Executive Roundtables are by invitation only through the WIH Industry Council. Please do not sign up for this event unless you have been a recipient of this invitation. 

2022 Roundtable topics will include:

1. Educating stakeholders about the changing roles of women in leadership and breaking down internal and external bias
2. The effects the pandemic has had on women in the workplace – especially healthcare

The roundtables are held on the first day of the Summit, hosted and coordinated by the Industry Council and include the Women in Healthcare National Board, Advisory Board, Industry Council, Executive Panelists and other invited guests. These individuals offer diverse perspectives from across the country, in different specialties throughout the healthcare continuum. The conversation is constructive and impactful! We will take deep dives into both of these topics and develop a set of resources from our discussions for members of the healthcare community to access to help advance their organization.

The goal of the Roundtable Discussion is to help shape the direction and create tools for organizational change to help advance women in the industry. With percentages of women in leadership in health being just around 20% (despite being 80% of the workforce) and with the heavy impact of the pandemic on our workforce, we need to come together more than ever to leverage our presence in leadership roles in the healthcare industry.  

Presenter: Shannon Bahrke Happe

We are living in a high-speed world.  Our work and personal lives are rushed and mashed together in a whirlwind of activity.  While this lifestyle may give the illusion of productivity and high performance, it has a huge negative impact on your health, happiness, your quality of life, and your performance.  So how do you slow down and find clarity in the constant disruption.  More importantly how can you focus your efforts to maximize your happiness AND success? 

During Shannon’s energetic and inspiring presentation, she will give you a closer look at what it took to win America’s first medal of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City.  She will share the same mindset, tools, and strategies she learned on this journey and how EVERYONE can use them in their personal and professional life.  Your extraordinary starts now!

Key Takeaways

1. What you focus on expands
   • Positive self-communication & visualization
   • Create a vision of self image – where do you want to be in 5 years?
   • Give yourself permission to say no to the constant distractions and yes to the most important things
2. Build your power team
   • Surround yourself with the people that believe in you as much as you believe in yourself
   • Know how they bring value to you and recognize how you bring value to them
3. The magic is in the transitions
   • Feel all of the emotions, especially the ones you don’t like and make you uncomfortable
   • Turn a devastating loss or huge obstacle into your biggest success
   • Trust in your purpose and core values
4. Do the hard things first

• Builds confidence for peak performance
• Small wins propel you forward for big wins

Presenter: Ms. Katie Radel

Running in High Heels: Finding Purpose in Pain

Why do we put so much pressure on ourselves? Katie Radel thought she finally “made it” with the title and salary she always wanted. But she never felt fulfilled until the next big goal was achieved. The cycle continued until she was in pain. She shares how she learned to gain self-awareness and recover from her achievement addiction and how you can too.

Running in High Heels: Finding Purpose in Pain

Diamonds are formed by extreme pressure. They are coveted, shiny, and beautiful. We are taught that putting pressure on ourselves and performing leads to a reward—to something beautiful. Women especially tend to get stuck in the vicious cycle of people pleasing, overcompensating, and achieving until we are burned out and exhausted.

But how can we stop the cycle? What if we can get still enough to listen to the inner voice that is asking us (and sometimes demanding us) to stop the unhealthy cycles and find purpose and meaning in our careers and in our lives?

Katie Radel is a recovering achievement addict. She wasn’t fulfilled until she achieved a goal and would immediately go on to the next thing. She was figuratively and literally running in high heels to win the next win and hit the next goal. But she couldn’t run fast enough, so she had to learn how to slow down. She took the time to ask herself some tough questions and learned how to find purpose through the pain of running so hard for so long.

Here are some of the questions Katie asked herself:

-What are you running toward that is causing you pain? What are you running from?

-Why are you putting pressure on yourself? Where does that come from?

-What is your inner voice telling you?

-If you take away your achievements, who are you?

After asking herself these hard questions, Katie became more self-aware. Self-awareness is the foundation of making any big changes. It is a valuable tool in reflecting and planning to change behavior, habits, and cycles. Here are three tools Katie found to be useful in helping her gain self-awareness:

-Talk to a supportive and trusted friend, mentor, coach, or therapist.

-Be still. Take time to clear out the noise.

-Listen to your inner voice. Give your inner voice a name and learn to embrace it.

Self-awareness takes some time. And uncovering some truths might be painful. When you get to better understand why you are operating in a certain way, what your triggers are, and what makes you tick, what do you do with this information and how can you move forward? Here are three ways to move forward with self-awareness:

-Surround yourself with those who support you. In whatever way you need.

-Handle with care. This is hard work and grace is necessary.

-Embrace bravery and do the thing. Even small steps make a difference.

This self-development breakout or panel will mix storytelling with concrete ways for the audience to move towards self-awareness and help find their purpose. Katie uses humor and vulnerability to connect with audiences and believes that everyone has a Catina (you will have to invite Katie to speak to learn about Catina).

