The Innovative Health Care Leader: Drive Innovation in Your Health Care Organization.

Innovation. Leadership. Resilience. Today’s successful health care leaders require all three. In this extraordinary one-week program, you’ll learn how design thinking and personal leadership skills can help you develop innovative solutions to the specific challenges facing health care leaders—from improving patient care and prioritizing physician wellness to developing negotiation skills and anticipating health care reform.

Experience Stanford business and medicine in a health care leadership program featuring design thinking and personal leadership skill development.

Faculty members from both Stanford GSB and Stanford Medicine share their research and strategic insights to create a rigorous, relevant, and experiential curriculum.   

  • Find creative solutions to health care challenges with hands-on design thinking sessions
  • Develop personal leadership skills that inspire innovation
  • Learn about the key challenges facing health care organizations—from the ethical use of big data to measuring clinical outcomes


Program Dates

07 Jun 2020 – 12 Jun 2020

Application due: 24 Apr 2020

Who Should Attend

  • Global senior-level executives and policymakers with at least 10 years of experience — MDs and non-MDs — from medical schools, HMOs, PPOs, hospitals, and foundations
  • Participant titles may include hospital CEO, COO, and CFO; academic deans, senior VPs, department chairs, and center directors