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Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Karl Pister

168 episodes

5 days ago

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Scott Ellner, a former trauma surgeon who now leads physicians as president of Integris Health Medical Group in Oklahoma City. We start with a life-changing moment on the Pacific Coast Highway, in southern California, when Scott is a 21-year-old surfer and witnesses a Harley-Davison motorcycle accident. A trauma surgeon pulls over, places a breathing tube in the middle of the highway, and saves a life. That single act changes the entire direction of his ca...

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In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Scott Ellner, a former trauma surgeon who now leads physicians as president of Integris Health Medical Group in Oklahoma City. We start with a life-changing moment on the Pacific Coast Highway, in southern California, when Scott is a 21-year-old surfer and witnesses a Harley-Davison motorcycle accident. A trauma surgeon pulls over, places a breathing tube in the middle of the highway, and saves a life. That single act changes the entire direction of his ca...

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Self-Improvement

Episodes (20/168)

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 163: Wipe Out, Rise Up with Dr. Scott Ellner

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Scott Ellner, a former trauma surgeon who now leads physicians as president of Integris Health Medical Group in Oklahoma City. We start with a life-changing moment on the Pacific Coast Highway, in southern California, when Scott is a 21-year-old surfer and witnesses a Harley-Davison motorcycle accident. A trauma surgeon pulls over, places a breathing tube in the middle of the highway, and saves a life. That single act changes the entire direction of his ca...

5 days ago

48 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 162: Kindness and Real Productivity with Graham Allcott

In this episode of the Healthcare Leadership Excellence podcast, I sit down with author Graham Alcott to explore why kindness is not soft—it is a driver of real performance. Graham is known worldwide for Productivity Ninja, but his newest book, Kind, looks at how trust, truth, and grace fuel team effectiveness. Graham shares the moment in Rome where an audience of investment bankers asked about the secret to his success. His answer surprises even him: “When you are kind, you win.” That spark...

1 week ago

55 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 161: Bespoke Human Potential with Curtis McCullom

In this episode of the Healthcare Leadership Excellence podcast, I sit down with coach and podcaster Curtis McCullom to dig into human potential—what really changes behavior and how leaders can reach flow on purpose. Curtis shares his path from 35+ years in financial services to coaching with hypnotherapy, NLP, and Mental & Emotional Release (MER). We clear up myths about hypnosis, talk about the conscious vs. subconscious split, and look at why language shapes state, which shapes behavio...

2 weeks ago

39 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 160: Performance Science for Leaders with Dr. Carla Fowler, MD PhD

In this episode of the Healthcare Leadership Excellence Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Carla Fowler, MD PhD, a performance coach with a medical and research background, to break leadership into four practical buckets: strategy, execution, mindset, and biology. We talk about ten-minute strategy, why dialogue beats top-down directives, how capability, visibility, and influence drive execution, and why biology sets the floor for performance. We also get into how great leaders think: when to trust ...

3 weeks ago

44 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 159: The Phoenix Blueprint with Dr. Emma Jones

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Emma Jones, author of The Phoenix Blueprint and a triple-boarded hospice and palliative care physician in Boston. She brings clear, road-tested practices that work for clinicians in the trenches. Dr. Jones shares her story of hitting burnout a dozen years into practice and how she builds her way back without gurus or gimmicks. We unpack a core distinction: intention vs. attachment. Set a clear aim, hold the plan with an open palm, and pivot when Flight 27...

1 month ago

48 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 158: A Mini-MBA on EOS with Mike Urness

In this episode, I sit down with my longtime colleague and EOS Implementer Mike Urness for a practical walk-through of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS)—a framework that helps leaders run their organizations with clarity and consistency. We unpack the six key components of EOS, focusing on the Vision section and its eight questions: core values, core focus, long-term target, marketing strategy, 3-year picture, 1-year plan, 90-day rocks, and issues. Mike explains how to identify true...

1 month ago

42 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 157: Preventing Burnout Before It Starts with Oli Johnson

In this episode of the Healthcare Leadership Excellence Podcast, I’m joined by Oli Johnson, founder of PrescribeLife.AI and a technologist dedicated to preventing burnout and building resilience through innovation and culture. Drawing from his own leadership journey, Oli shares how AI, data, and organizational design can work together to help leaders create healthier, more sustainable teams. He discusses how technology, when developed with empathy, can reduce the hidden workload behind burno...

1 month ago

42 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 156: The EQ Prescription with Dr. Mickey Lebowitz

In this episode of the Healthcare Leadership Excellence Podcast, I’m joined by Dr. Mickey Lebowitz, a board-certified endocrinologist with 40 years of clinical practice and author of The EQ Prescription. Dr. Lebowitz shares how emotional intelligence, often dismissed as a “soft skill,” is actually grounded in science and vital for preventing burnout, strengthening resilience, and improving patient care. He presents his framework called the “EQ Zone,” which combines emotional intelligence wit...

1 month ago

37 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 155: Reducing EMR Burden with AI with Ghazenfer Mansoor

In this episode of the Healthcare Leadership Excellence Podcast, I’m joined by Ghazenfer Mansoor, Founder and CEO of Technology River, a healthcare software development firm specializing in HIPAA-compliant applications and AI integration. Ghazenfer shares what it means to build solutions at the intersection of compliance, innovation, and clinical usability, and why trust, not just encryption, is the true core of HIPAA. He talks about the burden physicians face with electronic medical records...

