How to Find the Courage to Lead with Carol Gray

In today's episode host Leah Wuitschik interviews her mother! Carol Gray is an incredibly experienced healthcare leader who has had a career working and leading in a number of unique areas. Hear about her time working as a nurse in a very rural Northern Alberta community, working as a public health nurse, and her leadership in both public/ population health and acute care. She also shares her experiences leading the H1N1 response and the parallels she sees now with COVID19.

Throughout all of this she talks honestly about the incredibly challenging situations which required her to find her courage to go forward. Faced with very vocal opposition over controversial decisions she has had to choose how to move forward and face that opposition. Finally, she shares suggestions as to how healthcare leaders can find their courage and draw on it to do the right thing.