Program Highlights

Develop a Strategic Mindset

• Explore the relationship between strategy, market structure, and the impact of frontline activities on strategic goals.
• Unlock and apply the mystery of the strategy formation process.

Agility for the Health Care Industry

• Strengthen your grasp on policy, competitors, and trends in the health care industry.

Map the Organizational Culture

• Learn how culture is reflected in ongoing interactions.
• Determine how the various facets of culture function as six important levers for impacting organizational performance and effectiveness.

Personal Leadership

• Explore effective leadership styles and when to assume each role in different situations.
• Delve into the role of accountability and its relationship with personal development.
• Examine executive leadership: integrity, vision, innovation, and interpersonal relations.

Effectively Negotiating/Power of Persuasion

• Uncover communication methods to achieve win-win outcomes.
• Master emotional intelligence, perfect the art of persuasion, and triage difficult situations.
• Recognize how various power and influence dynamics serve and hinder leaders.

Strategic Analysis for Competitive Advantage

• Learn how to make strategic choices in an analytical and integrative manner.
• Address the challenge of sustainability, maximize the long-term value of the organization.
• Meet the challenge of changing technologies and increasing competition.

Leadership for High Performing Teams

• Understand the keys to effective people management.
• Identify different management styles and when to use them.
• Attain the skills necessary for building teams, facilitating, and leading groups.

Recordings of the online sessions will be available to the cohort members throughout the cohort year. The 10 month cohort schedule includes:

• January – Online Orientation
• February – Two day in-person session in Chicago, Illinois
• March – Online Course
• April – Online Course
• May – Online Course
• June – One day in-person session at AOA Annual Leadership Meetings
• July – Online Course
• August – Online Course
• September – Online Course
• October – Two day in-person session at USC campus in Los Angeles, California

• Identify a leadership project to incorporate the skills acquired to provide solutions valuable to you and your institution.
• Determine how to change or influence your organizational culture.
• Apply skills obtained to formulate an action plan.
• USC faculty will provide one-on-one engagement with each cohort member and feedback over the course of the 10-month project.

The AOA is honored to partner with the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, Executive Education (USC MSBEE) to provide esteemed faculty for the APEX Leadership Program. To learn more about the cohort instructors, please click here.

• Three recognized orthopaedic leaders will serve as Ambassadors for the cohort year, partnering with our expert USC faculty to enrich the course experience.
• These Ambassadors represent the concerns and priorities of orthopaedic surgeons who encounter everyday leadership challenges within health care.
• AOA Ambassadors contribute to the development of the course, contribute to course development, participate alongside learners, and serve as educators, to link executive management concepts to the work done by physician leaders.
• At the conclusion of each year, current AOA Ambassadors will select three stand-out APEX Alumni graduates to serve in this prestigious role as Ambassadors for the following year.

• Cohort graduates will emerge into an esteemed and highly coveted group of APEX alumni.
• Leadership Self-Assessment for Personal Development and Leading Teams.
• Diagnose your personal leadership style.
• Develop and expand your personal skills and amplify your success in leading others.

Orthopaedic leaders who wish to achieve prime leadership status in the orthopaedic community and in their workplace will find value in this experience. Have you considered an MBA or aspired to enhance your leadership position, but time constraints were a barrier? AOA’s signature blend of leadership development, with direct relevance to orthopaedics and issues confronting medicine, allows individuals at any stage of their career to expand their knowledge and leadership skills.