Professor Christine Porath is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business and helps organizations build thriving workplaces. She's the author of the award winning books, Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace and Mastering Community: The surprising ways coming together moves us from surviving to thriving. Her speaking and consulting clients include Google, United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Genentech, Marriott, National Institute of Health, Department of Labor, Department of the Treasury, Department of Justice, and National Security Agency.

Christine has written for the Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, McKinsey Quarterly, Washington Post, Psychology Today, and Thrive Global. She serves on the Advisory Council for the Partnership for Public Service. Porath has been recognized as a Top 100 Leadership Speaker and Top MBA Professors of 2017. Her work has been featured on 20/20, Today, FoxNews, CNN, BBC, NBC, msnbc, CBS, ABC, NPR, Time, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Fortune, Forbes, NY Times, The Washington Post, L.A. Times and other outlets.

In this episode we ask her about:

• Her amazing career
• Research
• Incivility
• Advice for medical students and doctors

Christine Porath: http://www.christineporath.com/

Mastering Civility: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Civility-Manifesto-Christine-Porath/dp/1455568988

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Dr Aidan Fowler is the National Director of Patient Safety in England and a Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health and Social Care. Aidan started off his career as a surgeon, working as a consultant colorectal surgeon in Gloucestershire for 10 years. He then transitioned into a series of senior leadership roles including Director of NHS Quality Improvement and Patient Safety and Director of the 1000 Lives Improvement Service for NHS Wales, with responsibility for quality improvement and patient safety across the Welsh NHS. Currently he is the National Medical Director for Patient Safety. Aidan also trained as an Improvement Advisor with the Insittute of Healthcare Improvement in Boston. In this episode we ask him about:

• His career
• Patient safety
• Leadership
• Advice for medical students and doctors

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Professor Sir Bruce Keogh started off his career as a cardiac surgeon, eventually becoming professor of cardiac surgery at University College London. He then transitioned into leadership roles most notably of which he was the National Medical Director of NHS England for 10 years, during which he helped implement a whole raft of changes that shaped the state of our NHS. He is widely recognised as one of the UK's leading medics and was knighted for services to medicine in 2003.

In this episode we ask him about:

• His career
• Cardiac surgery
• Leadership
• Future of the NHS
• Advice for medical students and doctors

Bruce Keogh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Keogh

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