5 Critical Elements to Innovation in the Healthcare and Beyond: An Interview Jennifer Ruzek Liebermann, Director, Garfield Health Care Innovation Center at Kaiser Permanente

Jennifer R. Lieberman’s passion is not only infectious… it is
literally transforming the way an entire industry thinks about
health care and leadership.


 


If you want to gain access to truth behind what it takes to
create collaboration and innovation, listen to this podcast!


 


Jennifer Liebermann is a Kaiser Permanente “intrapraneur” who is
passionate about shaping the future of health.  In 2006, she
launched Kaiser Permanente’s Garfield Health Care Innovation
Center, the first of its kind. The Garfield Center enables
patients and clinicians to envision the future of health care and
create it in a safe, simulated environment.  Described as a
“giant Montessori school for adults”, the Garfield Center draws
on design thinking principles to ideate, prototype and spread
innovation.


 


Throughout the podcast, you will hear candid answers to following
questions:


 
How do you get people inside an organization as big as Kaiser
Permanente to collaborate? How do you get buy-in at all levels? If
innovation and collaboration are critical to a leaders success,
what is the first step any organization must take to begin the
process? How do you get people to feel empowered and take action?
How do you get people to shift their behaviors when they’re used to
working in a certain way?

 


 


To learn more about Jennifer, click here. You can learn more
about Garfield Health Care Innovation Center by clicking here.


 


I hope that one day all leaders adopt your philosophy and
commitment, Jennifer—Thank you for being a powerful force for
innovation in our health care industry!


 


Here’s to Your Greatness,



Misti Burmeister