You didn’t step into healthcare leadership by accident—and you’re not meant to lead on empty.
Leading With Purpose: Making Your Dream Work in Healthcare is a powerful, NAB-aligned leadership experience created for healthcare administrators and other healthcare leaders who are ready to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the heart behind their leadership. In the middle of regulations, staffing challenges, and daily demands, it’s easy to lose sight of the why. This training helps you find it again—and lead from it.
Through meaningful conversation, practical strategy, and guided reflection, you’ll gain clarity around your leadership vision, strengthen your confidence, and learn how to move purpose into action in real, sustainable ways. Together, we’ll explore how to lead with intention, build strong and engaged teams, navigate challenges with resilience, and make decisions that align with both your values and your organization’s mission.
You’ll leave refreshed, refocused, and equipped—with a clear leadership vision, a practical action plan, and renewed confidence to lead well, serve well, and make a lasting impact in the lives of those you’re called to serve.
Come as you are.
Leave grounded, empowered, and leading with purpose.
This training includes excerpts from the book “Put Your Dream to the Test” by John Maxwell and taught by Maxwell Certified Leadership Trainer, Speaker and Coach, Butch Jefferson.
NAB/NCERS: 5 CEU’s
LEARNING OBJECTIVES (NAB-Aligned | Healthcare Administrators)
By the end of Leading With Purpose: Making Your Dream Work in Healthcare, participants will be able to:
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Articulate a clear, purpose-driven leadership vision that aligns with their organization’s mission, regulatory responsibilities, and commitment to quality care.
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Assess personal leadership strengths, habits, and limitations to support sound decision-making, accountability, and effective administrative leadership.
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Apply strategies to reignite passion and purpose in their leadership role to improve staff engagement, morale, and quality outcomes.
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Develop a practical leadership action plan using a structured pathway model to translate vision into measurable, achievable steps within their healthcare organization.
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Identify and engage key team members and stakeholders to strengthen collaboration, communication, and shared ownership of organizational goals.
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Evaluate the emotional, financial, and operational costs of leadership decisions, balancing personal well-being with organizational sustainability and compliance demands.
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Implement resilience and tenacity practices that support consistency, adaptability, and perseverance in the face of regulatory pressure, staffing challenges, and operational change.
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Examine fulfillment and long-term significance in leadership, ensuring their administrative role positively impacts staff, residents, patients, families, and the broader healthcare community.
Instructor: Salvatore (Butch) Jefferson, Jr., M.Ed. – Maxwell Leadership Certified Trainer
We are excited to welcome Butch Jefferson back for another year of leadership training with VACE. With his dynamic personality and engaging facilitation style, Butch naturally connects with his audience, making him an exceptional leadership facilitator. With a master’s in education, he understands the importance that education plays in a leader’s success. Previous trainees have expressed that his enthusiasm for learning and his compassion for leaders is evident in every training he presents. He emphasizes essential leadership principles and core values that foster both personal growth and professional excellence, all while keeping the experience fun and interactive.
Butch’s dedication to leadership and service extends beyond the training room, demonstrated by his extensive community involvement. He is the Immediate Past President of the Home Builders Association of Central Virginia and serves as an Executive Board member at the state level with the Home Builders Association of Virginia. Butch also contributes to various organizations, including the Realtors Political Action Committee, the Kiwanis Club of Forest, Mustache4Kids, and the Lynchburg Regional Business Alliance, where he acts as an Ambassador. Additionally, he proudly supports the Central Virginia Business Coalition as an Annual Sponsor. Above all, Butch treasures his role as a father to his two sons, Trey and Jaxon.
