The Details: Leading with Good Judgment
For over 20 years we have walked shoulder-to-shoulder with healthcare education leaders, a trusted partner in launching and transforming careers.
Our core belief? You don’t have to just survive challenges—you can use them as a gym for building leadership skill and identity. A stalled project, a resistant boss, a wayward trainee, a high-stakes conversation—each can become a rep that strengthens your leadership voice and your team’s performance.
In Leading with Good Judgment, you activate a reinforcing loop between behavior and identity. New behaviors reinforce your evolving identity. And your evolving identity—asking “Who do I want to be in this moment?”—informs new behavior.
Leading with Good Judgment’s Proven Strategies
1. High Standards and High Regard
You pursue excellence with compassion and curiosity—for yourself and others.
Focus: Leading with Good Judgment starts as an “inside job.” When your internal reset takes hold it ripples outward to your team and organization as you start showing up in a new way.
2. Transparent Thinking
You preview your goals and decision-making so people don’t have to guess where you’re coming from. Whether leading a meeting, a hiring process, a clinical team, or curriculum design group, your colleagues know where you are coming from.
Focus: Reduce fear and enhance clarity about purpose and process.
3. Curiosity about Perspectives
Using tools from cognitive science and psychology, you deepen insight into your own patterns and learn how to build the psychological safety, invite and value other perspectives.
Focus: Enhance connection and performance by integrating diverse viewpoints.
4. Conversation for Culture Change
What you say—and how you say it—shapes your culture. Every conversation launches a virtuous or vicious cycle that can strengthen or degrade a learning culture.
Focus: Become a change agent who shapes pockets of culture, one interaction at a time.