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  "The High-Performing Woman's Experience in Medicine: Exhausted, Accomplished, and Still Unfulfilled" with Dr. Erica Kreismann

  Feb 25, 202642 minS0

  <p><b>Episode Summary (succinct, with key highlights)</b></p><p>In this episode, Ashley sits down with Dr. Erica Kreismann - emergency medicine physician turned executive coach - to explore what it means to be a woman and clinician leader in today’s healthcare landscape. Erica shares her own formative journey, from training in New York City during 9/11 to making a radical “pattern interrupt” move to Tasmania, and how those experiences reshaped her understanding of purpose, contribution, and sustainable leadership.</p><p>Together, they unpack why so many high-performing women in healthcare feel hollow or stuck - not because they’r...

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