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138: The Physician Leader as Learner with Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken DocWorking: The Whole Physician Podcast

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“So what motivates you as a leader is important to know from the beginning.” -Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken 
 
All physicians are leaders.
 
In today’s episode, DocWorking Founder and CEO, Dr. Jen Barna talks about physician leadership with internationally recognized leadership expert Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken. In this conversation they discuss multiple different styles of leadership, including leader as learner, transactional, post heroic and more. Tosca points out the importance of knowing what motivates you as a physician leader. Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken has offered leadership development and coaching, change management and facilitation services to international and US-based public sector and nonprofit and philanthropic leaders for 30 years, in practice, in academia and as an independent consultant. Tosca has designed and delivered 25+ leadership development training programs. She also enjoys coaching on virtual team leadership, organizational strategy, gender and leadership and diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging strategies. We hope you enjoy this conversation and future conversations with Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken, and maximize your potential as the best leader you can be. 
 
Links to the Virtual Team Leadership course offerings:
5 Steps to Turbo Charge your Virtual Team Leadership (a FREE non-cohort based mini-course):https://5oaks.teachable.com/p/free-mini-course-5-days-challenge
 
  Post-Pandemic Virtual Team Leadership Essentials (full fee-based, cohort-based course - February 28-April 8, 2022): https://5oaks.teachable.com/p/virtual-leadership-course
 
    The Five Oaks Consulting  ‘School’ in which all courses are housed:       https://5oaks.teachable.com/
 
Tosca is a public thought leader and co-author of the book ‘Between Power and Irrelevance: the Future of Transnational NGOs’ (Oxford University Press, 20202) and host of the podcast NGO Soul+Strategy. At the start of her career, Tosca worked as international development practitioner for a European think tank, the World Bank, a US nonprofit, and the United Nations. After leaving the Netherlands, her home country, Tosca lived in Zimbabwe, Cambodia and Vietnam, before settling once again in Upstate New York, USA in 2001; she is a dual national (USA and Netherlands).

Find full transcripts of DocWorking: The Whole Physician Podcast episodes on the DocWorking Blog 
How many coaches do you think your favorite actors and athletes have worked with over the years in order to achieve such extraordinary success?
 
What if you had a team of trusted thinking partners, experienced coaches who have helped hundreds of physicians overcome obstacles and who know what works? 
 
What if you were part of a community of like-minded physicians from across the nation, across specialties and career stages? Your collective brain trust, sharing ideas and experiences, so you would no longer feel like an island, surrounded by people yet alone?
 
What if you had small group coaching sessions, could interact with your coaches and community as often as you wish, and had virtual courses at your fingertips 24-7 that could help you with things like time and stress management, resilience, and mapping out your future to achieve what matters most to you?
 
What if you could have all of this for less than the cost of a single 1:1 coaching session per month?
 
DocWorking THRIVE is the Physician Coaching and Community Subscription Package that Guides You as a Doctor to Embrace Life in the way that is most meaningful to you, integrate that with your work so you can truly thrive, and be a valued member of our growing private community of doctors from across the nation.
Join the DocWorking mailing list by clicking here.
 
At DocWorking, our specialty is Coaching Physicians to achieve the best in life and medicine. 
 
Doctors devote their lives to caring for others. But does that mean they must sacrifice their own health and wellbeing? Absolutely not!

“So what motivates you as a leader is important to know from the beginning.” -Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken 
 
All physicians are leaders.
 
In today’s episode, DocWorking Founder and CEO, Dr. Jen Barna talks about physician leadership with internationally recognized leadership expert Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken. In this conversation they discuss multiple different styles of leadership, including leader as learner, transactional, post heroic and more. Tosca points out the importance of knowing what motivates you as a physician leader. Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken has offered leadership development and coaching, change management and facilitation services to international and US-based public sector and nonprofit and philanthropic leaders for 30 years, in practice, in academia and as an independent consultant. Tosca has designed and delivered 25+ leadership development training programs. She also enjoys coaching on virtual team leadership, organizational strategy, gender and leadership and diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging strategies. We hope you enjoy this conversation and future conversations with Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken, and maximize your potential as the best leader you can be. 
 
Links to the Virtual Team Leadership course offerings:
5 Steps to Turbo Charge your Virtual Team Leadership (a FREE non-cohort based mini-course):https://5oaks.teachable.com/p/free-mini-course-5-days-challenge
 
  Post-Pandemic Virtual Team Leadership Essentials (full fee-based, cohort-based course - February 28-April 8, 2022): https://5oaks.teachable.com/p/virtual-leadership-course
 
    The Five Oaks Consulting  ‘School’ in which all courses are housed:       https://5oaks.teachable.com/
 
Tosca is a public thought leader and co-author of the book ‘Between Power and Irrelevance: the Future of Transnational NGOs’ (Oxford University Press, 20202) and host of the podcast NGO Soul+Strategy. At the start of her career, Tosca worked as international development practitioner for a European think tank, the World Bank, a US nonprofit, and the United Nations. After leaving the Netherlands, her home country, Tosca lived in Zimbabwe, Cambodia and Vietnam, before settling once again in Upstate New York, USA in 2001; she is a dual national (USA and Netherlands).

Find full transcripts of DocWorking: The Whole Physician Podcast episodes on the DocWorking Blog 
How many coaches do you think your favorite actors and athletes have worked with over the years in order to achieve such extraordinary success?
 
What if you had a team of trusted thinking partners, experienced coaches who have helped hundreds of physicians overcome obstacles and who know what works? 
 
What if you were part of a community of like-minded physicians from across the nation, across specialties and career stages? Your collective brain trust, sharing ideas and experiences, so you would no longer feel like an island, surrounded by people yet alone?
 
What if you had small group coaching sessions, could interact with your coaches and community as often as you wish, and had virtual courses at your fingertips 24-7 that could help you with things like time and stress management, resilience, and mapping out your future to achieve what matters most to you?
 
What if you could have all of this for less than the cost of a single 1:1 coaching session per month?
 
DocWorking THRIVE is the Physician Coaching and Community Subscription Package that Guides You as a Doctor to Embrace Life in the way that is most meaningful to you, integrate that with your work so you can truly thrive, and be a valued member of our growing private community of doctors from across the nation.
Join the DocWorking mailing list by clicking here.
 
At DocWorking, our specialty is Coaching Physicians to achieve the best in life and medicine. 
 
Doctors devote their lives to caring for others. But does that mean they must sacrifice their own health and wellbeing? Absolutely not!

25 min