HEALTHCARE
Healthcare organizations face increasingly complex and uncertain environments, where the ability to adapt is essential to ensure an effective and sustainable response. Adaptive Leadership, developed at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, offers a practical approach to fostering and sustaining transformative behaviors.
Our training programs help healthcare organizations develop distributed leadership practices that foster greater shared responsibility at all levels. Through Adaptive Leadership, healthcare professionals are equipped to tackle complex challenges related to values, behaviors, and resistance to change—ultimately enhancing the effectiveness and quality of care.
Case Study 1: Supporting Healthcare in Fully Realizing Its Mission
Client
Meyer Pediatric Hospital in Florence — one of Italy’s leading pediatric hospitals, known for its outstanding care and commitment to the personal and professional development of its staff.
Need
To offer staff at all levels, from executives to frontline workers, new opportunities for growth through training that goes beyond technical skills.
Work
OLI partnered with Meyer to establish a training center dedicated to delivering leadership development programs for all healthcare professionals.
Results
Satisfaction rate >90%
Over 150 doctors, healthcare workers, and managers trained
2 new partnerships launched with other hospitals for adaptive leadership training
Case Study 2: Rethinking Identity to Progress Into the Future
Client
Associazione La Nostra Famiglia
Need
In light of the challenges facing Italy’s healthcare system—including shortages in human, financial, and structural resources—there is a growing climate of uncertainty that affects the ability to safeguard public health. Addressing such complex challenges requires widespread, holistic training that fosters individual responsibility and enhances the value of human capital, ensuring that staff possess not only professional skills but also strong ethical grounding.
Work
OLI worked to foster a “leadership culture” starting from senior and middle management, promoting a shared understanding of leadership capable of inspiring transformative practices. The goal was to encourage models of work that promote mobilization, participation, and engagement, grounded in interprofessional and interpersonal collaboration.
Results
The promotion of a widespread leadership culture within the organization generated significant positive impact, including greater alignment with the organizational mission, increased sense of belonging and long-term motivation, and a more collaborative, cohesive environment across both central and satellite offices.
Satisfaction rate >80%
Participant Testimonials
“Excellent interaction and sharing during plenary sessions. Great insights into leadership. New inspiration for improving team management. Increased personal awareness of my own leadership potential.”
“Consistent and progressive prompts for personal and professional growth and reflection.”
“An interactive methodology that effectively conveyed content; both in plenaries and breakout groups, concrete and relevant adaptive challenges were explored.”
“A participatory training style that stimulated both individual and group reflection, allowing professional and personal aspects—inseparable in the exercise of leadership—to emerge.”
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