ACHE FACE-TO-FACE WORKSHOP

Managing and Optimizing the Human Margin from Fostering Flourishing Teams

Thursday, November 2  |  2:30 – 5:30 p.m.

With employee burnout, disengagement, and departure from the field of health care, maintaining a healthy and flourishing workforce is one of the greatest challenges facing organizations today. The research on what is driving turnover, burnout, and disengagement is not what you might think. This highly interactive seminar translates decades of research into evidence-based strategies to maximize the odds of successfully sustaining a thriving workforce.

Objectives:
• Discuss elements that support human flourishing.
• Identify organizational and team strategies to optimize recruitment and retention.
• Explore the role of job crafting and empowering leadership in engaging the workforce.
• Discover evidence-based strategies for improving individual and organizational resilience.

3.0 Continuing Education Hours Applied For: ACHE Face-to-Face, Certified Professional Healthcare Quality Hours, Compliance Hours, Continuing Legal Education, Nursing Contact Hours, and Risk Management Hours


Meet Katherine A. Meese, PhD
Katherine A. Meese, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Services Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She also serves as the director of wellness research in the UAB Medicine Office of Wellness, director for the Center for Healthcare Management and Leadership, and program director for the Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Leadership. She earned her PhD in health services administration with a specialization in strategic management from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and joined the faculty in 2020. 

Meese has several years of industry experience that encompassed work in 10 countries on four continents, including management within a large academic medical center. She is a co-author of two textbooks on organizational behavior in healthcare that are used in healthcare management programs across the country. Her research has been published in Anesthesia & Analgesia, Health Services Management Research, Journal of Health Administration Education, Health Care Management Review and various other journals. Her research interests are in organizational behavior, leadership, well-being, and delivery models that enhance organizational learning. 

Katherine A. Meese, PhD

Assistant Professor/Health Services Administration

UAB Birmingham