About Leading for Impact

As an organizational leader in academic medicine, relying solely on past knowledge and experience may no longer be enough to navigate today’s evolving challenges. Success at this level requires a growth mindset, systems thinking, and the ability to lead collaboratively—aligning culture, strategy, and goals to drive meaningful change across your institution.

Leading for Impact is designed for faculty, professional, and administrative leaders who are ready to expand their leadership capacity and apply new approaches to complex organizational challenges. Through a contextualized, data-driven curriculum, participants explore practical strategies for influencing culture, guiding teams through change, and translating strategy into measurable results.

The program combines progressive learning experiences, reflection, and personalized coaching to equip leaders with the tools, insights, and confidence to lead authentically and effectively. By strengthening collaboration, alignment, and strategic implementation, Leading for Impact empowers leaders to make a lasting impact on their teams, institutions, and the broader academic medicine community.

What to Expect

Attending Leading for Impact will enable you to harness the expertise of the program’s faculty and fellow participants to tackle complex organizational challenges and opportunities.  Over three days, you’ll engage in a dynamic blend of skill enrichment, action-planning, applied learning, and collaborative sessions that will prepare you to immediately:

• Lead collaboratively to drive change at your institution.
• Align organizational culture to lead change initiatives.
• Apply a systems-thinking approach to decision-making and strategy implementation. 
• Discover techniques for influencing others and align goals with strategy.

Who Should Attend?

This program is open to faculty, professional and administrative staff. Representative titles may include, but are not limited to, Associate or Vice Dean, Center Director, Administrator, Department or Vice Chair, Designated Institutional Official, Executive or Senior Director, Division or Section Chief.

Participant responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, budgetary and strategic operational planning, the oversight of administration and accreditation, administrative leadership in areas of curriculum development, faculty development, performance and human resource management, and financial planning and management.

To register for and attend an AAMC meeting, you must be affiliated with an AAMC member institution, a non-profit medical education or professional organization, or a college or university.

CME and CPE credit will be available for eligible participants.

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Additional Information

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