COMSEP Conversations about Leadership – March 2025

Please consider joining us for the ongoing series on leadership in medical education.

All COMSEP members are welcome.

COMSEP Conversations about Leadership are designed as informal sessions to:

• Create a diverse and inclusive community of shared experiences and growth
• Develop awareness of different leadership strategies, approaches and challenges
• Facilitate the application of leadership frameworks and theories to one’s own work.

Our March session will focus on the traits of inclusive leadership and how that fosters a community of belonging. We all want to be the most effective leaders possible and sometimes it is hard to “see” beyond what we usually do or the people around us are doing. This session will dive into actionable steps of inclusive leadership to make us more capable of bringing out talent from our diverse team members and making your professional career more rewarding with a better environment to produce quality care and education. We will learn from important aspects of inclusive leadership from the business world about how to create a culture of belonging through empathy and humility.

We are keeping to the promise of 15-30 minutes of prep time.

For the session:

Prework

• Read the article The Key to inclusive leadership: https://hbr.org/2020/03/the-key-to-inclusive-leadership (5 min)

Optional Reading/Video

• • The six signature traits of inclusive leadership-Thriving in a diverse new world: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/talent/six-signature-traits-of-inclusive-leadership.html (10min)
  • Inclusive leadership in the health professions and health professions education: Kusurkar BMJ Leader 2024;8:191-195. doi: 10.1136/leader-2023-000868. PMID: 38182413 (5min)
  • Optional Youtube video How to become an inclusive leader | Meagan Pollock, PhD | TEDxWolcottCollegePrep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MaFOGEPpOo  (12min)

During this 1-hour session, we will discuss the topic’s relevance and importance – and how it links to our work, COMSEP’s priorities, while highlighting important principles such as diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice.

We then plan to work in small groups sharing experiences and responding to prompt questions.

We hope that educators and administrators consider joining us for this and future engaging sessions on leadership.  Through your participation, we will learn from one another’s experience and expertise, and further advance COMSEP’s strategic priority of leadership development for all interested COMSEP members.

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Nicole Johnson

Mike Barone

Sherilyn Smith

Joe Gigante

Susan Bannister