Registration

Leadership Academy Virtual Series

  2-part VIRTUAL SERIES 

Wednesday, September 9 & Wednesday, September 16, 2026
 

8:30 am - 12:30 pm CT  (for all dates)
 

Registration Deadline: August 12^th

Fee:

RWHC Member & Affiliate Member:
$350 per person

Non-RWHC Member:
$420 per person

Fee includes required program booklet to be shipped directly to participants.

Please Note: We request that you participate from your own computer, and use a webcam. This will allow you to participate in the breakout group discussions that are an important part of the learning experience.

  TARGET AUDIENCE:

   All healthcare managers, leaders and supervisors, both experienced and new in their role

  INSTRUCTOR:

Angelina Salazar Chief Executive Officer, Western Healthcare Alliance Angelina is the Chief Executive Officer of WHA and its affiliated companies. Working with the Board of Directors, key stakeholders, and the executive management team, she establishes long-range goals, strategies, plans, and policies for the overall benefit of rural healthcare in Colorado and eastern Utah. She joined the WHA team in May 2016 to lead marketing and communications programs. In January 2019 she was named CEO after stepping into the interim role in July 2018. Please read Angelina’s full bio here.

The Reality-Based Leadership Program is founded in our research which proved that a tremendous hit to any organization’s bottom line is waste – more specifically, the emotional waste of drama. Emotional waste shows itself as resistance to change, entitlement mentalities, complaints about workload, over-dependence upon management, lack of nimbleness and adaptation, and using circumstances or the environment as excuses for missed goals.

Emotional waste erodes business cases for new implementations, slows growth of organizations, and drains much of the margin on even the best business concept. And yet, most financially-minded leaders and investors ignore the incredible opportunity to reduce emotional expenses in favor of more concrete reductions in spending on expenses.

As with any waste, the best way to reduce that waste is through implementing great processes and engaging great people. Reality-Based Leadership provides leaders with the competencies necessary to change the mindsets of their teams, teach great mental processes that eliminate emotional waste of drama while ensuring top engagement and accountability. The RBL philosophy isn’t just about raising morale, but about turning talent into productivity. The philosophy truly captures the value that leaders can bring to the organization and ensures that value is visible throughout the organization.

The learning objectives of the Reality-Based Leadership Program offerings are to help leaders become fluent in proven techniques and strategies to:

• Conserve team energy and direct leadership resources to issues with the highest
  possible ROI

• Reduce stress and conflict in their own life and the lives of their teams

• Enhance engagement and accountability of human resources

• Utilize development opportunities to enhance the capabilities of their talent

• Avoid the most common things leaders do to create barriers to their own change efforts

• Understand the new employee value equation - the way in which employees truly add value in the workplace

• Understand and be able to use a new metric for assessing talent based upon the value the employee adds to the organization as a whole, including emotional expensiveness

• Enhance the leaders’ ability to hire, coach and reward those who can truly impact the mission of the business

• Learn simple yet powerful strategies to help employees move from a mentality of learned helplessness to personal accountability

• Understand the key elements of development and coaching along with many strategies
  for fast-tracking the development of future and diverse leaders

• Build a performance expectation of “thrivability” for each employee

• Gain fluency in strategies to rally teams to align willingly to organizational goals

• Learn to utilize a variety of Fast Track tools of to move through resistance and begin problem-solving