Includes bibliographical references and index.

Making the Case for Evidence-Based Leadership and Innovation --- Important Lessons Learned from a Personal Leadership, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Journey --- Understanding and Developing Yourself as a Leader --- Key Strategies for Optimizing Personal Health and Well-being: A Necessity for Effective Leadership --- Learning from a History of Great Leaders --- Forming and Leading a High-Performing Team --- Leading Organizational Change and Building Wellness Cultures for Maximum ROI and VOI --- Achieving the Quadruple Aim in Healthcare with Evidence-based Practice: A Necessary Leadership Strategy for Improving Quality, Safety, Patient Outcomes and Cost Reductions --- Healthcare Finance for Leaders --- Courtney Campbell-Saxton, and Alma Helping -- Healthcare Innovation : Bringing the Buzzword to Real World Healthcare Settings --- Emerging Trends in Healthcare Innovation --- Patient-Centered Innovation --- Positive Deviance : Advancing Innovation to Transform Healthcare --- Measuring Innovation and Determining Return on Investment (ROI) --- Design Thinking for Healthcare Leadership and Innovation --- Negotiating Complex Systems --- Entrepreneurship in Healthcare --- Identifying Opportunities to Innovate and Creating Your Niche --- Intrapreneurship, Business Models, and How Companies Make Money --- Legal Considerations in Starting a Healthcare Business --- Building and Pitching Your Plan --- Starting and Sustaining a Healthcare Business --- Key Strategies for Moving from Research to Commercialization  with Real World Success Stories --- LeveragingSocial Mediaand Marketingfor Professional Branding and Business Influence

"Evidence from numerous studies support that leadership and innovation are critical factors for organizational success and improved outcomes. Further, no change takes place and sustains without strong leadership. Although the United States spends more money on healthcare than any western world country, our health outcomes are poor. For example, the U.S. is the worst western world country for a women to give birth. Sick care continues to be the predominant paradigm and needs to be shifted to well care since 80 percent of chronic conditions can be prevented with healthy lifestyle behaviors. We also are living during a time when over 50 percent of clinicians are suffering from burnout, which is affecting the quality and safety of care. Solutions, including strong leaders and innovators, are urgently needed"-- Provided by publisher.