Decisions That Define the Next Decade: How Healthcare Executives Lead When the Playbook No Longer Works

Decisions That Define the Next Decade: How Healthcare Executives Lead When the Playbook No Longer Works

Presented by Clara Capano

Thursday April 9th, 2026
9am PT / 10am MT / 11am CT / 12pm ET

This program is scheduled for 60 minutes and is valid for 1 CHBME credit.

Member Price: $49.00
Non Member Price: $99.00

Description:
Healthcare executives are leading in an environment where certainty has eroded, complexity has intensified, and traditional leadership playbooks no longer apply. Decisions that once relied on precedent,best practices, or historical data must now be made in conditions of ambiguity, constraint, and accelerating change.

This executive-level webinar is designed to help senior healthcare leaders reframe how they make decisions when the rules are no longer clear.

Decisions That Define the Next Decade challenges executives to distinguish between decisions that manage today’s operations and decisions that will shape their organization’s long-term resilience,relevance, and performance. Rather than offering tactical tools or motivational messaging, this session provides strategic clarity for leaders navigating high-stakes choices without reliable precedent.

Participants will examine why legacy decision-making models are breaking down in healthcare, where critical decisions are being delayed or diluted, and how executives can lead decisively while balancing risk, responsibility, and innovation.
This webinar is ideal for healthcare leaders who recognize that waiting for certainty is no longer a viable strategy—and that the decisions they make now will define the next decade of their organization. 

Learning Objectives:
Course participants will be able to:

• Distinguish between operational decisions and decade-defining executive decisions in order to focus leadership attention on choices that most significantly shape long-term organizational performance and resilience.
• Apply an executive decision-making framework for leading without precedent, enabling timely, high-stakes decisions in environments marked by uncertainty, complexity, and incomplete information.
• Clarify executive decision rights, risk ownership, and accountability, improving alignment, reducing decision bottlenecks, and accelerating enterprise-level execution.

Speaker Bio:
Clara is a leadership strategist, executive facilitator, and trusted advisor to healthcare and business leaders navigating complexity, uncertainty, and transformation. She is best known for helping senior leaders bring clarity to high-stakes decisions—especially when traditional playbooks no longer apply.

With a career grounded in leadership development, organizational strategy, and executive communication, Clara works with healthcare executives, senior leadership teams, and board-adjacent leaders who are responsible for making decisions that shape long-term performance, culture, and sustainability. Her work focuses on the leadership behaviors that directly influence outcomes across financial performance, workforce stability, operational execution, and patient experience.

Clara’s approach is both strategic and practical. Rather than offering generic leadership theory or trend-based inspiration, she equips leaders with decision frameworks that can be applied immediately in complex, regulated environments. Her sessions challenge executives to examine how they are prioritizing, deciding, and leading—particularly in moments where urgency, ambiguity, and competing demands threaten focus and alignment.

Healthcare leaders are drawn to Clara’s work because she speaks directly to their reality. She understands the pressure of operating in systems where margins are tight, stakes are high, and people are stretched. Her expertise lies in helping leaders move beyond reactive leadership and into disciplined,clarity-driven decision-making that supports innovation without destabilizing operations or burning out teams.

Clara is especially sought after for executive retreats and leadership forums where candid dialogue,strategic alignment, and long-term thinking are required. Her facilitation style creates space for honest reflection while maintaining forward momentum. She is known for asking the questions leaders rarely have time to confront—and for guiding conversations that lead to meaningful alignment rather than surface-level agreement.

In her keynote and retreat sessions, Clara reframes innovation as a leadership discipline, not a technology initiative. She emphasizes that sustainable progress is driven less by tools and tactics and more by how leaders set direction, define decision rights, and model clarity under pressure. This perspective has made her a valued voice for organizations seeking to strengthen executive effectiveness in the face of accelerating change.

Clara’s work is grounded in the belief that leadership clarity is a competitive advantage. Organizations led by clear, aligned decision-makers are better positioned to execute strategy, retain talent, adapt to disruption, and deliver consistent value—regardless of external volatility.

Whether addressing a room of senior executives or facilitating an off-site leadership retreat, Clara brings rigor, insight, and respect for the complexity leaders face. Her goal is not to provide answers, but to sharpen judgment—so leaders leave better equipped to make the decisions that will define their organizations for years to come.