In a work environment where micro-management, devaluing of workers, and even bullying run rampant, it’s no wonder professionals today are more disengaged than ever. They do not feel their perspectives are being heard or their expertise valued, leading to a slow erosion of organizational culture, which only contributes to more disengagement.  Read More >

It’s a vicious circle, and it’s causing negative impacts on organizations of all kinds, from stifled innovation to costly turnover to loss of customer and social confidence. So, who is responsible for fixing it?

The leaders, of course!

With deep insights drawn from his 53-year career as a healthcare executive and leadership consultant, Dr. Roger A. Gerard explains how leaders can bring passion and drive back to their demotivated professionals using time-tested approaches such as:

• Empathetic listening, with an expectation that their opinions will be influenced by their employees
• Respecting the autonomy of their professionals to follow their intuition
• Providing the tools, resources, and guidance professionals need to achieve their most ambitious dreams

As a leader, do you have the courage to confront the challenges in your organization and the compassion to respect and recognize the professionals with work in it? Read Less ^

As a leader, do you “own the room”? Are you an “extraordinary leader”? Read More >

In Owning the Room, Dr. Roger A. Gerard draws on his more than 45 years of leadership experience, both successes and mistakes, to explore these questions and reveal how leadership must be cultivated. Leadership is not for amateurs! It must be learned on the ground, by being a leader, and doing the hard work of leading others. Frankly, it’s the only way. In this book, Dr. Gerard serves as your holistic leadership coach and mentor – a voice that has been there, done that, and is still learning many years later.

Owning the Room is segmented into three parts – Leadership Action as Intention, Making it Happen, and Deepening the Learning – and focuses on three fundamental dynamics of leadership:

1. Inspiring the mind through knowledge,
2. Inspiring the heart through care,
3. Inspiring purpose through accomplishment and humility along the way.

Owning the Room details not only the "how to's" of ideal leadership, but also goes in-depth about what must happen when things go wrong. Effective leaders inspire people to hope, to focus on the possible, and to rise beyond. Take the keys in this book to own your room. Read Less ^

Part case study, part manifesto, this groundbreaking  book by a doctor and a healthcare executive uses real-life anecdotes and the logic of lean thinking to make a convincing argument that a revolutionary new kind of healthcare — lean healthcare — is urgently needed and eminently doable. Read More >

In On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the Industry John Toussaint, MD, former CEO of ThedaCare, and Roger A. Gerard, PhD, candidly describe the triumphs and stumbles of a seven-year journey to lean healthcare, an effort that continues today and that has slashed medical errors, improved patient outcomes, raised staff morale, and saved $27 million dollars in costs without layoffs. Toussaint and Gerard prove that lean healthcare does not mean less care. On the Mend shows that when care is truly re-designed around patients, waste and errors are eliminated, quality improves, costs come down, and healthcare professionals have more time to spend with patients, who get even better care. Read Less ^