For Healthcare Leaders & Their Teams
Developing healthy organizations and communities.
Lois Skillings is a nurse, healthcare leader, executive coach, and consultant. With a strong background in executive leadership, she has served in a variety of roles including that of hospital president and chief nursing officer. Lois is a trusted and experienced executive coach to healthcare and community non-profit chief executives as well as senior and emerging leaders. She is a dynamic facilitator of strategic planning and team retreats.
“My coaching philosophy stems directly from my leadership values and experiences, which include building healthy relationships based on trust, emotional safety, respect, and deep curiosity. I help leaders and their teams work across differences; the ability to see possibility in diverse skills and backgrounds is at the heart of leadership development. My goal as a coach is to help clients identify and achieve reachable goals for moving their career and their organization to the next level of excellence. I believe in a strength-based approach and see the best in people while helping them achieve accountability for improving and growing their skills and expertise. Leadership is hard work, and finding joy and balance in leadership practice often comes with the ability to solve complex and challenging problems with confidence and sensitivity.”
Services
Leadership and board development training
Merger transition and support
Lois has been an executive leader for three not-for-profit organizational mergers during her career. These experiences have provided unique lessons and experiences about each stage of merger activity, managing through transition, and cultural integration.
Executive Coaching
Executive Coaching for c-suite and emerging leaders. Through 35 years of leadership roles, Lois has served as a mentor and coach to many. She will customize a professional development experience to meet your expectations, leverage your strengths, and help you practice new skills.
Team and board retreat facilitation
An experienced facilitator, Lois has a way of ensuring engagement of the entire group while creating a safe space for healthy discourse. Working with leaders in advance of a retreat is one of the most important factors to a successful retreat through establishing a sound agenda and expectations. Lois will work with your team to leave the retreat with specific outcomes of the day and strategic next steps. She is skilled at both fostering deep discussions and moving things to resolution so people leave the event with a sense of accomplishment and direction.
Lois has presented at conferences and served as a guest lecturer and panel speaker on topics such as effective leadership communication and relationship skills, transforming health care and health policy, self-care and resilience for leaders, managing change in complex and challenging times.
“A leader sees greatness in other people.”
– Maya Angelou
