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May 2020
32m 44s

A Time for Women Leaders to Shine

Harvard Business Review
About this episode

Healthcare workers are overwhelmingly women, but few are in positions of leadership. We hear from Sheila Davis, who became a nurse in the 1980s and is now CEO of Partners In Health.

She talks about decision making and leading a team through the coronavirus crisis, as well as what she and her organization are doing to help fix the gender imbalance in healthcare leadership.

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Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network.

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