Why Listen: You’re navigating complex systems and want practical insight into how real change happens—especially when it feels impossible.

How do we fix a system as complex and fragmented as healthcare? In this thought-provoking conversation, facilitator and health systems leader Anne-Marie Parent shares what it takes to shift from a command-and-control model to a living, evolving ecosystem. Drawing from her experience in health informatics, change management, and systems coaching, Anne-Marie explores how diverse perspectives, relationship-building, and courageous co-creation are essential for real transformation. For generalists navigating complex systems—within or beyond healthcare—this episode offers a masterclass in creating space for collaboration, letting go of control, and trusting the collective intelligence of the group. 

Key Highlights:  

• Paradigm shift: Why the healthcare system needs to be seen as an ecosystem, not a machine. 

• Relationship focus: The power of improving connections between people and organizations, not just optimizing individual parts. 

• Co-creation over control: How inviting diverse voices leads to more effective, lasting change than top-down strategy. 

• Generalist advantage: How systems thinking and facilitation skills intersect with the generalist mindset. 

• Letting go: The emotional and practical impact of detaching from outcomes in complex, long-term change work. 

About Them: 

Anne-Marie Parent is a leadership coach, educator, and transformation strategist who believes it's time for a new way of leading—especially in health systems. Her work centers on embracing complexity, fostering collaboration, and creating space for clarity, courage, and purpose. 

With over two decades of cross-sector experience in the public, private, and not-for-profit worlds, Anne-Marie helps individuals and organizations navigate uncertainty, untangle complexity, and co-create more regenerative ways of working—without burning out or losing sight of what matters most. 

Her approach blends systems thinking, change leadership, and deep human connection. She’s trained in Prosci change management, holds a Black Belt in Lean Healthcare, and is certified in systems coaching (ORSC) and flow-based leadership. Anne-Marie also teaches at the Telfer School of Management and recently took the TEDx stage to share her insights on systemic leadership. 

Whether she's coaching gifted professionals, designing culture-shifting programs, or facilitating multi-stakeholder collaborations, Anne-Marie is known for meeting people where they are—and helping them lead with integrity, clarity, and flow. 

Find Anne-Marie Here 

• LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/amparent/ 

• Website:  https://www.ampedupleadership.ca 

• Other links:   Check out her TEDx video https://youtu.be/JRBkjiL-sqo 

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• Visit our Website https://8ballclarity.com/  

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