As mentor in the national Public Health Education Leadership Institute, I get to interact with public health folks from all across the US, and work with them over the course of a year on developing leadership and systems-thinking skills. I feel really privileged to be involved with this project – every year a new great group of people to learn with!
Yesterday, while on a call with some of this year’s participants, in response to a comment I’d made about the year-long case study project each fellow takes on as part of the institute, someone joked, "Oh Hanna, we thought YOU’D have all the answers!"
Yeah, right!
Before specializing as a professional coach in 2004, I spent more than a decade in leadership, management and program development for state and local government and non-profit organizations. Now I get to help leaders and teams have more clarity and ability to stand up for what's important in their work and in their organizations. Working with me, leaders and teams find more meaning and purpose, feel happier and more confident, navigate change and conflict, and work together better.