Building a Path to Leadership Excellence (14 CME)

Course Description

In today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, effective leaders must pause, reflect, take stock, adapt, and rise to challenges with courage, humility, and compassion. Throughout this course, you will be provided with tools and techniques to assist you in becoming more self-aware as the foundation for ensuring your own optimal engagement, effectiveness, and well-being. This course is grounded in the science of positive psychology, sports/performance psychology, and mindfulness. You will walk away with improved levels of personal insight and purpose to better lead yourself, others and your organization.

All course materials must be completed no later than 1 week after the last Zoom session.

Course Objectives

• Assess your energizers and de-energizers as well as your attractors and detractors
• Recognize unproductive patterns within yourself and how to respond more effectively
• Improve self-awareness by creating successful habits and patterns
• Enhance your humility through personal reflection and perspective-taking 
• Use mindfulness tools to increase self-compassion and self-care
• Allow space for creative solutions by becoming more comfortable amidst volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity
• Challenge yourself to act upon your “moral/ethical compass” to protect yourself and others as a person and a leader

Course Schedules 

May/June 2026 Session

Pre-work (begins 5/11/26)

(2) 1-hour virtual sessions:

Week 1: Wednesday, May 20, 2026, (1:00-2:00pm) (ET)

Week 4: Wednesday, June 10, 2026, (1:00-2:00pm) (ET)

August/September 2026 Session

Pre-work (begins 8/10/26)

(2) 1-hour virtual sessions:

Week 1: Wednesday, August 19, 2026, (1:00-2:00pm) (ET)

Week 4: Wednesday, September 9, 2026, (1:00-2:00pm) (ET)

November/December 2026 Session

Pre-work (begins 11/9/26)

(2) 1-hour virtual sessions:

Week 1: Wednesday, November 18, 2026, (1:00-2:00pm) (ET)

Week 4: Wednesday, December 9, 2026, (1:00-2:00pm) (ET)

February/March 2027 Session

Pre-work (begins 2/15/2027)

(2) 1-hour virtual sessions:

Week 1: Wednesday, February, 24, 2027, (1:00-2:00pm) (ET)

Week 4: Wednesday, March 17, 2027, (1:00-2:00pm) (ET)

May/June 2027 Session

Pre-work (begins 5/10/2027)

(2) 1-hour virtual sessions:

Week 1: Wednesday, May 19, 2027, (1:00-2:00pm) (ET)

Week 4: Wednesday, June 9, 2027, (1:00-2:00pm) (ET)

August/September 2027 Session

Pre-work (begins 8/9/2027)

(2) 1-hour virtual sessions:

Week 1: Wednesday, August 18, 2027, (1:00-2:00pm) (ET)

Week 4: Wednesday, September 8, 2027, (1:00-2:00pm) (ET)

October/November 2027 Session

Pre-work (begins 10/11/2027)

(2) 1-hour virtual sessions:

Week 1: Wednesday, October 20, 2027, (1:00-2:00pm) (ET)

Week 4: Wednesday, November 10, 2027, (1:00-2:00pm) (ET)

Disclaimer

The American Association for Physician Leadership is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Association for Physician Leadership® designates this Other/blended activity for a maximum of 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.