Innovative Leadership at a Growing Company

Susan Salka

President, CEO, Director

AMN Healthcare

The Innovator in

Healthcare Workforce Solutions

& Staffing Services

What Is Innovative Leadership?

An Approach: combines different leadership styles to influence and

create ideas, products, and services

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Ideas Products Services

Today’s Topics

• Make it Personal

• Your Board of Directors

• Courage

• Participate

• Planting Seeds

• Keeping it Simple

• Perseverance

• Opening Doors

• Capturing Hearts

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Make It Personal

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• Connect on a personal level

• Humanize your interactions

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Your Personal Board of Directors

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“The only

source of knowledge

is experience.”

Albert Einstein

People that push you forward

Those who give you confidence

Courage

• Dare to imagine

• Progress means moving outside

of the comfort zone

• Doing what is not obvious or easy

“Action breeds

confidence and

courage.”

Dale Carnegie

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Participate

• If you’re going to show up, participate

• Make thoughtful contributions

• Know when to listen

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Planting Seeds

1980sTravel Nurse

American Mobile Nurses: a founding company

1990sNurse and Allied Expansion

American Mobile Healthcare, MedicalExpress

2000 – 2006Physician, Allied, Nurse and Search Expansion,

NursesRx, Preferred Healthcare Staffing,

O’Grady Peyton, RN.com, Merritt Hawkins,

Staff Care, MedTravelers

2007 – 2008Pharmacy and Allied Expansion

RxPro, Platinum Select

2009 – 2013Workforce Solutions: MSP, RPO and VMS

MedFinders, ShiftWise

2014 – 2015Predictive Modeling, Scheduling, Avantas,

MillicanSolutions, The First String Healthcare

Onward Healthcare, Locum Leaders, Medefis

2016B.E. Smith

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Keep It Simple

Cows

Chickens

’Taters

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Perseverance: The Fuel of Progress

Two kinds of people

“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of

success but because the act of striving is in itself

the only way to keep faith with life.”

Madeleine Albright

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Winners Whiners

Opening Doors

• Building each other up

• Giving back

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Capturing Hearts

"In our hearts we

know what matters.”

George Bush,

Inaugural Address

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Summary

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Make it Personal

Your Board of Directors

Courage

Participate

Planting Seeds

Keeping it Simple

Perseverance

Opening Doors

Capturing Hearts

What Innovations Will You Have?

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Ideas

The Innovator in Healthcare Workforce Solutions and Staffing Services

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