Learning Objectives:

-How to become more self-aware

-How to listen to your inner voice

-How to better understand your purpose

-How to practice bravery and step into your purpose

Tracks:

• Self

Topics:

• Personal Development

Target Audience:

Mid Level

Presenter:

Katie Radel is the founder of Ripple Consulting Group, a public relations firm in Nashville. She is a former marketing and PR executive for large healthcare and financial services organizations and has led PR and marketing initiatives for Fortune 500 companies, startups, and nonprofits.

Katie is an Ohio native and lives in Nashville with her husband, son, and rescue dog. She is a people connector, dog and horse lover, and enjoys good food and good conversation. She is fiercely committed to giving back to the community and supporting women in their career journey.

Katie serves as mentorship co-chair on the board of Nashville Women in Healthcare, she is an advisory board member for Saddle Up!, she is a Nashville Entrepreneur Center advisor and facilitator, and she is a member of 100 Women Who Care and Impact100 Nashville.

Presenter: Ms. Clare Morrison

Healing the Anxious Energy Pattern

Each of us operates at a daily baseline of fight or flight (stress). This baseline stress level (even when moderate) can have massive impacts on health, day-to-day life, and the ability to be in focused action. Throughout, we will be working with an evidence-based, clinically proven intervention that effectively reduces the stress response in a measurable physiological way.

Mindset. Positive Affirmations. Enlightenment. You’ve done all the things and still feel stuck. You meditate and do yoga to be present and open. If you are more business focused, you set sizable goals, read mindset books and try to think big and stay positive. In order to be confident and rise to new challenges, we need to be present and grounded in a strong foundation of resiliency and self-belief. That means addressing the not-so-positive sides of us instead of pretending they aren’t there.

At its core, stress is about fear and safety. What if I’m not good enough? Scattered thinking, procrastination and paralyzing perfectionism are symptoms of the anxiety and dread we feel about moving toward a big goal (or even taking the next step).

This session breaks down your “walking around” stress level and what it means for your health, day-to-day life and ability to be in focused action. And then we turn up the heat and look at what happens to that stress level when a big goal is introduced. Throughout, we will be working with an evidence-based, clinically proven intervention that effectively reduces the stress response in a measurable physiological way.

Learning Objectives:

• Determine baseline “walking around” stress level

• Recognize how baseline stress level skyrockets when you turn to important tasks

• Understand the impact of stress on health, day-to-day life and the ability to be in focused action

• Learn and practice a technique to start re-wiring your brain and nervous system to operate in a calmer, more grounded way

Tracks:

• Self

Topics:

• Personal Development

Target Audience:

Mid Level

Presenter:

Clare Morrison, Clare Morrison Performance Coaching.

Clare Morrison, MPH, PCC, is the founder of Clare Morrison Performance Coaching. As a sought-after speaker and coach, she helps driven professionals who "have it all" to get off the hamster wheel of perfection and instead design a life where they thrive.

Clare’s pivot away from the hamster wheel began when her competitive amateur equestrian career came to a screeching halt during a horse show due to debilitating performance anxiety. How was it possible for a successful, competent professional woman who had presented technical health policy issues in boardrooms and the halls of Congress, to be overwhelmed by going into the horseshow ring?

The truth of the matter is that perfection is exhausting. The operating system that called for perfection needed to be upgraded. Now she finds excellence energizing.

Clare has an excellent foundation in the neurology, physiology, biochemistry and psychology of high performance from her undergraduate degree in psycho-biology, through her graduate studies, and her passionate study of high performance frameworks. Her ongoing competitive equestrian career has included appearances at the highest levels of national amateur competition. She holds a PCC (professional coaching credential) from the International Coach Federation (ICF), a certification in Life Design, and uses research-validated mind/body techniques such as HeartMath and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) to help her clients become resilient, elite performers in their own, meaningful lives.

Presenter: Celeste James

Digital Health - How Women are Blazing Trails in this Rapidly Growing Industry

Traditionally, men have predominantly filled leadership and executive positions in the healthcare industry, yet women in the United States make approximately 80% of the healthcare decisions for their families and represent 65% of the workforce. This session will lean into female leaders who are shaping the future of healthcare to advance access to care and improve health equity through digital health solutions as well as the critical role women play, whether as a patient, a clinician, or a caregiver.

A recent study showed in the United States, women make approximately 80% of healthcare buying and usage decisions and represent 65% of the healthcare workforce. Yet despite their influence as customers and employees, they are underrepresented in leadership positions.

The healthcare industry has traditionally been a male-dominant industry, especially at the executive and C-suite level. Yet with the emergence of digital health as healthcare intersects with technology – another male-dominated industry – there is a unique opportunity to shift this traditional composition of healthcare and technology leadership. Women are the primary health care decision makers, therefore they need to be heard: in the exam room to advocate for themselves as patients or as caregivers; in testing and pilots as an integral part of new innovations and technologies; and in the conference room to ensure diversity and inclusion among leaders and executives making decisions that impact not only them and their families, but millions of other women, families and communities.

