Root & Rise Strategies — Physician Leadership Development
Physician Leadership Development

Medical training
made you excellent
at medicine.

Leadership wasn't part of the curriculum.
That's where this work begins.

For Medical Departments
Your physicians were trained to be exceptional at medicine. Leadership was left to chance. That gap costs you people. We close it.
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Trusted by
Penn CME Accredited
The Problem

The gap between
clinician and leader
isn't personal.

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

Most leadership development in healthcare either treats physicians like patients — offering wellness and resilience tools — or treats them like students — transferring competencies that don't stick. Neither works, because neither starts with the physician as the agent of their own development.

I work differently. The change happens through you — not to you. And when it does, it doesn't stay in the coaching room.

What doesn't work

Another resilience training. Another framework to perform. Another program that tells you to cope better with a broken system.

What doesn't work

Generic leadership development that doesn't understand the clinical environment, the hierarchy, the moral weight of the work.

What Root & Rise does

Develops physicians as leaders — from the inside out. Evidence-based, physician-specific, and built on the premise that developed physicians change the cultures around them.

The Work
Leadership is learnable.
The development is yours.
01
Internal Leadership First
Self-awareness, values clarity, and orientation — before the people-leading part. You can't lead a team from a place you haven't found in yourself. That's where the work starts.
02
Evidence-Based, Not Academic
Research-grounded and translated into tools you can use on shift, in a difficult conversation, in the moment a colleague is struggling. Rigorous without being inaccessible.
03
The Ripple Is Real
The change you create in a coaching room doesn't stay there. Physicians who lead differently change the culture around them — their teams, their departments, their institutions.
For Physicians

1:1 Coaching for Physician Leaders

A confidential, structured space to develop as a leader — whether you hold a formal title or not. The work is yours. I hold the container.

1:1 Physician Coaching
Individual coaching engagements. Inbound by referral. CME-reimbursable across most institutions.
Open
Group Coaching Cohort
Small-group physician leadership cohorts. Structured peer learning in a confidential setting.
Forming
Async CME Course
Self-paced, CME-accredited leadership education for physicians. Built from the live cohort curriculum.
Coming Soon
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For Medical Departments

Cohorts, Facilitation & Speaking

Leadership development built for academic medical centers. Not a wellness program. Not a generic training. Infrastructure that develops your physicians and changes how your department operates.

  • 6-month cohort programs — Resilient Leadership & Transition Coaching tracks
  • Retreats and facilitation for leadership teams
  • Speaking engagements — grand rounds, conferences, leadership days
  • CME-accredited programming through Penn Medicine
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What physicians say
From the room
"I came in skeptical. I didn't think coaching could apply to what I was dealing with. What changed wasn't that my situation got easier — it's that I stopped leading from a place of reaction and started leading from a place of clarity."
— Attending Physician, Academic Medical Center
Coral Edwards, MS, PCC

An outside perspective
that sees what's inside.

I'm not a physician. That's not a gap — it'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 inside the training that shapes it.

That outside perspective is what lets me see what 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, physician leadership conferences
Schedule a Consultation

One conversation.
No pitch. No pressure.

Whether you're a physician navigating the leadership part, or a department leader looking for something that will actually stick — let's talk.

Schedule a Conversation
45 minutes · No commitment · For physicians and institutional inquiries