This Best Practice Exchange shares how Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall, a Hudson Valley community hospital system and member of Montefiore Health System, took a practical and resourceful approach to developing its leaders during a period of significant organizational transition. By leveraging its health system affiliation and thoughtfully combining targeted leadership development, Skillsoft coaching and learning resources, and the TalentX7 assessment, MSLC created an integrated approach to help leaders build greater self-awareness, resilience, and readiness to lead change.
Attendees will hear how MSLC prioritized and sequenced these resources, engaged leaders in the process, and translated leadership development into meaningful organizational impact. The session will also offer practical ideas that other organizations can apply to strengthen leadership capability, even when discretionary funding is limited.
About the presenters:
Laurie McGuire, MS, ACC, Columbia University Certified Coach, SHRM-CP Laurie McGuire is a human resources leader, executive coach, and talent development professional with more than 20 years of experience helping individuals, teams, and organizations achieve higher levels of performance, engagement, and leadership effectiveness. Throughout her career, Laurie has designed and led initiatives focused on leadership development, executive coaching, team effectiveness, employee engagement, performance management, and organizational learning across both corporate and nonprofit environments.
In her role at Montefiore Einstein, Laurie leads talent and leadership development initiatives that supports thousands of leaders, managers, and employees across a nationally recognized academic health system. She partners with organizational leaders to design and implement programs that strengthen leadership capabilities, foster employee growth, enhance organizational effectiveness, and build talent for the future. Laurie embraces innovation in talent development, leveraging technology, including AI-enabled tools, to expand access to learning, increase efficiency, and enhance leadership effectiveness.
Laurie is a Certified Coach through the Columbia University Coaching Certification Program and holds the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential from the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She is certified in several assessment tools, including the EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360 Emotional Intelligence assessments, Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI), Neethling Brain Instrument (NBI), and TalentTelligent individual and 360-degree assessments.
An active member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Laurie also holds the SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP) designation. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan and a Master of Science in Adult Education from Buffalo State University.
Michelle Weitzman-Garcia, Ph.D Michelle Weitzman-Garcia, Ph.D. is a consultant specializing in implementing integrated talent management practices, building organizational and people capability, and implementing change. She has 30 years of experience working for or consulting to a variety of different organizations, at all stages of development and sizes, and brings to her work a strategic, practical, collaborative, and capability building approach.
Most recently, Michelle was the VP of Organizational Effectiveness for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company located in Tarrytown, NY. While there, she built and managed the Organizational Effectiveness function which included talent management, onboarding, employer branding, employee engagement, team interventions, coaching, and the change management practice for the organization. While there, she won awards for her work on performance management and was a frequent speaker at a variety of industry conferences. Her work was also featured in Harvard Business Review.
Michelle received both her Master’s and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Akron and her B.A. in Psychology from Boston College. She lives in Westchester County, NY with her three dogs and husband.
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Sponsored by TALENTX7
