innovative leadership at a growing company by susan salka at engage 2016
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Innovative Leadership at a Growing Company
Susan Salka
President, CEO, Director
AMN Healthcare
The Innovator in
Healthcare Workforce Solutions
& Staffing Services
What Is Innovative Leadership?
An Approach: combines different leadership styles to influence and
create ideas, products, and services
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Ideas Products Services
Today’s Topics
• Make it Personal
• Your Board of Directors
• Courage
• Participate
• Planting Seeds
• Keeping it Simple
• Perseverance
• Opening Doors
• Capturing Hearts
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Make It Personal
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• Connect on a personal level
• Humanize your interactions
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Your Personal Board of Directors
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“The only
source of knowledge
is experience.”
Albert Einstein
People that push you forward
Those who give you confidence
Courage
• Dare to imagine
• Progress means moving outside
of the comfort zone
• Doing what is not obvious or easy
“Action breeds
confidence and
courage.”
Dale Carnegie
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Participate
• If you’re going to show up, participate
• Make thoughtful contributions
• Know when to listen
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Planting Seeds
1980sTravel Nurse
American Mobile Nurses: a founding company
1990sNurse and Allied Expansion
American Mobile Healthcare, MedicalExpress
2000 – 2006Physician, Allied, Nurse and Search Expansion,
NursesRx, Preferred Healthcare Staffing,
O’Grady Peyton, RN.com, Merritt Hawkins,
Staff Care, MedTravelers
2007 – 2008Pharmacy and Allied Expansion
RxPro, Platinum Select
2009 – 2013Workforce Solutions: MSP, RPO and VMS
MedFinders, ShiftWise
2014 – 2015Predictive Modeling, Scheduling, Avantas,
MillicanSolutions, The First String Healthcare
Onward Healthcare, Locum Leaders, Medefis
2016B.E. Smith
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Keep It Simple
Cows
Chickens
’Taters
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Perseverance: The Fuel of Progress
Two kinds of people
“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of
success but because the act of striving is in itself
the only way to keep faith with life.”
Madeleine Albright
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Winners Whiners
Opening Doors
• Building each other up
• Giving back
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Capturing Hearts
"In our hearts we
know what matters.”
George Bush,
Inaugural Address
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Summary
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Make it Personal
Your Board of Directors
Courage
Participate
Planting Seeds
Keeping it Simple
Perseverance
Opening Doors
Capturing Hearts
What Innovations Will You Have?
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Ideas
The Innovator in Healthcare Workforce Solutions and Staffing Services
Thank You