Root & Rise Strategies — Faculty Physician Leadership Development
For Faculty Physician Groups

Your faculty physicians
were trained to be exceptional
at medicine.

Leadership was left to chance, and that gap costs you people. I close it — through cohort programs, facilitation, retreats, and speaking.

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For Faculty Physicians
Medical training made you excellent at medicine. Leadership wasn't part of the curriculum. That's where this work begins.
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The Problem

You've promoted excellent faculty physicians. Nobody built the leadership part.

Medicine has a rigorous system for developing clinical excellence. It has no equivalent system for developing leadership. Faculty physicians are promoted for performance, then left to figure out the rest on their own.

Most leadership development in healthcare lands in one of two places: wellness programs that ask faculty physicians to cope better with a broken system, or generic training that was written for a different profession and never quite fits. Neither actually changes how someone leads.

Whether the work is with one faculty physician or an entire group of them, the results don't stay contained to the room. How people lead changes what it's like for everyone around them — residents, colleagues, patients, whole teams.

What doesn't work

Another resilience training that asks you to cope better with a broken system.

Generic leadership content that doesn't understand the hierarchy, the hours, or the moral weight of the work.

What I do instead

Develop faculty physicians as leaders, from the inside out — evidence-based, physician-specific, and built on the belief that a faculty physician who leads differently changes the culture around them.

The Work

What this work is built on.

Internal work first
Self-awareness, values clarity, and orientation come before the people-leading part. It's hard to lead a team from a place you haven't found in yourself, so that's where we start.
Evidence-based, not academic
The material is grounded in research, but I translate it into something you can actually reach for — in a hard conversation, during rounds, or in the moment a colleague is struggling.
The effect doesn't stay in the room
A faculty physician who leads with more clarity changes how their residents, colleagues, and patients experience them — not just how they personally feel.
For Faculty Physician Groups

Cohorts, facilitation & speaking

Leadership development built for academic medical centers — not a wellness program, not a generic training. Infrastructure that develops your faculty physicians and changes how your team operates.

Speaking Engagement
Grand rounds, leadership days, and conference keynotes. The lowest-friction way to bring this work into your program.
Entry point
Facilitation & Retreat
Half or full-day sessions for leadership teams, faculty groups, or cross-functional cohorts, built around a specific challenge.
Focused engagement
Cohort Program
Six-month live cohorts, two tracks available. CME-eligible, includes the Root & Rise Field Guide.
Flagship
Not sure which format fits? Every conversation starts the same way — 45 minutes on what your faculty physicians actually need, no packaged proposal up front.
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For Faculty Physicians

Leadership coaching for faculty physicians

A confidential space to develop as a leader — from open-ended 1:1 coaching to a structured program for faculty physicians stepping into a new leadership role. The work is yours. I hold the container.

1:1 Coaching for Faculty Physicians
Individual coaching engagements, inbound by referral. CME-reimbursable across most institutions.
Open
Leadership Transition Program
A 6- or 12-month program for faculty physicians moving into a new leadership role — a pre-defined curriculum paired with 1:1 coaching support, plus the Root & Rise Field Guide.
Open
Async CME Course
Self-paced, CME-accredited leadership education, built from the live cohort curriculum. Available now on Penn Medicine's CME platform.
Open
Not quite ready for coaching? Start with free articles and tools for faculty physician leaders on the Resources page.
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What clients say

From the room

Coral Edwards, MS, PCC

An outside perspective that sees what's inside.

I'm not a physician, and that's part of what makes this work. I've spent years embedded in the physician world, beginning with my husband's medical school, residency, and fellowship training, and the toll that journey took on both of us. I understand the culture, the hierarchy, the moral weight, and the identity complexity from the inside, without being shaped by the training that produces it.

That outside perspective is what lets me see what faculty physicians often can't see about themselves, and reflect it back without flinching.

ICF-certified Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
CME content developer, Penn Medicine
Active cohort: Penn Medicine C4C Program
Clients across Penn, Boston Medical Center, Jefferson, Nemours, Medical College of Wisconsin
Speaker — grand rounds, academic medicine leadership conferences
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Let's start with a conversation.

Whether you're looking for something that will actually stick for your faculty physicians, or navigating the leadership part yourself — let's talk.

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