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The Health Leadership Program Opportunity

The Health Leadership Program is designed to transform good managers into great leaders through intense classroom activity and participatory sessions, team action-learning projects and peer-to-peer exchange.

Curriculum Topics Include:

• Communication inside and outside of the organization
• Creating and managing effective boards of directors
• Creating effective networks
• Decision making
• Delegation and time management
• Financial decision making
• Negotiation

• Organizational culture
• Policy and advocacy
• Team development
• Values-based planning
• Working collaboratively with peers
• Work-life balance

Who Should Apply?

The program is designed for current and potential executives of health-related nonprofit organizations or public agencies. Sierra Health defines health broadly and generally considers most human-service agencies as health-related. Preferred participants will be in management roles and will have a strong commitment to and involvement with their community. Because curriculum focuses on a leader’s relationship with his or her staff, applicants must supervise a team of at least three employees during the course of the program.

Selection Criteria

Participants will demonstrate the capacity to become vital leaders of their organizations or agencies and their communities. Other factors considered include commitment to course requirements, experience and career aspirations, adaptability to change, receptivity to learning, ability and willingness to apply lessons learned, demonstrated ability to work collaboratively, the support of the participant’s organization during the learning process and continued service in Northern California. Ideally, each class will reflect diversity in gender, age, ethnicity and geographic service area.

Tuition and Expenses

Sierra Health pays tuition costs and most related expenses associated with participation in the program, including lodging and meals. Participants are expected to pay their own incidental costs. Shared hotel accommodations are provided for participants living beyond a reasonable commuting distance.

Geographic Boundaries

Participation in the Health Leadership Program is open to applicants whose nonprofit organization or public agency serves the people in one or more counties in Sierra Health’s 26-county funding region. Those counties are: Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano (eastern), Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tuolumne, Yolo and Yuba.

Continuing Connection

Health Leadership Program graduates have the opportunity to stay connected with their peers by participating in an alumni group, which meets at least two times a year to network and continue leadership learning.

The Health Leadership Program Application Process