Healthcare Plus Podcast

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38_Taking Challenges to Opportunities with Justin Reed

2021-11-2242:28

Justin Reed joins the podcast to share how he navigates the toughest challenges by turning them into opportunities for training and developing leaders. Justin is currently the Assistant Chief – EMS for Cy-Fair Fire Department. As the overall EMS Director, he is responsible for all activities involving the 140 full-time paid staff, 13 ambulances who respond to approximately 40,000 calls annually, covering a population of 640,000. Justin has over 15 years of progressively responsible experience...

37_How Belonging and Being a Part of a Team Impacts Well-being with Dr. Stephen Beeson

2021-11-0835:52

Joining the Busy Leader’s Podcast is Dr. Stephen Beeson who is an author, physician, speaker and founder of Practicing Excellence. He and his company have helped hundreds of medical groups and hospitals across the country develop their clinicians in ways that transform the experience for those receiving and providing care. Throughout this podcast, Dr. Beeson shares how they help clinicians, teams and leaders build new skills that help them experience more of those restorative moments of patie...

131_The APC Opportunity: Unlocking the Leadership Potential of Advanced Practice Clinicians

2026-09-1525:34

In this episode of the Healthcare Plus Podcast, host Dan Collard sits down with Don Taylor, president of Don Taylor Leadership, LLC, and adjunct professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center’s School of Public Health, to explore one of healthcare’s most underutilized assets: its nearly 700,000 advanced practice clinicians. Taylor brings a perspective few can match. A retired U.S. Air Force colonel with more than 45 years in healthcare, he commanded the busiest trauma hospital in Iraq as t...

130_From the 12th Percentile to the 99th: How Spooner Health Transformed Employee Engagement

2026-09-0323:07

In this episode of the Healthcare Plus Podcast, host Dan Collard sits down with Mike Schafer, CEO of Spooner Health in Spooner, Wisconsin, for a conversation about what sustained high performance looks like over time. Schafer has led Spooner Health since 1990. When he partnered with the Studer Group in 2009, his organization was at the 12th percentile for employee engagement. Within two years, they had hit the 94th. For the last three years, they have held at the 99th. This is an impressive t...

Ep129_Walk in Ready: How New Healthcare Leaders Build Trust, Break Silos, and Lead with Confidence

2026-07-0728:34

With an average CEO tenure now at 3.8 years, leaders are moving between organizations faster than ever. Cultures are shifting. Leadership structures are reshaping. The ability to step into a new environment and genuinely connect, not just perform, is a skill every healthcare leader needs to develop deliberately. That skill has a name: belonging. (Yes, we talk about belonging for employees all the time…but rarely for the leaders themselves.) In this episode of the Healthcare Plus Podcast, host...

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