The Institute of Accelerated Ascension™
Are you ready to capitalize on your strengths to achieve goals?
If so, then this will be the most important program you attend this year to level up your leadership.
Never has there been a more challenging time for physician leaders. You may be among the statistically alarming number of leaders who report a lack of professional fulfillment.
To cope with ever-growing risks of burnout in our profession, I crafted a coaching program specifically for individuals who want to thrive in the fast-paced world of modern healthcare.
To address underrepresentation of marginalized groups in leadership roles, I have crafted a coaching program specifically for high-performing, high-potential physicians who want to do much more than survive in the hectic and even chaotic world of modern healthcare.
The Institute of Accelerated Ascension is designed to help you thrive as you lead!
In the spirit of stepping up and addressing one of the most pervasive and urgent crises in healthcare - the absence of master physician leaders - the Institute of Accelerated Ascension will enhance your leadership skills by building on strengths you already have and by giving you essential tools to lead from a place of authenticity without conforming aspects of your identity (and still meet performance metrics!).
I know because I've been there. I've struggled with expanding my influence because I wasn't playing to my strengths. I've been unaware of which strengths are the best ones to bring to a meeting or a difficult conversation.
I've wondered how to practice reflexive, responsive-focused, emotionally stable "invincibility" in my leadership career by leveraging my strengths.
I've questioned why conforming, particularly to a non-inclusive 'standard' of leadership, was believed to be the way to feel a sense of belonging at work.
A coach helped me discover the key to being genuinely fulfilled and realizing my potential as the "Influencer in Chief" by optimizing my strengths.
THE KEY to maintaining a sense of personal joy and career satisfaction, when we can't always control what's happening, is to practice the way we respond to what's happening – that's where our power lies.
What is your desired goal as a leader?
Combination of "learning" with "doing" in a proven way
Coaching increases self-awareness, motivation, and the capacity to take effective action. Physician executive coaching aims to help you, the physician leader, balance your personal goals with your professional goals.
Using foundational coaching skills, executive coaching empowers doctors who wish to create more effective organizations by starting with increased self-awareness and positive change within themselves.
Within their professional goals, coaching helps physicians increase their leadership effectiveness. It addresses the optimal balance between focusing on results and focusing on building strong, healthy relationships with the people around them.
After all, professional growth is impossible without personal growth.
The Institute of Accelerated Ascension is an elite physician leadership curriculum designed to cultivate the most effective and successful leaders in modern medicine. There are twelve core themes – each with a dedicated module, a mixture of in-depth video overviews, interactive group sessions and a master-mind framework for peer support, as well as faculty-centric lessons, tips, and worksheets throughout the curricula.
It is an immersive doing experience to provide faculty leaders with foundational skill and development 'growthwork'.
Module 1 – TalkTail/Character Strengths
(Group Session: 90 min)
Interactive orientation and kickoff for the cohort to co-design guidelines of engagement.
Includes VIA Character Strengths Survey.
Module 2 – Knowing Your Why
(Group Session: 60 min)
Discover your purpose as a leader to focus efforts on what matters most, compelling you to take risks and push forward regardless of obstacles.
Module 3 – Conversational Competence
(Group Session: 90 min)
Hone the courageous skills of communication to advance the delivery of your message.
Includes DISC+ Assessment and report.
Module 4 – Values and Purpose
(Group Session: 90 min)
Connect to core values to stay anchored to what matters most.
Module 5 – Emotional Intelligence
(Group Session: 90 min)
Learn tips and tactics to boost your Social and Emotional Intelligence.
Module 6 – OPEN UP – Giving & Receiving Feedback
(Group Session: 90 min)
Learn to give and receive feedback to foster meaningful relationships.
Modules 1–6, empower today's faculty leader to create more effective organizations by starting with increased self-awareness and positive change within themselves.
Module 7 – Leadership Statement
(Group Session: 60 min)
Create an authentic, true, and optimistic statement to reframe the internal negative "story" with a potent, authentic, and true statement.
Module 8 – Stress Management, Self-Care, and Setting Boundaries
(Group Session: 90 min)
Gain an understanding of where your boundaries lie as a leader and work on boundary-setting strategies to bring positive results to your life.
Module 9 – Transforming Your Organization
(Group Session: 60 min)
Explore leading effective and transformational change.
Module 10 – Mentorship, Sponsorship, and Your Personal BoD
(Group Session: 60 min)
Examine your professional network to create a Board of Directors that will accelerate your leadership.
Module 11 – Designing Your Future
(Group Session: 60 min)
Create a clear vision for what leading will be like one year from now. Connect present self with future self.
