Teri Fontenot's Opening Keynote: Transforming The Role Of Women In Healthcare http://bit.ly/MHwomenleaders12

1. Lead Sponsor
Luncheon Sponsor Reception Sponsor Refreshment Sponsor

2. KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Teri Fontenot
President and CEO
Woman’s Hospital

3. Transforming the Role
of Women in Healthcare
Women Leaders in Healthcare Conference
August 7, 2012

4. Expectations

5. The New Woman’s

6. Women in Healthcare Leadership
78% of the healthcare workforce
Executive/senior leadership positions:
Health system CEOs 25%
Nurses 60%
Hospitals 54%
Pharmaceutical/medical manufacturing 29%
Medical equipment/supplies 21%

7. Healthcare is Rapidly Transforming
• Changing demographics
• Shift to value-based payment
• Accountability for cost and quality of care throughout the
continuum
• Transparency
• Declining payments
• New technology
• Difficulty in raising capital
• Federal and state reform and legislation

8. Leadership vs. Management
• Leaders lay the track
• Managers make sure the trains run on time
• Leaders are thermostats
• Managers are thermometers
• Leaders thrive on change
• Managers attempt to maintain a steady state

9. Why Are Women
Uniquely Positioned to Lead?
• Relationships among executives, physicians and
patients are evolving
• Women naturally possess skills to obtain desired
results:
Nurturers Effective communicators
Multitaskers Collaborators
• Transformational vs transactional leadership styles
are more effective
• Diversity improves decision making “I’m a daughter-in-law, a
wife, mom to three kids and
you’re asking me if I can
• Advanced degrees earned by women provide multitask?
competitive credentials

10. How Do Female Executives
Navigate the Obstacles?
• Believe in yourself
• Develop yourself
• Develop others
• Forgive yourself
Motherhood Memo to Marissa Mayer:
Parenting Skills Provide and Edge in the Workplace

11. Leading in Challenging Times
• Be prepared to address the immediate while
articulating the vision
• Cultivate your paranoia
• Understand that we live in a fishbowl
• See with a microscope and a telescope
• Stay grounded

12. From the Executive Suite to the Board Room
• Obtain line experience
• Fill in knowledge gaps
• Package yourself
• Consider smaller local companies or non-profit boards as stepping stones
• Be realistic about the time you have to commit
• State your governance goal to others and ask for advice
• Network with current board members
• Get to know consultants/headhunters who specialize in board searches
• Expect the nominating committee to include women in the slate of
directors
• Ask senior executives in all industries if there is a woman
on the board of directors
Lynn Shapiro Snyder, WBL Founder and President, and
Health Care Practice Leader, Epstein Becker & Green, PC

13. When storms approach, some
build big walls, while others
build big windmills
Old Chinese proverb