🎙️ From Pharmaceutical Sales to Healthcare Leadership: Tanika Williams' Journey in Strategic Medical Staffing

In this inspiring episode, Tanika Williams, Head of Industry Relations at Jackson Coker, shares her remarkable transition from 95% travel pharmaceutical sales to becoming a strategic leader in healthcare staffing. Through authentic storytelling, Tanika reveals how becoming a single mother transformed her career priorities and led her to discover the powerful impact of locum tenens physicians in expanding healthcare access. She discusses the evolution from transactional to relational business approaches, the importance of understanding your "why," and how Jackson Coker's culture of "others first" creates genuine family-like support for both employees and the physicians they place nationwide.

✨ Key Insights You'll Learn:

• Divine intervention career pivot from pharmaceutical road warrior to stable healthcare role

• Locum tenens strategy evolution from emergency solution to strategic hospital planning tool

• Relationship-based sales versus transactional approaches in medical staffing industry

• Healthcare staffing addressing physician shortages and healthcare deserts nationwide

• Single motherhood resilience building stronger, more compassionate leadership approach

• Jackson Coker's "others first" culture creating authentic workplace family environment

• Technology innovation reducing administrative burden for traveling physicians

• Academic program partnerships introducing early career physicians to locum tenens pathways

• Strategic growth through careful specialty selection and understanding market dynamics

• Self-care and boundaries as essential leadership tools for sustainable success

  
  

🌟 Tanika's Key Mentors:

Pharmaceutical Industry Friend: Referred her to Jackson Coker, recognizing the cultural fit and growth opportunity 

Jackson Coker Leadership Team: Provided family-like support during single motherhood challenges 

Church and Community Leaders: Early platform for developing oratorical and leadership skills through contests 

Academic Advisors: Helped shape persuasive speaking and total SDI certification development 

Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation: Partnership providing physician wellbeing training and advocacy insights 

Work Family Village: Colleagues who stepped up voluntarily during personal challenges without being asked

👉 Don't miss this powerful conversation about career transitions, authentic leadership, healthcare access, and how personal challenges can fuel professional growth and compassion in the medical staffing industry.

🔗 Connect with Tanika Williams:

LinkedIn: Tanika Williams at Jackson Coker 

Company Website: Jackson Coker Locum Tenens 

Social Media: Follow Jackson Coker on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook

📄 Transcript Available: Tanika Williams on Transitioning Healthcare Deserts Through Strategic Physician Placement

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