2 months ago

36 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 154: Love, Forgiveness, and the Work of Leadership with Julio Martinez-Clark

In this episode, Julio Martinez-Clark joins me to talk about how love, forgiveness, and unity can shape leadership especially when the work is hard. As CEO, author, and healthcare entrepreneur, Julio brings both global experience in telecom and a deep perspective from building his own company in healthcare. We start with his journey from Colombia to the U.S., his engineering and MBA background, and how mentors and books like Power vs. Force and A Course in Miracles reshaped how he thinks abo...

2 months ago

43 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 153: Conflict Reimagined with Ursula Taylor

In this episode, I sit down with Ursula Taylor, former commercial litigator and founder of Conflict Reimagined, to unpack why most of us avoid tough conversations and how to handle them with clarity, courage, and control. Ursula draws a straight line from results to human emotion: every dispute sits on top of fear, pride, scarcity, or insecurity. The work starts inside (observing yourself, noticing the physical cues (tight jaw, hunched shoulders), and releasing the charge) so you can show up ...

2 months ago

49 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 152: AI as a Renaissance for Healthcare with Prof. Linda Macomber

In this episode, I sit down with Professor Linda Macomber, a pioneer at the crossroads of healthcare and technology. From her early days as an ICU nurse to becoming a HIMSS Life Fellow and professor, she’s spent four decades showing what’s possible when curiosity meets preparation. For Linda, AI isn’t a threat. It’s a renaissance. We talk about why she built the Renaissance Health Resource, a living library of tools, case studies, and digital health innovations designed to help students and p...

2 months ago

41 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 151: Why Patients Deserve More with Dr. Kamaljit Kaur

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Kamaljit Kaur, a physician who decided the system wasn’t working for her or for her patients and had the courage to build something different. Instead of accepting the limitations, she opened a membership-based practice where prevention and relationship come first. We talk about the reality of “swimming without floaties”, what it takes to step out on your own, the financial risks, and the grit required to keep going when the pressure is heavy. Dr. Kaur sh...

2 months ago

31 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 150: Compassionate Accountability with James Dismond

In this episode of the Healthcare Leadership Excellence Podcast, I’m joined by James Dismond, President and CEO of MiraSol Health. James shares what it is like to step into executive leadership at a young age and lead an organization that grew from serving 40 patients a day to more than 200. He talks about the challenge of guiding a five-generation workforce and why leadership begins with active listening. James explains the difference between checking in and checking up and how leaders must ...

3 months ago

47 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 149: Leading Teams to Their Full Capacity with Ernesto Gómez

In this episode, Ernesto Gómez joins me to talk about unlocking the untapped potential in your team and why most leaders leave 40% of it unused. As former CHRO for a $9 billion company with 83,000 employees, Ernesto brings decades of experience leading across the Americas. We start with the story that connected us: the book Endurance and Ernest Shackleton’s legendary ability to pivot when the plan no longer worked. That same adaptability, Ernesto says, is essential for leaders today. We cov...

3 months ago

46 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 148: The First 90 Days of Leadership with Neil Marshall and Kurt Mosley

In this episode of the Healthcare Leadership Excellence Podcast, I’m joined by two seasoned pros, Neil Marshall and Kurt Mosley, who have spent decades interviewing and placing thousands of healthcare executives across the country. What they’ve uncovered is this: the first 90 days of leadership matter. A lot more than we often realize. Now, you might be thinking, “Karl, I’ve been in my role for five years, this doesn’t apply to me.” But here’s the challenge I’d offer: what if your next 90 day...

3 months ago

50 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 147: The Innovation Blueprint with Dr. Chika Oriuwa

In this episode of the Healthcare Leadership Excellence Podcast, I welcome back Dr. Chika Oriuwa, physician, poet, keynote speaker, and author of Unlike the Rest: A Doctor’s Story. She joined us just a few months ago, and we knew right away we’d need to bring her back. This conversation gets to the core of something many leaders quietly struggle with: why soft skills feel so hard and why they matter more than ever. Chika walks us through what she calls “the hard science behind the soft skil...

3 months ago

41 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 146: Problem-Solving Starts with People with Artuğ Acar

In this episode, I speak with Artuğ Acar, a mechanical engineer, startup advisor, and former executive at Amazon Robotics, RightHand Robotics, and Mercury. Artuğ was named one of Business Insider’s top 10 leaders transforming North America, and after this conversation, it’s easy to see why. Artuğ shares how leadership and problem-solving intersect and why your ability to build trust will always matter more than technical brilliance. He explains that the best leaders don’t need to be the smar...

4 months ago

48 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 145: Leadership in the New Office Era with Micah Remley

In this episode of the Healthcare Leadership Excellence Podcast, I sit down with Micah Remley, CEO of Robin, for a conversation that hits right at the heart of what so many leaders are wrestling with: the workplace. Not just the policies. The experience. Micah leads the country’s top workplace management platform, and he brings a mix of data, practicality, and lived leadership that makes this episode one of the most relevant we’ve had this year. We talk about: Why “hybrid” is still a fuzzy te...

4 months ago

32 minutes

Healthcare Leadership Excellence

Episode 144: Letting Go to Lead with Shandy Welch

In this episode of the Healthcare Leadership Excellence Podcast, Shandy Welch returns to unpack one of the most powerful and personal leadership ideas we’ve explored yet: Shedding is not optional for growth. It’s essential for survival. Shandy shares what it really means to let go, not just in theory, but in practice. From releasing a 25-year professional identity as a nurse practitioner to navigating institutional resistance to change, this conversation is both deeply personal and strategic...

4 months ago

40 minutes