How A Healthcare Leader Plans To Fix Georgia Schools

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Dr. Nelva Lee discusses her journey from healthcare executive to education reformer and her plans to improve Georgia schools.

Send us Fan Mail What does it take to fix a system that keeps letting kids down? We sit down with Dr. Nelva Lee—healthcare executive turned education reformer—to map a practical path from broken metrics to better lives. Her story runs from directing patient advocacy at a major health system to founding a medical interpreting trade school, and now to a statewide campaign for Georgia’s superintendent of schools. Along the way, she learned how to coach under pressure, where bureaucracy hides was...

People in this episode

Host: Gary L. Wise

Guest: Dr. Nelva Lee

Topics covered

• education reform
• healthcare leadership
• Georgia schools
• system improvement
• coaching under pressure

Keywords

• education reform
• Georgia schools
• healthcare leadership
• system improvement
• coaching

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Georgia’s superintendent of schools, health system, medical interpreting trade school

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