Agenda Announced For The 2024 OPEN MINDS Executive Leadership Retreat – Learn From Carelon, Shepard Pratt, Pathways & More!

GETTYSBURG, PA (May 12, 2024)— September 24-26, 300+ health and human services executives will gather in Gettysburg, PA for The 2024 OPEN MINDS Executive Leadership Retreat. This immersive event offers health and human services leaders the opportunity to refresh their perspective on strategic leadership, workforce resilience, and organizational growth opportunities in an increasingly competitive market.

The retreat will feature industry thought leaders throughout more than 15 sessions, two half-day best practice seminars, a full-day executive summit, and five experiential leadership activities.

Featured keynote presenters include:

• Navigating Uncertainty: What History Can Teach Us About Modern Leadership, featuring Jeff McCausland, Ph.D., Former Colonel, United States Army
• Leading Clinical Teams Through Challenging Times: The Carelon Perspective, featuring James A. Polo, M.D., MBA, Chief Medical Officer, Carelon Behavioral Health

Featured sessions include:
(view the full agenda at https://leadership.openminds.com/agenda/)

• Beyond The Blueprint – Identifying & Refining Your Optimal Organizational Structure, featuring Christopher Keck, DBH, LPC, CPM, President & Chief Executive Officer, Open Hearts Family Wellness, and Harsh Trivedi, M.D., MBA, President & Chief Executive Officer, Sheppard Pratt
• A Click & A Hard Place – Three Areas Of Liability For Your Risk Management Audit, featuring Jamie R. Williamson, District Director, U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission and Colbey Raegan, Co-Practice Group Leader Of Healthcare Regulatory & Enforcement, Holland & Knight
• Creating Your High-Performing Leadership Team, featuring Janet Butler, Chief Executive Officer, Community Systems, Inc., and Lauren Sclesky, Chief Executive Officer, Versicare Group
• Health Care Workers Are Struggling With Their Own Well-Being: What We Can Do To Help Them?, featuring Rebekah Law, Chief Of Staff, Volunteers of America Northern Rockies
• Parting Ways With Tradition – Embracing Strategic Change & Crafting A Future-Ready Identity, featuring Hattie Tracy, Chief Executive Officer, Coleman Health Services, and Steve Wigginton, Chief Executive Officer, Clarvida (Formerly known as Pathways)

Featured experiences include:

• *New This Year* The Women Of Gettysburg: Morning Walking Tour; The women of Gettysburg are a lesser discussed, but integral part of the Civil War battle, serving as nurses, burying the dead, and even at times disguising themselves as soldiers. In this inspirational experience, the tales of their dedication, heroism and struggles will be brought back to life.
• The Eisenhower Leadership Perspective: Eisenhower Farm Tour; Discover the principles of General Eisenhower’s unique leadership approach with emphasis on study, contingency planning, and being surrounded by diverse opinions in this one-of-a-kind experience.
• *New This Year* Following In Lincoln’s Footsteps: A Leadership Walking Tour; Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, left a lasting impact on Gettysburg in just 24 hours. Follow in his footsteps and walk the very same path that led to his delivery of the Gettysburg Address in the National Cemetery.
• The Communications Challenge In Times Of Turbulence: The Pickett’s Charge Case Study & Battlefield Tour; Retrace the steps of General Robert E. Lee and General James Longstreet as they made decisions that would ultimately determine the outcome of not only the Battle of Gettysburg, but of the entire Civil War.
• *New This Year* Going Beyond The Battle: The 2024 Gettysburg Museum Tour; Experience the Beyond The Battle Museum, voted the “Best New Museum” in the country by USA TODAY 10Best readers, for eyewitness accounts and true stories of what happened before, during, and after the Civil War. 

The institute will also offer two best practice seminars on Tuesday, February 24, 2024.

• How To Develop A Strategic Plan: The 2024 OPEN MINDS Executive Seminar On Best Practices In Strategy, Portfolio Management & Scenario-Based Planning led by Joseph P. Naughton-Travers, EdM, Senior Associate, OPEN MINDS
• Building A Digital Transformation Roadmap – Aligning Technology, Team, & Processes For Superior Consumer Experience & Engagement: The 2024 OPEN MINDS Seminar led by Carol Clayton, Ph.D., Senior Associate, OPEN MINDS.

Plus, the all-day 2024 OPEN MINDS Health & Human Services Workforce Best Practices Summit on February 25^th, 2024 featuring leaders from Clarvida (Formerly Pathways), Emergence Health Network, Versicare Group, and Volunteers of America Northern Rockies.

Institute and Summit registration is an included benefit for partners and OPEN MINDS Circle Elite members. Registration is now open for this premier institute at https://openminds.com/register-now-elr2/. For more information on registration, sponsorship opportunities, or media inquiries, contact the Executive Education & Events team at 717-334-1329 or events@openminds.com.

Institute Partners:

• Premier Partners:  Core Solutions, NephU, Netsmart, PsychU, Qualifacts
• Gold Partners: Alera Health (Formerly Blaze Advisors), Easterseals Midwest, Easterseals PORT Health, LifeSkills, Netsmart, Otsuka Market Access, Project HOME, Volunteers Of America
• Affiliate Education Sponsors: 5e Analytics, Altruix Pharmacy, Augintel, Brightside Health, Cantata Health Solutions, Carelon Behavioral Health, CCNY Inc., Continuum Cloud, Inc., Eleos Health, Exym, Five Points Technology Group, Genoa Healthcare, Grafton Integrated Health Network, Hartman Executive Advisors, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, Axiom EHR, i3 Healthcare Solutions, iCareManager, iCentrix Analytics, Inovalon, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc., MedSuite, Mend, Mertz-Taggart, NextGen, Optum, Owl, SimiTree, Streamline Healthcare Solutions, The Bi Collaborative, Therapy Brands, Vista Research Group, Vista Care, Waypoint Interactive, ZMark Health

About OPEN MINDS

OPEN MINDS is a national market intelligence, management consulting, and marketing services firm specializing exclusively in the markets of the health and human service field that serve consumers with chronic conditions and complex support needs. OPEN MINDS mission is to provide payers, service provider organizations, and technology and scientific firms that serve these consumers with the market and management knowledge needed to improve their organizational efficiency and effectiveness.