When women balance professional and personal ambitions, responsibilities, and interests, unique challenges arise.

Our healthcare landscape is quickly shifting as practice and policy attempt to catch up with a post-pandemic new normal. To meet the growing needs of all women leaders, the Hanley Center for Health Leadership & Education has created a new space of learning, networking, and support for women in healthcare.

This curriculum is designed to build and strengthen skills, resources, community, and confidence for women leaders from all walks of our fluid healthcare landscape. Please add your important voice to our exploration of challenging questions, our shared stories of successes and roadblocks, and our professional support networks. Let’s work together to create a more inclusive, innovative, and equitable healthcare environment.

To learn more contact Janell Lewis, Director of Leadership Development with any questions.

 

About Each Session
  • Session 1: Leading With Clarity: Harnessing Your Communication Skills

              Objectives

      • Recognize your communication strengths and develop a plan to expand them
      • Identify and understand others’ communication styles and bridge the gap
      • Learn how and when to engage in challenging conversations you may have avoided
      • Gain communication strategies to achieve buy-in
  • Session 2: Leader as Coach and Capacity Builder: Investing in your Team and Future Leaders

              Objectives

      • Learn to lead successful, sustainable, and innovative organizations in a complex environment
      • Strategically develop your emerging and middle leaders.   
      • Improve how you bring the best out of your team and support them as they do it 
      • Explore leadership coaching tools to build employee skills as well as strategies for increasing employee engagement 
  • Session 3: Women Leading Women, Gender Equity & Support

                 Objectives

      • Understand what’s unique and effective for women in leading with equity
      • Learn how to create and model a culture of equity.
      • Recognize the benefits of sharing your personal stories to mentor other women leaders and make a plan to do so

Please note: All sessions will be virtual.

Dates, Logistics, Tuition and CME

Enrollment deadline for Women in Health Leadership Seminar Series, cohort 4: June 15, 2026

Logistics

  • This course will be offered virtually, enabling network development across a statewide cohort of your colleagues, and eliminating the need for travel.
  • The course consists of 3 morning sessions
  • The 3 morning sessions take place from October-December, from 8:00-11:00 a.m.

Dates (2026)

  • Session 1: October 7
  • Session 2: November 4
  • Session 3: December 2

Please note: All sessions are 8:00-11:00 a.m.

Tuition

Enrollment fee: $25

Tuition: $900

CME Information

The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 9 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education  is accredited by the Maine Medical Association’s Committee on Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education (CME) to practicing physicians.