Our Mission: Elevating Leadership Performance in Health Care

Exemplar leadership, when deeply embedded within an organization, is the single deciding factor between success and failure.

Our Core Beliefs

  • Great organizations derive from great leadership.
  • Leadership excellence can be learned.
  • Exemplar leaders are defined by their day-to-day actions in three areas— setting direction, making decisions, and executing on goals.
  • Leaders’ mastery of these core imperatives is grounded in six personal attributes—character, skills, knowledge, values, motivation, and opportunity.
  • By fostering these attributes, organizations can accelerate the move toward exemplar leadership.

Academies Model of Successful Leadership

Our Investment to Date

  • Eight years of development work
  • $18 M+ of resources invested
  • 200,000+ hours of research and development time
  • 5,000+ interviews with leaders at all levels of health care and non-health care organizations
  • 30,000+ leaders participating, over 8,000 workshops delivered