Fork in the River: Leadership, Loneliness, and What Healthcare Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Company Towns Featuring Lisa Prior, EP 248

About this episode

Tracy Cherpeski discusses leadership and practitioner burnout with Lisa Prior, exploring the lessons healthcare can learn from company towns.

What if your practice is one of the last true neighborhoods your patients have access to? In this episode, Tracy Cherpeski sits down with Lisa Prior — leadership and change consultant and author of the forthcoming Rubber Avenue: When Work Was the First Neighborhood — for a conversation that reframes where practitioner burnout really comes from.

People in this episode

Host: Tracy Cherpeski

Guest: Lisa Prior

Topics covered

• leadership
• healthcare
• practitioner burnout
• community
• change management

Keywords

• leadership
• loneliness
• healthcare
• practitioner burnout
• company towns

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Rubber Avenue: When Work Was the First Neighborhood

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