Inforum's SE HealthcareNEXT Event

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Where have all the workers gone? Leading Across Generations

The healthcare industry continues to evolve and change rapidly when it comes to patient care, technology, and flexibility. So, what does that mean for attracting talent, redesigning work, and an increasing presence of AI? Join Inforum’s HealthcareNEXT’s innovation-focused event where we will hear a diverse group of experts present research on understanding different generations of the workforce for retention – especially Gen Z - finding flexibility in roles, and virtual nurse programming.

Doug Dascenzo, Regional Chief Nursing Officer, Trinity Health

Doug Dascenzo is an experienced healthcare executive energized by innovation, creativity, diversity, and inclusion. His work has revolved largely around the experience of care for both patients and clinicians utilizing evidence, Caritas, implementation science, interprofessional teamwork, and professional governance to realize improvements. Doug is the Regional Chief Nursing Officer at Trinity Health-Michigan and Chief Nursing Officer at Trinity Health Oakland. He has served in this capacity over the past 7 years. He has earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Wayne State University (1984), a Master of Science in Nursing at Madonna University (2000), and Doctor of Nursing Practice at the University of Detroit Mercy (2021). Additionally, he holds Certification in Executive Nursing Practice from the American Organization of Nursing Leadership.

Jan Harrington-Davis, SVP, Talent Attraction, Corewell Health

Driven, ambitious, creative, intelligent, analytical…those are a few words that describe Jan Harrington-Davis. A Michigan native, Jan is a great example of what can be accomplished when hard work and determination are combined. Joining Corewell Health in 2022, Jan leads the Talent Attraction teams in designing and executing recruitment strategies to attract, evaluate and retain high performing team members. She brings over 20 years of experience in talent attraction, workforce diversity, and employee relations. As the former Vice President, Talent Acquisition- EEO Diversity & Workforce Solutions, for Henry Ford Health System, Jan oversaw talent acquisition and workforce diversity initiatives and deployed a workforce development strategy to align diversity initiatives across the organization while removing barriers to employment and promotional opportunities.

Shereen Sater, Founder, The Curve Collective

After spending her career in the Marketing/ Technology space, Shereen realized her true passion was in building effective teams, developing leaders at all levels, and getting results for the business by understanding the people better. In 2019, this led Shereen to pursue a master’s degree in Learning & Organizational Change and executive leadership coaching certification at Northwestern University. For the past three years, she has found strategic ways to create the solutions she needed earlier in her career – more thorough and consistent professional development and solutions to bridge the gaps between leadership and entry-level talent through discovery, shared language, and joint learning. With a heavy focus on adult learning and bridging generational gaps, Shereen takes pride in making her workshops and courses enjoyable, digestible, and immediately actionable. Shereen resides in Chicago, IL. She is an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, where she teaches Change Management to undergraduate students.

Rian Brooks, Manager, Workforce Planning and Talent Acquisition, Michigan Medicine

Rian Brooks is the Manager of Workforce Planning and Talent Acquisition for Michigan Medicine – a role he has held for the last two years. Rian’s entire career has been in the field of Talent Acquisition, within the healthcare and higher education industries. As a TA leader, Rian endeavors to help organizations build strong, efficient and equitable hiring practices, as well as to build diverse workforces of today and the future. Prior to Michigan Medicine, Rian led talent acquisition functions at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Easterseals Southern California and The New School in New York City. Click here for more information about Rian.

EVENT DETAILS
Date: Thursday, September 28
Time: 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. 
Place: Trinity Health, Livonia 
Tickets: $25 members & MCACHE Members (use MCACHE code) , $35 nonmembers (guests)

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HealthcareNEXT is for Inforum members who want to stay ahead of health care’s next curve, trend, opportunity or insight. The group is focused on sharing knowledge, increasing understanding of key health care issues, and offering unique professional development and relationship-building opportunities for health care providers and health plans, the payer community, educators, consultants, attorneys and other experts who routinely work in health care.