mhca Innovation Incubator May Meeting Will Focus On Entrepreneurship & Creativity In A Program Collaboration With The McColl Center For Art + Innovation
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (April 17, 2015) — The May meeting of mhca’s Innovation Incubator, being held in Charlotte, North Carolina, will focus on entrepreneurship and creativity in a new program developed in collaboration with the McColl Center for Art + Innovation’s Innovation Institute. The focus of the program is how executives can tap their own creativity – and the creativity of their teams – to address the strategic challenges of a changing health and human service market.
“Executives in the behavioral health field cannot rely on tradition, academia, policy makers or regulators to come up with new services and new service delivery models,” said Dale Shreve, chief executive officer of mhca.“Our member executives need new tools for innovation, financing, entrepreneurship, and creativity to succeed in what is a challenging market. That is the purpose of mhca’s new Innovation Incubator.”
The Innovation Incubator was created to provide mhca’s member executives with cutting edge tools and information to foster continued innovation in services and organizational management. “Our goal is to assist our members with the organizational transformations needed for them to continue to maintain their role as thought leaders in the behavioral health market space,” said Mr. Shreve. Meeting four times each year, the Innovation Incubator brings leading national experts to mhca executive sessions to discuss the wide range of management and marketing challenges to innovation.
The next session, on May 19 in Charlotte, is entitled Understanding & Fostering The Creative Process: Why It Matters. In this hands-on session, led by a professional facilitator and a McColl Center resident artist, mhca executives will gain a deeper understanding of the principles and practices of the creative process and learn how creativity can be applied to solving strategic challenges. This session builds on the idea that creativity is innate in every executive – and can be brought to bear in problem solving. The ability to bring creative perspectives to common business problems is a critical leadership skill for health and human service executives in the decade ahead. The May session will open with a briefing by OPEN MINDS chief executive officer Monica E. Oss, Success In A Changing Market: The Importance Of Entrepreneurship & Creativity, on trends in entrepreneurship in health care.
The 2015 Winter Innovation Incubator of mhca was held on February 23, 2015 in Fort Lauderdale and focused on financing for new innovative programs. The deep dive session for mhca members featured three industry leaders as faculty – Jim Triandiflou, chief executive officer of Relias Learning; Joe Pyle, chief executive officer of the Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation; and Monica E. Oss, chief executive officer of OPEN MINDS. Joe Pyle kicked off the gathering with a discussion of the innovation initiatives funded by his philanthropic, grant-making foundation. His session provided a profile of the past winners of its Innovation Awards and provided detail on opportunities for future grant funding. Jim Triandiflou led a discussion on how provider organizations can leverage private equity as a source of capital for expansion strategies. The session explored both the opportunities and challenges for non-profit provider organizations in funding growth with private capital.
mhca is an alliance of select organizations that provide behavioral health and related services. It is designed to strengthen members’ competitive position, enhance their leadership capabilities and facilitate their strategic networking opportunities. To learn more about mhca and its events, visit: https://www2.mhca.com/
For additional questions and inquiries, please contact Dale Shreve, chief executive officer of mhca at 850-942-4900 or dshreve@mhca.com and Monica E. Oss, chief executive officer of OPEN MINDS at 717-334-1329 or openminds@openminds.com.