Congratulations to all 2024 AOA APEX Graduates
The recent 2024 AOA | USC APEX Leadership Conference: Achieving Peak Performance in Detroit at the amazing Henry Ford Health Pistons Performance Center was a great success. Twenty-one orthopaedic surgeons attended this excellent educational and networking opportunity to transform and advance their leadership skills. The AOA partnership with the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business is a one-and-a-half-day module program, focusing on different, yet essential, leadership topics. The sessions are specifically designed for orthopaedic surgeons, ensuring direct relevance and practical application.
The session began with an exploration of a well-established change management approach and its practical application through an online simulation. Participants then learned to implement change management best practices, gain stakeholder buy-in, and guide the company to success in the simulation. During the debriefing, critical comparisons between the simulation and participants’ own organizations/departments were discussed and focused on strategies for orthopaedic leaders to convert stakeholder resistance into support for essential organizational change initiatives.
These 2024 APEX graduates will join an esteemed and highly coveted group of alumni. Congratulations to all 2024 APEX participants.
Coming in 2025 – a newly redesigned 2024 AOA | USC APEX Leadership Conference: Achieving Peak Performance. More details available soon!