Kinected: A Guide for Optimizing Leadership Performance, Effectiveness, and Joy from the Inside Out

Are you looking for a new perspective on the unique connection and intersection between personal balance and your ability to effectively lead other people?

Kinected will give you insights and actions to accelerate your ability to influence the culture of an organization and achieve excellent performance—both personally and professionally. You will understand the importance of your body's kinetic chain and its relevance to the kinetic chain of an organization.

As a nurse, health care performance executive, leadership scholar, and a balance and health zealot, Dr. Susan Glover will share her knowledge, experience, and others’ stories. Alongside her journey studying leadership and organizational alignment, Dr. Glover’s doctoral studies enabled an understanding of the connection of leading yourself first, then others. You will be motivated to make practical changes to start the journey to being an effective leader of yourself and others.

Be the Chief Culture Officer of your life and your organization.

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Susan serves as the founder and CEO of Tour de Force Partners following a successful career in leading multiple executive service lines in provider-based health care. Her goal is to bring twenty-five years of executive leadership experience and her doctoral studies in Organizational Leadership to create positive change in leaders and their organization's performance.

Susan also serves as a Vice President & Senior Consultant with HealthSearch Partners. HealthSearch Partners was founded in 2017 by veterans of the health care executive search business and is nationally recognized for a highly personalized, results-driven approach.

Susan served as the Chief Quality Officer for Adventist HealthCare, located in Gaithersburg, Maryland, from 2001 to 2023 where she established governance and strategies to drive continuous and accountable processes for measuring and improving the quality and appropriateness of patient care services. This included leading system-wide performance management approaches and deployment, clinical effectives, and electronic medical record optimization. She served on several boards focused on quality, safety, and prevention of domestic violence and abuse including serving as the chair of the Maryland Patient Safety Center. She currently serves on the Generation Hope board while pursuing a deeper understanding of the art and science of leadership.

Susan's passion for organizational effectiveness, leadership, and governance inspired her studies at Hood College, where in 2020, she received her Doctorate in Organizational Leadership. Susan also has her MHA from University of Maryland, University College, College Park, Maryland (1989) and a BSN from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (1980). As an author and CEO, Susan now focuses on creating positive change for leaders and their team’s performance.

Susan focuses on physical training, yoga, family time, travel, and quiet time at the beach for restoration and balance. Her favorite leadership quote is from Ronald Reagan: “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one who gets the people to do the greatest things.”