The Leadership Studio is passionate about helping you develop your leadership capacity. Drawing from more than 25 years of healthcare leadership experience, we offer concrete steps and practices that take you on a journey to Leadership Valor™ – the ability to leverage your experience and wisdom in ways that accelerate the process of providing excellent healthcare.

On the way, you’ll gain:

• New ways of thinking about how you engage as a leader, increasing and building on the strengths you already possess, in a way that is both feasible and sustainable.
• Guidance to help you move beyond barriers and roadblocks and let go of all that is counterproductive.
• Strategies for claiming your own version of Leadership Valor and sustaining it with efficacy, personal satisfaction, and solace.
• Access to the leadership assets that are already within you.
• A greater sense of ease with yourself and all you have to contribute.
• The level of support you want and need.

Work with us the way that works best for you.

We offer a range of processes and programs to support you, your healthcare team and your organization on your journey to leadership excellence. Whether you’re looking for a system-wide engagement or one-on-one coaching, we can design and customize any of the following options to fit your needs.

• Executive Coaching
• Leader Retreats
• Team Coaching & Consulting
• Speaking and Seminars for Leadership Growth
• Workshops & Virtual Learning

We partner with many local, regional and national organizations devoted to professional excellence in healthcare management. Some examples of current and previous clients and partners include:

• American Nurses Association
• American Organization of Nurse Executives
• Arizona State University School of Business
• Association of University Programs in Health Administration
• Barton Healthcare
• California Institute for Nursing and Healthcare
• California Pacific Medical Center/Sutter Health
• Cascade Health
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Center for the Health Professions
• Children’s Hospital of Orange County
• College of American Pathologists
• Dental Health Foundation
• Healthcare Forum (Now Health Forum/American Hospital Association)
• Healthcare Research and Educational Trust
• Health Quality Educational Foundation
• Kaiser Permanente
• Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
• MedAmerica/California Emergency Physicians
• Medical Group Management Association
• Nashville General Hospital
• National Cancer Institute
• National Council of State Boards of Nursing
• National League for Nursing
• Northwestern University/Kellogg School of Management
• Nursing Institute of the MidSouth
• O’Connor Hospital
• Public Health Institute
• State University of New York
• Sutter Modesto
• The American College of Physician Executives
• The University of Colorado School of Business
• University of California San Francisco
• Wishard Health System

“Catherine Robinson-Walker was simply amazing in her facilitation of our board of director’s assessment. She led us through a 360 evaluation and board self-assessment that was second to none. Her professionalism, sense of humor, and knowledge in her field made for a fast-paced, fun filled day.”
– Faith Fields, MSN, RN
Past President, National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc.

“Catherine Robinson-Walker has a unique talent for working with executives at all levels and is able to pull groups together to achieve a common purpose, while simultaneously making everyone feel that they have grown as individuals.”
– Katherine W. Vestal, Ph.D.
Former Partner and Senior Consultant, Cap Gemini Ernst and Young

“I enthusiastically recommend the Leadership Studio. The coaching helped me to strengthen my leadership skills, and I was challenged to think, feel and act as a leader.”
– Sandra Davis, Ph.D., R.N.
Former President, California Association of Nurse Leaders
Former Chief Nursing Officer, San Joaquin General Hospital

“Our trainer, Cathy Robinson-Walker was by far the best that anyone on this executive [team] had experienced. We thought that it might be hard for a civilian trainer to work with a military group, but Cathy worked with aplomb and grace and really helped the group to tease out the major issues of our reorganization and come to a working plan of what could be done with the related concerns.”
– Elaine J. Huggins
Director, Education and Performance Improvement (EPI)
30th Medical Group, Vandenberg Air Force Base

“Robinson-Walker imparts her vast knowledge and experience in leadership development and executive coaching to provide leaders with an innovative, step-by-step approach for leading valiantly: to do what matters most, to make a difference in healthcare – one leader and one organization at a time.”
– Lynda Olender, MA, RN, NEA-BC
Director of Nursing and Patient Care Services, Rockefeller University Hospital

“Catherine Robinson-Walker is the premier resource for innovative leadership growth and training. She is results-oriented, creative, attentive, supportive and dedicated to the task. Most important, the people and organizations she works with are moved from where they are to where they authentically want to go.”
– Jo Ellen Koerner, Ph.D., RN, VP Learning Strategies, Interactive Think.com, Former President, American Organization Of Nurse Executives

“Robinson-Walker’s map for understanding how to lead valiantly paves a path forward. Her message is both clear and inspirational; if leaders follow the call to lead with valor, both people and organizations will be transformed.”
– Kathleen Stinnett, MCC
Founder of Future Launch and author of The Extraordinary Coach: How the Best Leaders Help Others Grow