The Leadership Academy for the Advanced Practice Provider develops the awareness, knowledge, and skills APPs need to lead teams, transform healthcare, and navigate an ever‑changing landscape. Over nine months, participants engage in pre‑work, monthly leadership learning sessions, executive coaching, leader shadowing, and complete a leadership project proposal to apply learning in practice.
Why Join This Program?
Designed specifically for APPs, this academy blends practical leadership training with coaching and experiential learning to elevate your impact. Build self-awareness and core technical competencies—financial management, health care policy and economics, executive presence, and communication—to lead and driving meaningful change.
What You'll Gain:
- Develop awareness of your individual strengths as a leader.
- Demonstrate competence in technical leadership skills: financial management; health care policy and economics; executive presence and communication.
- Navigate organizational change and complexity with confidence to transform care.
- Apply learning through a leadership project proposal supported by mentorship.
Who Should Apply?
Physician assistants, nurse practitioners, certified nurse‑midwives, and certified registered nurse anesthetists seeking to expand leadership capacity and drive change within their organizations and communities.
Program Structure
Sessions |
| Introduction to Leadership In Healthcare |
| Wellbeing & Resiliency |
| Building Effective Teams |
| Effective Communication & Executive Presence |
| Diversity Equity and Inclusion |
| Navigating Health Care Economics, Finance & Policy |
| Creating Return on Investment for APPs |
| Designing New Models of Care through Innovation & Visioning |
| Project Presentations |
In addition to learning sessions, participants will:
- Complete assigned pre‑work prior to each session.
- Participate in two executive coaching sessions.
- Engage in a leader shadowing experience.
- Apply concepts and tools from the program to develop a leadership project proposal to address a challenge at work and present the proposal at the end of the program.
- Meet monthly with your project mentor.
Program Expectations:
Participants are expected to:
- Attend all nine monthly learning sessions and complete required pre‑work.
- Participate in both executive coaching sessions.
- Complete the leader shadowing experience.
- Develop, submit, and present a leadership project proposal that applies program learning and addresses a challenge at work.
Testimonials:
"It was really inspiring and breathed some life into me. Hearing about other APPs across the organization, having similar challenges was comforting. And meeting the ones who are already in leadership roles, gave me confidence that I could move in that direction."
“This program has had a large impact on me. I am not currently in a leadership role, and it has helped to think from a more systemic perspective about solving problems and leading people.”
“I have grown as a person and a leader in this program. I was surprised with the time and chance to share connections with fellow colleagues. I feel elevated and humbled of all the information I learned in this program.”
Accredidation Statement and Continuing Education
UCSF Leadership Institute is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Participants will be awarded 36 Contact Hour(s) for participation in the course.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # CEP 12980, for 36 Contact Hour(s).
FAQs
What work do I need to do for the leadership project proposal?
Participants select an organizational challenge within their sphere of influence to address during the program. Throughout the program, they learn and apply key concepts and tools—such as evidence-based practice (EBP), communication, finance, and executive presence—to develop a proposal that tackles their chosen challenge.
Each participant is paired with a project mentor, meeting monthly to discuss progress, ask questions, and receive guidance on both the project content and process.
In the final month, participants present their project proposals to peers and organizational leaders for feedback. The goal is for participants to gain practical skills and a repeatable process for addressing future leadership challenges.
After the program concludes, participants are encouraged to implement their proposed projects within their organizations to create meaningful impact.
What problems have others addressed for the leadership project proposal?
Here are examples of questions that other participants have used for their leadership project proposals:
- Does individualized mentorship compared to no mentorship impact job satisfaction for advanced practice providers?
- In the cancer survivorship patient population, what is the impact on patient-reported quality-of-life domains and the cost of nurse-led versus physician-led survivorship clinics?
In a pediatric intensive care unit, does the implementation of SBAR improve the quality and efficiency of communication with providers compared to standard communication practices, as measured by patient outcomes, nurse satisfaction?
For general inquiries regarding the UCSF Leadership Institute, please contact [email protected].
For inquiries relating to our global partnerships, please contact Michelle Teng at [email protected].
If you are interested in partnering with the UCSF Leadership Institute, please contact Ramu Nagappan at [email protected].
