About Elevate Your Potential

Leadership in academic medicine extends beyond titles or positions—it requires the ability to influence others, create meaningful impact, and navigate complex challenges with confidence. As roles and responsibilities continue to evolve across the academic health system, developing core leadership skills is essential for professional success now and in the future.

As part of the AAMC’s CORE Leadership Development portfolio, Elevate Your Potential is designed for faculty, professional, and administrative staff who are ready to invest in their growth and expand their leadership capacity. This virtual program provides a structured and interactive learning experience that emphasizes evidence-based strategies in communication, collaboration, and emotional intelligence.

Through a combination of expert facilitation and peer-to-peer engagement, participants will strengthen their ability to work effectively with colleagues, foster team performance, and address the challenges of today’s academic medicine environment.

Need Institutional Approval? Make the Case for Attending

We understand that budgets and time away from work can be a concern, so we’ve created a template as a starting point to help you showcase the value of attending and showcase the return on investment – how your work, team, and institution will benefit from the learning insights and networking opportunities you’ll experience at the meeting.

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What to Expect

Through personal reflection, structured group work, case studies, and action planning sessions, participants will gain insights into:

• Forming their leadership identity: Discover your unique strengths and how self-awareness enhances leadership effectiveness. Engage in real-world scenarios to refine your leadership style and increase your capacity for impactful decision-making. 
• Building their leadership capacities: Authenticity drives effectiveness.  Learn to leverage your leadership abilities to influence others, regardless of title or tenure.  
• Realizing their impact: Everyone can shape processes, improve interactions, and drive positive change. Gain strategies to overcome institutional barriers and foster innovation.

Who Should Attend?

This foundational program is ideal for individual contributors aiming to enhance their skills, new and emerging leaders wanting to develop their leadership capabilities and experienced leaders who have not received formal leadership training. This program is well-suited for entry- and mid-level staff and new faculty less than two years into their role seeking to enhance their skills, leadership capabilities, and professional performance to achieve personal, team, or organizational goals. 

This program is open to faculty, professional, and administrative staff from across academic medicine and science.

Titles may include administrative assistant, advisor, analyst, assistant or associate director, assistant professor, coordinator, manager, instructor, lecturer, laboratory support, specialist, staff scientist, and others. 

Responsibilities may include providing administrative support for a department or unit, providing specialized skills or expertise on a particular function, academic advising/counseling, office or operations management, medical education, community liaison, human resource management, library operations, laboratory research/management, assessment/research, teaching, medical research, clinical practice, student and resident affairs professionals, development, and facilities.  

Learning Objectives

At program completion, participants will be ready to immediately:

• Establish themselves as credible leaders throughout their organization.
• Use effective communication strategies to build strong relationships. 
• Build trust and establish themselves as authentic leaders.
• Identify and remove barriers to initiative-taking leadership.

Additional Information

The AAMC is the sole source for current email and mailing lists of AAMC meeting attendees. The AAMC is aware of individuals and companies that may be aggressively marketing such lists, however, they DO NOT have access to AAMC attendee email and mailing lists. The AAMC has NO affiliation with such third parties. Please be vigilant if approached by any service other than AAMC regarding AAMC meeting attendee email and mailing lists.

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