Contribute to Executive Diversity Career Navigator!
You are invited to lend your voice to EDCN and encourage aspiring healthcare leaders as they journey to senior management ranks. We have several easy ways for you to participate, requiring only a minimal amount of your time.
Many of the EDCN contributors are racially/ethnically or LGBTQ+ diverse healthcare executives who candidly share their own experiences and offer suggestions targeted to a comparably diverse audience. For more info and to participate, contact ACHE’s Career Resource Center at careers@ache.org; 312.424.9444. All questions and concerns can also be sent to diversity@ache.org with any questions.
Mentoring Minute
Your individuality empowers you, set a tone that confirms your purpose is the difference that makes a difference.
Fabian A. Stone, NAHSE National President, 2019-2021Diversity generates innovation, it produces inclusion, and it fosters a culture of authenticity. It compels us to remain genuine, challenges us to get comfortable with being uncomfortable, promotes varying perspectives and ideas and allows everyone to have a voice. I encourage you to celebrate your differences and to inspire others to do the same. Rolando Gomez, NALHE President & Chair, 2019-2021
“[Others] discouraged [discouraged me from] pursuing a medical career, largely because of my race and because I was a girl – a woman. They felt that there was no example of that that existed … However, I had great mentors, great parents, people who were so supportive who were still encouraging me to pursue a health care career.” - Dr. Kimberlydawn Wisdom, IFDHE Board Chairperson, 2020
Focus on building relationships, and attempt to form deeper understandings and connections with those in and around your network. In combination with grit and resilience, empathy and compassion will get you closer to goal and unleash your authentic brand of servant leadership. Ajith Pai, PharmD, FACHE, AHLF Chair, 2020-2021
Consistent with the ACHE healthcare executive competency domain, ‘professionalism’, executives have a responsibility to contribute to the development of our professional community. Mentoring members of historically underrepresented and excluded groups is one of the ways we can create organizations where all people can fully realize their potential.- Stephan Davis, DNP, FACHE, LGBTQ Forum Chair, 2020-21
