{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Lead the People","title":"#40: Leadership as a Lifeline with Dr. Susan Landers","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1700,"description":"Dr. Susan Landers has thirty-four years of experience in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). She practiced in academic medicine (on the faculty of two medical schools) and in private practice. She authored over thirty peer-reviewed academic papers. She found her work in the demanding environment of the NICU rewarding & managed to postpone burnout until the end of her career.\nSusan and her physician husband raised three children (now all young adults) while they practiced medicine full time. She’s the author of a memoir titled So Many Babies: My Life Balancing a Busy Medical Career and Motherhood. Susan enjoys recounting some of her best, and worst, life experiences, and how she managed to stay resilient. She likes to share with other professionals what she learned along her journey as an ambitious, successful doctor.\nTop 3 Takeaways\n\nLeadership can be high-stakes. Dr. Landers’ experiences in the NICU may be unrelatable for those of us outside of medicine, but our leadership outcomes are incredibly meaningful in their own right. We need to match that intensity.\nGet personal. People handle stressful situations differently. Get to know your team members well and work hard to meet their needs while helping them perform at their best under the circumstances.\nBe the home team. Your spouse, partner, or family members may not come to work with you, but your work comes to them. Stay close to one another and co-develop strategies to meet all the demands you face together.\n\nFrom the Source\n“I enjoyed working with the babies and the moms and dads because they were sort of imagining what their children could be. It was an emotionally raw time, especially for parents who had an unexpectedly preterm or sick baby, and that drew me to that field.“\n“It's a place where there's lots of heartbreak that usually gets healed. Most of the babies recover and grow and thrive and go home. For some people—a smaller percent of the tiniest preemies and the sickest babies—the heartbreak...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/o852s7Ljq2fxvNhM2wAX6FEYs5tcnEvuQ7Pb0h1_KDE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hODhm/YzA1ZTg2MDllZThi/OTE2ZWQ4YmEyNWI0/MWRlMi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}