Awareness of yourself and how you work with others is the path to greater leadership influence, personal and professional growth, and ultimate success. At the Center for Influential Leadership our powerful and practical learning experiences are tailored to your specific performance challenges. We help you develop the ability to act with awareness and intention, to respond to your performance challenges with greater confidence, and to create profound and positive change in your leaders, your people, to drive peak performance throughout your organization.
About Our Founder
Michael E. Frisina is an internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker, and author. He has developed leaders and organizational teams worldwide. Every year he speaks to national and international healthcare organizations, non-profit organizations and audiences as diverse as engineers to organ procurement organizations. He is a featured speaker for the American Hospital Association, The Joint Commission, and The South Carolina Hospital Association. His work in healthcare leadership, safety, and quality has been recognized by The Joint Commission in their publication, Doing the Right Things Right.
Dr. Frisina retired from the United States Army having served in The Medical Service Corps in a variety of positions of increasing responsibility throughout his career. He completed post-graduate studies at Cambridge University in England, served as a faculty member and subject matter expert in leadership and ethics at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and School of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.
Prior to entering civilian healthcare, Dr. Frisina served as consultant to the Army Surgeon General for medical research and development and to the Department of Defense Human Genome Project. He is a Visiting Fellow in Medical Humanities at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and a Visiting Scholar at The Hastings Center.
He is the author of “Influential Leadership – Change Your Self, Change Your Organization, Change Health Care.” The book is available at American Hospital Association Press and other online retail outlets. You can purchase copies online at the following site – http://www.healthforum.com/healthforum/html/books/print/InfluentialLeadership.html
Dr. Frisina will serve on the Business Intelligence Board for Chief Learning Officer Magazine in 2012. Additionally, he was the most read contributing author to Hospitals and Health Networks Magazine for 2009. H&HN is the flagship publication of the American Hospital Association and the most trusted and credible management publication in the field. It is the leading publication for hospital and system executives, and it continues its history of journalistic excellence by capturing more national editorial and design awards than any other health care management magazine.
Dr. Frisina has been selected to serve on the South Carolina Hospital Association “Safe Surgery 2015″ leadership team. This initiative continues to be one of our major quality improvement and patient safety programs that has the full support and endorsement of our SCHA Board and Quality Council in partnership with Dr. Atwul Gawnde and the World Health Organization. This program was developed to assist all SC acute care hospitals in the effective application of the WHO surgical safety checklist and the training of surgical teams to effectively use crew resource management (CRM) team-based communication in all surgical cases and settings.
“…we could all use a good dose of Michael Frisina.” – Pee Dee AHEC of South Carolina
