Healthcare Leadership - Fall Cohort
Elevate your healthcare leadership with strategic tools, personal development, and a proven framework to better understand yourself, your team, and your business.
Next available course: Fall 2026
Classes Start 10/07/2026
Registration Open Until 10/07/2026
Course Overview
The Lead. Always. Certificate is a hybrid leadership program designed for professionals across all industries who want to sharpen leadership skills, improve team effectiveness, and drive organizational success.
Developed in partnership with the Hospital Association of Oregon, this program is also tailored to equip healthcare professionals with the leadership skills essential for success in supervisory and management roles. It provides tools to help emerging and experienced leaders navigate the complexities of today’s healthcare environment while also being highly relevant across business, technology, education, and nonprofit sectors.
The program begins with a two-day, in-person kickoff and continues with six online instructor-led modules over five months. This format balances flexibility with the benefits of peer collaboration and guided coaching. No prerequisites are required, making it accessible to both emerging leaders and experienced managers.
In-Person Kickoff (2 Days | 16 Hours)
- Explore leadership identity, strengths, and values.
- Map organizational strategy and audience needs.
- Identify leadership strengths and areas for growth.
- Create an Individual Development Plan (IDP).
- Assess team culture and dynamics.
- Use scorecards to track performance and strategic objectives.
Online Modules (Six, 3-week each)
- Emotional Intelligence & Self-Awareness– Understand EQ, identify strengths, and build an EQ action plan.
- Interpersonal Communication – Adapt communication styles and strengthen dialogue across contexts.
- Conflict Resolution – Learn negotiation, mediation, and active listening techniques.
- Inclusivity & Diversity – Build cultural responsiveness and turn inclusion into action.
- Problem-Solving & Leading Change – Apply tools like SWOT and root cause analysis; lead innovation and resilience.
- Team Development & Collaboration – Understand team stages, overcome barriers, and build trust-driven performance.
Audience
Open to professionals across industries, with a special focus on healthcare supervisors, managers, and emerging leaders preparing to take on leadership responsibilities.
Why Join?
This structured, supportive program helps leaders grow individually while learning from peers in a cohort model. For groups of 10 or more, customized corporate training is available.
For details and cohort pricing, contact us at cpe@oregonstate.edu or (541) 737-1500.
Course Format
The course kickoff includes a two-day in-person training followed by five months of Instructor-led week-to-week cadence, with assignments, discussion boards, and learning assessments (quizzes).
Price
$2640Course Details
Units 8 CEUs / 80 PDUs
Location Hybrid online and onsite Courses
Course Type Group-Paced
Next Available Course
Term Fall 2026
Classes Start 10/07/2026
Registration Open Until 10/07/2026
Register NowWhat You’ll Learn
After successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Recognize and develop their personal leadership identity.
- Communicate with clarity and empathy.
- Resolve conflicts constructively.
- Champion diversity and inclusivity.
- Apply structured methods for problem-solving and leading change.
- Build and sustain high-performing, collaborative teams.
Your Instructor
Instructor
John M. DeMarco, PCC, PHR, M.Div.
Across the past 25 years, John has proven that he can connect with and help anyone, anywhere—whether C-Suite executives, physicians, attorneys, family business owners, regional directors, people managers, or high-potential individual contributors—grow their leadership skills and achieve greater success.
John’s clients have spanned industries including accounting, automotive, construction, government, healthcare, hospitality, human resources, law, non-profits, physical therapy, real estate, retail, sales, technology, telecommunications, the U.S. Army, and wireless. He’s also held full-time roles in financial services, healthcare, non-profits, publishing, and telecommunications. While John is industry-and role-agnostic, tailoring every engagement to a client’s growth needs and desired outcomes, his niches are executive coaching, 360° feedback, leadership assessments, and facilitation.
His multidisciplinary mindset is fueled by expertise not only in coaching but also the Socratic Method, Human-Centered Design, and storytelling. It is seasoned by an ongoing fascination with the human condition through the nuances of AI, architecture, filmmaking, jazz, literature, mindfulness, mythology, philosophy, psychology, spirituality, and world history. A lifelong writer and a journalist in his early career, John’s authored three books, three screenplays, and ongoing thought pieces that he shares on LinkedIn and other domains.
John lives in Nashville, Tennessee, is married, and has three young adult daughters as well as one young adult and very mischievous orange tabby cat.