LEADERSHIP COACHING

Attending Physician & Executive Leadership Coaching

You made it to the top. Now what?

THE VIEW FROM THE SUMMIT

You’ve summited, attending physician, new CEO, department chair, team lead, and a few uninvited questions show up anyway: Did they pick the wrong person? Did I climb the wrong mountain? How long do I want to stay up here?

Nobody prepares you for the summit, only the climb. As a clinician, you could walk in on day one and start seeing patients, the skills transferred directly. Leadership doesn’t work that way.

That gap is part of why I pursued an MBA, studying management built around actual outcomes, not assumptions. I’ve mentored people through exactly this moment across medicine, academia, business, government, and the nonprofit world.

The mountain looks different depending on the field. The questions at the top are the same, and wondering what comes next isn’t a sign something went wrong, it’s the actual job.

FOR LEADERS

  • We start with an honest assessment, not assumptions.

    Where your leadership is genuinely strong, where it’s untested, and where the transition is quietly straining you, before we decide what to work on.

  • This is onboarding for the parts of the job nobody onboards you for.

    Clinical training prepared you to treat patients. It didn’t prepare you to manage a team, navigate a board, or read a room full of people who now report to you.

  • We understand the psychology, not just the org chart.

    Communication style, self-awareness, and how people actually experience being led by you, these are often the real variable, not strategy.

  • We’ve mentored across sectors.

    Medicine, academia, business, government, nonprofits, the summit questions repeat themselves everywhere, and we’ve heard most of the variations.

  • We won’t just tell you that you deserve to be there.

    Confidence-building matters, but so does an honest read on what’s actually not working yet. You get both.

  • This can be confidential, by design.

    Leaders don’t always have a safe place to admit “we’re not sure we want this anymore”, we can be that place, without it touching your organization.

HOW THE DR. CHAN ILLUMINATE PROGRAM APPLIES HERE

  • 01 — DISCOVER

    A direct conversation about what the summit actually feels like right now, including the parts you haven’t said out loud yet.

  • 02 — DIAGNOSE

    A real assessment, self-awareness, communication style, how others actually experience your leadership, read with the same rigor we’d bring to reading a file, so we know exactly where the friction is.

  • 03 — BUILD THE NARRATIVE

    We find the honest version of your leadership story, including any doubt in it, because the polished version isn’t the useful one.

  • 04 — REFINE THE CRAFT

    Communication, presence, and decision-making get sharpened for the specific room you’re now standing in.

  • 05 — STAND BEHIND YOU

    Whether you stay at this summit, climb a different one, or decide the view isn’t what you expected, we’re still here through that decision.

WHAT DOES THE LATEST DATA SAY?

  • 41.9%

    Physician burnout is improving, but still high.

    41.9% of physicians reported at least one burnout symptom in 2025, down from a pandemic peak of 62.8% in 2021.

    Source: AMA National Physician Burnout Survey

  • 44%

    Attending physicians are reconsidering their path more, not less.

    44% of physicians said they’d considered leaving medical practice since the start of 2026, up from 35% the year before.

    Source: MedCentral, 2026 Evolution of Medical Practice Survey

  • 27–46%

    Executive transitions fail more often than most people assume.

    Research cited by McKinsey found that two years after a CEO transition, between 27% and 46% are considered failures or disappointments.

    Source: McKinsey & Company

  • 2×

    The right support cuts that risk substantially.

    Executive coaching and structured onboarding plans have been shown to roughly double the likelihood of a successful transition, yet only around 32% of organizations actually use them.

    Source: Avenue Leadership Consulting, citing HBR/SHRM research

  • +16%

    CEO turnover is climbing, not slowing.

    234 CEOs of globally listed companies departed their roles in the most recent year tracked — up 16% year-over-year.

    Source: Russell Reynolds Associates, 2026

The honest read: reaching the summit doesn’t come with an instruction manual, and a meaningful share of people who get there struggle more than anyone around them realizes. That’s not a personal failing, it’s the norm the data describes. The Dr. Chan Illuminate Program exists for exactly that moment.

PRICING

THE ASSESSMENT

Best for: A single, confidential discovery session
Price: $800
Payment: Pay in full

THE FULL PROGRAM

Best for: A 6-month leadership partnership, all five steps
Price: $18,000
Deposit: $1,800
Payment plan: $3,600/month × 5

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A 6-month payment plan is available on any package at the same total, divided differently, if a lower monthly payment is preferred.

Whatever summit you’re standing on right now, there’s a place to start the conversation.