October 19 – 22, 2026
Influential Management
Course Overview
The Influential Management course provides leadership skills specific to the incorporation of meta-leadership styles, driving culture change through specific leadership behaviors and actions, financial storytelling, effective professional negotiation with proven techniques, and more.
Participants engage in several table-top exercises throughout the four-day course, encouraging an interactive learning environment with world-renowned faculty.
Upon the closing of this course you will be able to: distinguish the five principles of Swarm Leadership in practice, apply these principles to meta-leadership in your organization, and discern how “Suspicion Leadership” can undermine your meta-leadership objectives.
The Influential Management course is recommended for early- to mid-level career hospitalists and hospitalist leaders desiring to enhance their leadership skill set in specific areas.
Course Objectives
- Drive cultural change in your institution through specific leadership behaviors and actions
- Use financial reports to drive clinical/operational practice decision making
- Use advanced communication skills that will help:
- Build exceptional physician satisfaction
- Communicate effectively with other high-level hospital leaders
- Recruit and retain the best physicians for your group
- Engage in effective professional negotiation activities using proven techniques
- Use evidence-based techniques in everyday hospitalist group management
- Identify and employ personal meta-leadership tactics to develop action plans for your organization/group
Tuition & Registration
SHM Members
$2,295
Non-Members
$2,695
Influential Management Faculty
Mary Fredrickson
MD
Ankit Mehta
MD, FACP, SFHM
Khaalisha Ajala
MD, MBA FHM
Russell L. Holman
MD, MHM