COVID-19 has accelerated the need to make healthcare more accessible and convenient. The pandemic laid bare health inequities and exposed flaws in the U.S. healthcare system, especially for those residing in rural areas where there are fewer health care facilities, limited transportation options and lower socioeconomic status. The pandemic also deeply impacted women as healthcare decision makers. According to research from the Kaiser Family Foundation Women’s Health Survey, family caregiving responsibilities before and after the pandemic have largely fallen on women. The survey revealed that more than one in ten women reported they were caring for a family member who needed special assistance prior to the pandemic. Over one in ten women also reported that they have new caregiving responsibilities as a result of the pandemic. Because of the stress on women throughout the pandemic, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression have become more prevalent in women across nations (Johnson, 2021).

To ease the burden women face, we need to shift the way we deliver healthcare - especially mental health care - to increase access, reduce cost and improve outcomes. Enter digital health.

The future of healthcare is digital and with new innovations emerging and being adopted, we must ensure women have a seat at the table to provide critical insights, perspectives as consumers, and organizational leadership – as the industry develops and delivers new treatment modalities.

This session will shed light on why and how women are entering the field of digital health and what you should know about this emerging area of health innovation, with insights for your career and your health. Join us for a lively, enlightening chat with women who are pioneering digital health solutions, promoting health care equity, and carving out their space in the industry. Hosted by Big Health, a digital therapeutics company that aims to help millions back to better mental health.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the current healthcare landscape and current opportunity for women to improve the future of healthcare
• Discover innovative digital solutions in health care and what the future of healthcare may look like
• How to be an advocate for your and your family’s health
• Hear stories about the challenges, rewards and professional opportunities in digital health with examples from panelists in the field that can be applied to your unique situation, whether personal or professional

Tracks:

• Healthcare Education
• Professional Development

Topics:

• Workforce Development and Retention
• Healthcare access, delivery, and outcomes

Target Audience:

Mid Level

Presenters:

Celeste James, VP Equity and Population Health, Big Health (confirmed); Norma Day-Vines, PhD., Clinical Advisor, Hurdle Health (confirmed); Lygeia Ricciardi, Founder and CEO, AdaRose (confirmed); Claudia Huapaya, COO, Calibrate (invited), Johanna Shelton, Director Health Policy, Google (invited)

Celeste James, Vice President of Equity and Population Health at Big Health, is nationally-known for her work advancing health equity and reducing health disparities. At Big Health, she supports the company’s commitment to mental health equity and delivering positive health outcomes – regardless of ZIP code, race, gender, economic status, and other distinctions that cause marginalization and discrimination. Celeste supports efforts across the organization, including product design and development, research, marketing strategies and business operations.

Prior to joining Big Health, Celeste served as Executive Director of Community Health at Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States. There she led health care access programs, social impact investments, and policy advocacy to improve health and well-being among populations that experience inequities and injustice across Washington, D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia. Celeste oversaw various innovative and successful community initiatives addressing economic opportunity, housing, food security, land-use and zoning, and other critical social drivers of physical and mental health.

Her career began in media with leadership roles in corporate communications and media relations for national news outlets, including USA Today/Gannett Co., Inc., U.S. News & World Report, and National Public Radio (NPR).

Celeste served as a Commissioner on the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission, a governor appointed post, from 2014-2021. She also serves on nonprofit boards for Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers to advance equity in philanthropy, Crittenton Services of Greater Washington to help teen girls and young women achieve stability and life success, and Employ Prince George’s, supporting workforce development in Maryland. Celeste is a graduate of Leadership Greater Washington, Class of 2021.

Presenter: Shannon Bahrke Happe

How is your mental health and wellness?  How are you dealing with work burnout, persistent anxiety and constantly trying to navigate the unknown?  Are you experiencing an unhealthy work-life balance?  Unfortunately, each and every one of us are suffering from at least one of these, if not all of them.  The good news is that there are several effective tools and techniques you can implement to manage your stress, slow down time, increase your happiness and improve the quality of your life.

Through Shannon’s experiential presentation, she will guide you in practicing mindfulness and getting your body moving more throughout the day.  She has developed a formula called the Hourly 1, 1, 1, 57.  It includes 1 minute of conscious breathing, 1 minute of full body movement, and 1 minute of focused muscle relaxation so you can spend the remaining 57 minutes in that hour feeling more relaxed, more focused, more productive and have increased happiness!  If you can take 3 minutes for yourself whether you are sitting at your desk, on an airplane, in a hotel room, before a stressful situation, or when you need a mental break, you will feel the immediate positive impact it will have on your life!!

Presenter: Shannon Bahrke Happe

This 60-minute workout is for all physical ability levels and ages, with fun at the core.  Working out can be overwhelming and intimidating, which is why we ensure everyone comes away feeling energized and successful after this energizing workout.  We lead you through some of the same warmups, mobility, agility, and body-weight strength movements we did as Olympians, but at your own comfortable level.  We offer lots of options for leveling up OR down.  It’s empowering, fast-paced, informative and who knew an hour of exercise could go by so fast! 

Workout Includes:

Warm up

Dynamic stretching and mobility

Agility

2 - 6 min rounds of body-weight strength stations that focus on cardio, legs, arms, buns, back and abs

Group Challenge

Static stretching and cool down