Leaders in Health

How can small groups generate systemic change in healthcare?

“ALIA has had a transformational impact on healthcare in Columbus. The learning and connections from the Summer Institute have ignited a movement that is reaching through the system, connecting ideas, unleashing energy, and generating innovation.

“This is because unlike other leadership training where you come away with new ideas, you actually come back from ALIA with tangible skills that lead to changed behaviors and real systemic impact.”

— Phil Cass, CEO, Columbus Medical Foundation

ALIA in a Day
Change for Good: What Does it Really Take?
June 24
Join the healthcare break-out session in the afternoon. Meet your counterparts from other contexts, share experiences, and learn from Our Optimal Health, an innovative project in which a small group has changed the public health discourse in Columbus, Ohio, and spun off multiple new projects. Highlights include:

• Health Block Watches where citizens are taking responsibility for the health of their neighbours
• An Insurance Payer Summit around the state health care reform initiative
• A major effort on “Patient Centered Medical Homes” led by ACCESS Health Columbus

Columbus Site Visit and Dialogue
June 26, 9:00-12:30
Hosted by Our Optimal Health, this session will be an exploration of what it takes for a small core group to generate systemic change in health care, and an opportunity to learn from the successes and challenges of other initiatives in this sector.

“To describe my ALIA experience as transformative would be an understatement: I feel revolutionized.”
— Hope J. Lafferty, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

Leadership Intensive
June 26-29
Choose the 15-hour skill-building track that fits your current needs.

Innovation Marketplace
June 30-July 1
Choose one “Skill-building for Systems Change” session and join the healthcare innovation session.

“Determining how to create a sustainable health care system is an incredibly complex question. Our current institutions and systems are at the breaking point and traditional change methodologies are insufficient to address these complex challenges.  My ALIA experience gave me tools to unleash creativity, innovation, and real solutions to the complex problems in health care.”
— Georgina Veldhorst, former Vice President, North York General Hospital

Post-program
Stay connected and share resources online with the ALIA community

Team Advantage
Teams of four or more are eligible for complimentary team coaching. See the team advantage page for details.

“This was among the richest experiences of my life—insightful, provocative, deep, invigorating.”
—Barry Oshry, author, Seeing Systems and Leading Systems