04. Superiority complex, tipping the equality scale back to center featuring Ashley Schmidt

Ashley Schmidt is the president and founder of Women in Healthcare--an international organization that promotes professional development and empowerment of women in health care. The organization supports and facilitates the growth of its members through mentorship, and by women-owned businesses sharing successful techniques, leads, contacts, products, and services. In her spare time, Ashley is also the Vice President of business development for HKS, an international design firm overseeing the design of hospitals worldwide. Ashley and Kim discuss gender equality in leadership, the importance of community, the need for evolution, and actual changes in organizations.

Show Notes

😳 Only 3% of women entered the executive development program in healthcare. 00:51

🙋‍♀️ Ashley, welcome to the show! 03:36

🚴‍♀️ Peloton nicknames and favorite instructors. 05:30

🌞 Molding or accepting your kids and coworkers for who they really are? 09:55

💉 Ashley was pricked about equality issues in healthcare leadership in 2012 and then her journey started. 11:41

🌸 Women In Healthcare was created to make a community of women and promote the professional development of each member. 15:56

💊 Healthcare has to evolve because it is on shaky ground. 19:04

🩺 Changes in organizations are essential and Women in Healthcare have tools and resources to help overcome internal barriers. 23:09

🧐 Being afraid of policy changes that could actually create a difference. 27:18

🤷‍♀️ Why do boards not hear women’s advice, ideas, and why are women talked over? 30:04

🎯 A man's world: the highest rated traits in a leader are the direct attributes and values that women have. 34:48

🗣️ ‘You will do what I say’ leadership in the healthcare mentality. 38:25

🇮🇹 What Ashley realized in Italy about the American way of life. 46:02

😇 Ashley is an over-truster. 51:56

😊 Understanding perspective when trust is broken can lead to self-improvement 53:58

😷 Now you don’t have to see someone working, pandemic taught us to have outcome-driven policies. 59:49

⚡ The essential need for evolving and re-evaluation.  1:03:17

🫂 We have pushed so far away from the community but we need a community. 1:06:12

Connect with Ashley

https://www.womeninhealthcare.org/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyschmidthks/

Connect with Kim:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-brown-sims/

https://www.facebook.com/kim.brownsims

Instagram: @kimbrownsims_

What is Pricked?

Kim Brown Sims is a board-certified senior executive, global healthcare & biotech consultant and health worker with over 35 years of experience across nonprofit, hospital and healthcare industries. Kim expresses the value of our clinical providers, nurses, doctors, social workers, mental health providers and discusses issues important to those on the front line, issues that the pandemic has brought to light, issues that have been in play for over 30 years. The Pricked podcast talks about the disruption and the innovation that's needed in health care through the policy changes that need to happen in order for us to truly make this an equitable and healthy world for all.