Below you will find registration links for upcoming leadership workshops, materials and recordings from past workshops, as well as other resources and programs to support your growth as a leader, wherever you are in your career path.
Leadership Workshops
Leading Change
October 21, 2025
9-11am | Zoom
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Identify Kotter’s 8-step change management framework, apply these steps to your personal change initiative, and learn how to overcome roadblocks and obstacles in your efforts to create and sustain a change initiative.
Strategies for Effective Communication
December 2, 2025
9-11am | Zoom
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In this interactive workshop learn the different types of communication, practice approaching a difficult discussion with a case study, and recognize biases and patterns in human behavior that may impact communication success.
Walking Through Conflict
February 3, 2026
9-11am | Zoom
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Review tools and strategies for working through interpersonal conflicts in the workplace. Learn about your own personal approach to conflict and communication, and set ground rules and intentions for difficult conversations.
Clear is Kind: Giving Feedback with Confidence and Compassion
April 30, 2026
9-11am | Zoom
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In this interactive session, participants will explore evidence-based strategies for giving clear, respectful, and growth-oriented feedback. We’ll address common pitfalls, discuss feedback across power dynamics, and offer practical tools to support psychological safety while holding others accountable.
Past Leadership Series Workshops
Leadership Series: How to Be an Effective Mentor/Sponsor
How to Be an Effective Mentor or Sponsor slides by Nisha Bansal, MD, MAS and David Horne, MD, MPH
View the full workshop recording here
Materials
Communication style inventory
Mentoring compact example
Template – compact for developing shared expectations
Walking Through Conflict
Slides – Walking Through Conflict 2025
Click here to view the February 4, 2025 workshop recording by Sara Kim, PhD, and Marie Vrablik, MD, MCR
Leading Change
Leading Change slides by Lauge Sokol-Hessner, MD, CPPS
View the workshop recording here.
Creating High Performing Teams
Creating High Performing Teams Slides by Keri Nasenbeny, RN, MHA and Trish Kritek, MD, EdM
View the workshop recording here.
Strategies for Effective Communication
Strategies for Effective Communication Slides by Giana Davidson, MD, MPH and Anne Browning, PhD
View the workshop recording here.
Rising Leaders Course
UW School of Medicine Rising Leaders is a course designed to bring practical leadership skills to School of Medicine faculty who are new to leadership or aspiring to new leadership roles, as well as help build connections and community across our system. We created this program to develop leadership skills across the School of Medicine and to help our faculty thrive in new leadership roles.
Organizations
WSHA (Washington State Hospital Association) 2022 LEAD Academy
This year, the Washington State Hospital Association is offering the LEAD Academy virtually only. In the virtual option, you can participate in the LEAD Academy remotely from your computer or tablet. Before signing up, please check to see if you have a computer, tablet or phone that meets the minimum technical requirements.
The Virtual LEAD is offered through the Zoom platform. Because Internet and technical options can sometimes be better at home or at work, courses are offered first thing in the morning and towards the end of the day. This will allow participants the flexibility of either taking the course at home or at work before or after their work day.
There are 12 modules in total and each module in the virtual option is 2 hours and 30 minutes long. Each module is offered live with a facilitator so that you can work with other participants to deepen your leadership skills. Pre-recorded, also called asynchronous, training is not available. To participate you must be available during the scheduled times.
- Improve the performance of the people and groups that report to them
- Enhance their contribution to the achievement of facility and system objectives
- Increase their own self management skills during everyday and stressful situations
Organizational Development and Leadership
Courses include the extraordinary leader and other skills for those taking management and leadership roles
POD (Professional and Organizational Development)
POD offers a variety of classes, webinars, and programs designed to support adult learners in building knowledge, skills, and abilities
UW HR Consulting Alliance
UW Consulting Alliance is a small team of trainers, consultants, and administrative professionals whose mission is to foster positive change in individuals and organizations at UW. They partner with organizations across the University by providing training, coaching, and consulting to leaders, staff, and faculty.
National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity
The University of Washington is an institutional member of the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD). As a member, you have on-demand access to the mentoring, tools, and support you need to thrive in academia. Resources are for everyone from graduate students to mid-career faculty to administrators.
You can sign up for weekly email updates or join as a member to access all of the tools and resources for free. Learn more here.
Articles
Time Management and Organization
The Art of Productivity article
Time Management slides by Puneet Bhargava, MD and Inbox Zero slides by Mimi Cabrera, MD
Watch the full recording of the January 9, 2025 Time Management and Organization workshop here.
Conflict Management for Program Directors
This article provides a practical approach to conflict management for residency and/or fellowship program directors.
Teaching Conflict Resolution in Medicine
This article discusses lessons from business, diplomacy, and theatre in teaching conflict resolution in medicine, from the MedEd Portal.
Culture Change
From the Harvard Business Review, this piece provides information on how to create culture change that sticks.
Sponsored Programs
AAMC Early Career Women Faculty Leadership Development Seminar
Each year, the Dean's Committee on Women in Medicine and Science sponsors one or two early career women faculty members to attend this program developing skills for assistant professors.
AAMC Mid-Career Women Faculty Leadership Development Seminar
Each year, the Dean's Committee on Women in Medicine and Science sponsors one mid-career woman faculty member to attend this program geared towards associate professors.