Module 12 – Celebration
(Group Session: In-person, LIVE)
Celebrate the positive perspectives, experiences, and knowledge gained as a physician leader.
Modules 7–12, build on the skillsets and knowledge gained in the first six modules and further advance your leadership by employing an expansive master-mind framework enabling greater empowerment in the present and for creating an inspiring trajectory.
Entrust A Defining Moment of Your Leadership Journey to IOAA™
MPL Executive Coaches deliver a total immersion experience, it is therefore very important to note that securing your appointment to the Master Physician Leader's Board of Directors will allow for an advanced review of course materials, goals, objectives, expectations, and scheduling and helps participants optimize their results.
Take a look at exactly what is inside and secure your seat on the MPL Board of Directors.
The Institute of Accelerated Ascension™:
Benefits and Features Overview
Appointment to the Master Physician Leaders Board of Directors (MPL BoD)
– Virtual group coaching sessions facilitated by Certified Physician Executive Coaches
– Engaging format to provide high-achieving faculty leaders with a sense of belonging
– 12 Group Sessions (aka MPL BoD Meetings) to enhance learning and community-building
Additional features include:
• (6) Six one-to-one, 30-min executive coaching sessions/participant
• Pre- and Post- Abbreviated Self-Leadership Questionnaire (ASLQ)
• Talktail™ and Celebration
• Six (6) recorded modules
• Via Character Strengths Survey
• DISC+ Assessment and Report
• Continuing Medical Education (CME) units
As well as earning a Certificate of Completion, participants receive the highly prized MPL Wonderbox™, a one-of-a-kind, customized trove of exclusive, professional development and leadership resources, tactics, and perennial insights.
In support of advancing faculty leaders from underrepresented minority groups, this activity has been planned and implemented by Master Physician Leaders to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. A maximum of 26 AMA PRA CATEGORY 1 CREDITS™ can be earned. Participants should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
About Terri Malcolm
Terri Malcolm, MD, FACOG, MBA, CPE, PCC
Certified Physician Executive and ICF-Certified Physician Coach
Dr. Malcolm is zealous in her belief an exceptional experience in clinical care, the human(e) experience, is achievable through meaningful and authentic relationships with others.
She has served in C-suite executive positions, integrating people with process and purpose, and successfully aligning the ideas of the team with a compelling vision.
She is a Certified Physician Executive, an ICF-Certified Coach, and a board member of the American Association of Physician Leaders. Her coaching philosophy, The Malcolm Method™, is rooted in the principles of inclusive and strengths-based leadership, social and emotional intelligence, positive psychology, and supportive accountability.
Dr. Malcolm is in service to her colleagues – physicians serious about optimizing their leadership and wellness potential - to deliver actionable insights and propitious support. Physicians can experience joy and fulfillment in their clinical practice and their work environment. Through-thought provoking conversations, she strives to deepen the awareness of her physician clients and furthers their actions, thereby helping them to thrive as they lead.
Dr. Malcolm (known to friends and family as Terri) is a loving wife to her husband, Nate. Together they have three charming and athletic boys, Nathaniel, and twins, Roman and Colton.
"Dr. Terri Malcolm guided me in discovering my true strengths and how I can capitalize on these strengths. This is unlike any other coaching I have done. I appreciated how she did not tell me what I "should" do, but rather guided me to a place where I made my own decisions about next steps. By guiding me, I was able to make decisions that truly aligned with my strengths and core values. I feel comfortable continuing to lead from this genuine place that she helped me uncover."
Meghan Hampton, MD, MPH, MS
"Dr. Malcolm is knowledgable, articulate, thoughtful, and kind. Having been through the journey of a physician leader herself, she speaks from experience and with humility. She is a highly accomplished leader with an innate ability to listen deeply. Her ability to listen gives her the right to speak. Her knowledge and experience give her the right to teach. Her sense of humor makes her fun to work with and her executive presence is one of the best I have ever seen.”
Dr. G. Anton Decker, President, Mayo Clinic International
“My sessions with Terri have been so helpful - I really appreciate the insight, expertise, and space to brainstorm situations that arise in my leadership growth.”
Sarah Barnhard, MD, FCAP, FASCP
"Dr. Terri Malcolm has a unique way of helping us to see ourselves as we truly are and to gently point us in the direction of developing stronger leadership abilities.
I realize now that knowing one’s self is the first step in having better outcomes in relationships."
Charlene Blache, MD
“Terri helped me focus on my strengths and vision during a time when I felt pretty overwhelmed by life in general.”
Laura Patel, MD, FAAHPM
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