Coaching for clinician leaders

Reclaiming joy in the practice of leading.

Executive coaching for physicians, advanced practice providers, and emerging clinical leaders who want to lead with skill — and love the work again.

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The approach

Leadership is a practice. So is joy.

The clinicians I coach are exceptional at what they do — and many are exhausted by what leadership has asked of them. My work is helping you build the daily practice of leading with clarity, conviction, and humanity. The goal isn't just to be more effective. It's to find the work meaningful again.

Who I work with

Clinician leaders, at every stage

Physician leaders

Medical directors, division chiefs, and CMOs navigating dual identities as clinician and leader.

APP leaders

Nurse practitioners and physician assistants stepping into formal leadership and building credibility with new teams.

Emerging leaders

Clinicians in their first one to three years of leading others, often without formal preparation.

Ways to work together

Three ways in

1:1 coaching

Self-pay or sponsored

Six-month engagements for individual leaders. Twice-monthly sessions, on-call between.

Cohort programs

Health system sponsored

Small-group programs for cohorts of new and emerging leaders within a department or system.

Partnerships

By invitation

Long-term coaching pools and leadership development engagements for systems and academic centers.

Anne Pereira, MD

About Anne

Anne Pereira, MD

MD, MPH, FACP · ACC Certified Executive Coach · Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota

Anne is a practicing palliative medicine physician, Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, and an ACC-certified executive coach trained through Georgetown's Institute for Transformational Leadership. Her coaching grows out of two decades leading in academic medicine — as a residency program director, assistant dean for clinical education and curriculum, and most recently interim chair of a 350-member Department of Medicine she helped rebuild after the pandemic. She coaches the leaders she once was.

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Let's talk.

A 30-minute conversation, no obligation, to see if working together is a fit.

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anne@theleaderspractice.com