Built to Lead - The Health Leaders of Tomorrow Podcast

Rebels with a Cause:  Exploring the Element of Perspective Part 1.   

Dr. Eileen de Villa is the guest in this episode about perspective – the second of the five elements required of “good rebels” to create positive change.   

In part 1 of this conversation, Dr. de Villa discusses the importance of “perspective” as a leadership skill, particularly during times when leaders are faced with great stress.  In these situations, the thinking of leaders must broaden to allow one to consider more possibilities before making decisions.   

Dr. de Villa sheds light on how she maintained perspective while leading Toronto Public Health through its response to COVID-19 and what she learned about leadership while navigating the City’s public health response to the pandemic.   

Dr. Eileen de Villa is the Medical Officer of Health for the City of Toronto. In this position, she leads Toronto Public Health, the largest local public health agency in Canada, which offers various programs and services to the city’s more than 3 million residents.  

In the fight against COVID-19, Dr. de Villa guided Toronto’s largest vaccination campaign. Her unwavering commitment to equipping the public with knowledge and her pivotal role in pandemic response has been recognized globally.  

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Rebels with a Cause:  Exploring the Element of Diversity Part 2:  

Mobeen and Matthew continue their conversation with Dr. Timothy and discuss two articles about inclusive leadership in professional education and in the actual practice of leadership.  The first article is about the importance of providing Black mentorship in medical residency programs and the criticality for racially concordant mentorship.  In the second article, they discuss what is means to be an inclusive leader, including the six dimensions of inclusive leaders.  

Here are the two articles discussed with Dr. Timothy:   

The Key to Inclusive Leadership by Juliet Bourke and Andrea Titus.  Harvard Business Review.  March 6, 2020 

Available at:  https://hbr.org/2020/03/the-key-to-inclusive-leadership 

The Needs for Addressing Black Mentorship Within Residency Training in Canada by Onaope Egbedeyi BA, Hadal El-Hadi MD, Tina R. Madzima MDCM, Teresa Semalulu MD MPH, Modupe Tunde-Byass MB BS, Rukia Swaleh MD; for the Black Physicians of Canada Research Group 

Available at:  https://www.cmaj.ca/content/194/42/E1455  

Dr. Timothy is the Black Health lead at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and founder of the Masters of Public Health in Black Health, who started its inaugural cohort in Sep[tember of 2023.  For her work, she has been named a Top 25 women of influence in 2022, and winner of the Doris Anderson award in 2021.  

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Rebels with a Cause:  Exploring the Element of Diversity Part 1.   

Our cohosts, Mobeen and Matthew are joined by Dr. Roberta Timothy in this episode about diversity – the first of the five elements required of “good rebels” to create positive change.   

In part 1 of this conversation, Dr. Timothy discusses what is means to be anti-racist and anti-oppressive as a leader of change and how health leaders can cultivate this thinking in their work as they take action to create change in our health system.   

Dr. Timothy is the Black Health lead at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and founder of the Masters of Public Health in Black Health, who started its inaugural cohort in September of 2023.  For her work, she has been named a Top 25 women of influence in 2022, and winner of the Doris Anderson award in 2021.  

Dr. Timothy strives for justice through efforts of decolonization, especially in the world of healthcare and social determinants of health. She has over 30 years of experience working in frontline community health, conduction her work through an anti-racist and anti-oppression lens. She is also a co-founder of Continuing Healing Consultants, where she has trained many practitioners in Anti-Oppression psychotherapy.   

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Built to Lead Season 4:  Live Launch with Ene Underwood, CEO, Habitat for Humanity (GTA) 

Listeners are welcomed to Season 4 by Dr.Audrey Laporte, Director of IHPME, who thanked the students and alumni of IHPME for creating and sustaining the Built to Lead Podcast, a companion offering of Vernissage Health.  The podcast is used as a learning tool in graduate level leadership classes throughout IHPME and ensures that health leadership is a career path for those who want to have impact in the field.   

In this special live launch, Ene Underwood, currently CEO at Habitat for Humanity (GTA), starts Season 4 with an engaging conversation about what it means to be a rebel for a cause and her leadership journey from the private sector to health care to housing.    

