Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a highly customized 6-month Action Learning Program for Healthcare Leaders.
The action learning leadership development program focused on enhancing the skills and confidence of senior leaders who are required to build cross functional commitment, role model the desired culture, and translate functional strategies into effective actions.
The highly experiential and customized training program results were:
This fast growing healthcare client wanted to build leaders with greater self-awareness and better executive presence to increase business results, enhance team engagement, and better coach others to deliver at their full potential. Their challenge was to create enough relevance to compete with pressing priorities, clinical demands, staffing challenges, regulatory requirements, financial pressures, and constant change.
That is why an Action Learning Program for Healthcare Leaders can be more effective than relying on traditional leadership training alone. Instead of separating development from the realities of work, action learning ensures learning in the flow of work.
Why Action Learning Fits Healthcare Leadership
Action learning combines targeted leadership development with real business and clinical challenges. Leaders learn a relevant concept, apply it to an important workplace issue, reflect on what happened, receive feedback and coaching, and adjust their approach.
The result is a continuous cycle:
Learn ? Apply ? Reflect ? Adjust ? Apply Again
That matters in healthcare because leadership challenges rarely have textbook answers. Leaders must navigate and influence complex stakeholders, competing goals, interdependent teams, patient needs, and difficult trade-offs.
What the Healthcare Leadership Research Says
In a 2025 systematic umbrella review published in BMJ Leader, Juliette Phillipson and colleagues synthesized 86 reviews of healthcare leadership development programs, encompassing at least 1,659 unique studies. They found that more effective programs were associated with experiential and action learning, coaching or mentoring, multiple learning methods, longitudinal designs, goal setting, feedback, and tailoring development to participants’ needs and organizational context. The researchers also found that purely didactic approaches were less effective.
Our own training measurement research of 800 different training programs found an 80% failure rate for stand-alone training programs in terms of on-the-job adoption and impact.
For healthcare organizations, the implication is clear: leadership development should not be an event separated from the work. It should be embedded in the work itself. Action learning gives healthcare leaders the opportunity to build critical capabilities while solving meaningful organizational challenges — increasing both relevance and the likelihood that new leadership behaviors transfer to the job.
The highly customized 6-month Action Learning Program for Healthcare Leaders targeted key leaders who had a strategic role with a high level of responsibility to influence and drive results and complex strategies across multiple groups, functions, and teams.
Each leader met with a professional coach at the start, mid-point, and end of the program to explore insights from psychometrics, identify and track learning goals, explore real life application, reflect on learning, commit to action, and evaluate impact.
The core leadership action learning modules included:
The Bottom Line
If you want stronger healthcare leaders, do not make them choose between leadership development and getting their jobs done. Integrate the two. The best action learning programs create a disciplined environment where leaders tackle strategic challenges, practice critical behaviors, learn from peers and experts, and measure what changes back on the job.
Ready to accelerate the development of high-performing healthcare leaders? Download Build Better Leaders Faster with Just-in-Time Action Learning to discover how real business challenges can become powerful opportunities for faster leadership growth.
About LSA Global
Founded in 1995, LSA Global is a trusted performance consulting and training firm that helps high-growth technology, services, and life sciences companies turn strategy into measurable results. We partner with executive teams to build competitive advantage by aligning culture and talent with strategy — so individuals, teams, and organizations perform at their peak. Learn more about how organizational alignment drives performance.
Tristam Brown is an executive business consultant and organizational development expert with more than three decades of experience helping organizations accelerate performance, build high-impact teams, and turn strategy into execution. As CEO of LSA Global, he works with leaders to get and stay aligned™ through research-backed strategy, culture, and talent solutions that produce measurable, business-critical results. See full bio.
Jul 27,2026
0
Jul 09,2026
0
Feb 11,2019
13 K
Apr 18,2017
11 K
Nov 20,2016
6 K
Oct 02,2017
6 K
Explore real world results for clients like you striving to create higher performance