Along the way, our cohosts, Hannah and Matthew, mine some gems of advice for emerging and early career leaders on what it takes to lead and advocate for positive change.  Ene reflect on some pivotal learning moments in her career and encourages us all, as leaders, to have patience, leverage our power, and do the homework to become effective leaders of change.   

Episode Guest:   

For over a decade, Ene Underwood has been the CEO of Habitat for Humanity Greater Toronto Area.  There she leads a team that defies the odds by helping working families build strength, stability and self-reliance through affordable homeownership in what is characterized as one of most challenging residential real estate markets in North America.  

Ene was a member of Ontario’s Housing Affordability Task Force which filed its report with the Ontario government in February 2022 setting an ambitious goal of 1.5 million new homes over the next decade.     

Ene’s career began in the private sector as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company, followed by close to two decades of leadership in Ontario’s publicly funded hospital sector, before devoting her career to addressing the housing challenges facing the GTA and Canada.  

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In this introductory episode, our cohosts, Mobeen and Matthew, discuss how the podcast team selected the Season 4 theme “Rebels with a Cause”.  Coming out of the pandemic in which unprecedented change was the norm, the podcast team chose to seek inspiration this year from those health leaders who, day to day, defy the norm.  Leaders who continually challenge conventions in pursuit of personal, organizational and health system transformation and change.   

Like every season, our hosts “set the table” during this introduction and review the framework that guides the conversation with guests in each episode.  In Season 4, Francesca Gino’s five elements of Rebel Talent, the traits of change makers, serves as the framework for dialogue in each episode.   

The format of episodes is explained – two episodes per guest.  The first episode explores, through lively conversation, the rebel trait – diversity, perspective, curiosity, novelty and authenticity.  The second episodes show cases two contemporary academic papers through which the trait is explored by each guest.   

Welcome aboard and enjoy Season 4 of Built to Lead – Health Leaders of Tomorrow!   

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Three emerging healthcare leaders join Matthew and Mobeen to talk about all the things they learned from listening to season 3, and we get their perspective on how new leaders in healthcare interpret and apply the sage advice from our guests. It is our pleasure to feature Julian Wong, Yasmin Sheikan, and Erin Trescases and listen to their perspectives on our final episode of season 3. See you in Fall 2023 for Season 4!

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Matthew and Mobeen reach the accomplishment of the last half of their last interview of season 3 as they talk with Jackie about the joy that comes from fostering deep trust with teams when celebrating accomplishments and acknowledging success, and the powerful reinforcing effects this can have.

Check out the article The Power of Small Wins: https://bit.ly/BTL-SmallWins

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Jackie Schleifer Taylor, President and CEO of London Health Sciences Centre, joins Matthew and Mobeen to talk about bouncing back from failure, the power of small wins, and how frequent feedback and celebration was crucial to managing through the worst waves of COVID-19.

Learn about accomplishment in the PERMA model here: https://bit.ly/BTL-PERMA

Read the article about the Power of Small Wins here: https://bit.ly/BTL-SmallWins

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Mary, Matthew, and Mobeen really get into the flow of things talking about how we can best engage and be present. The trio discuss athletics, musicians, the joy of having animals on your zoom calls, and what we can learn from that about setting conditions for workplace engagement - and of course the joy that being engaged brings us.

Read the article about Zoom Fatigue: https://bit.ly/BTL-ZoomFatigue

Read the article about musicians and athletes and flow: https://bit.ly/BTL-FlowAthletes

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Matthew and Mobeen are joined by Mary Uhl-Bien, BNSF Railway Endowed Professor of Leadership at the TCU Neeley School of Business in Texas. It's a simple discussion about complexity theory and followership, and how these two areas of Mary's research are instrumental to helping us find Joy. Then, we look at an OBGYN department that was suffering from disengagement, and how they re-engaged and brought joy to their unit once again.

Relationships as Described in Positive Psychology: https://bit.ly/BTL-PERMA

Rediscovering Joy in the OBGYN department: https://bit.ly/BTL-OBGYNJoy

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