The Leadership Sandwich

Bite-Sized Lessons for Busy Leaders

Key Insights For:

Healthcare
Leadership

Personal Growth

Transformation

Team Building

176 Pages

$22.49

Non-Fiction

Soft Cover

ISBN: 979-8-97350-6

leadership bites.

bite back.

The Leadership Sandwich serves up bite-sized lessons based on
stories that depict the everyday realities of being a leader in healthcare.


Peppered with insights and thought-provoking discussion questions to
spawn learning and growth for readers—key ingredients for personal
and professional success!


The book is divided into sections on personal growth, team dynamics,
and organizational development. Insights for busy leaders are called
out for easy review.


Discussion questions at the end of each chapter provoke deep thinking
and sometimes controversy, proving there’s no one-size-fits-all recipe
for leadership.

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Nurse’s Week

As I toured each unit that day, it was so
refreshing to see everyone’s guard
delightfully down. It has been said that
great organizations are built one
conversation at a time. My experience as
Florence Nightingale initiated many new
conversations, thanks to the nearly one
hundred

interactions I enjoyed with nurses and
other staff members that day.


Almost a decade later, nurses still vividly
recount Florence’s stroll through the halls
of the hospital. They don’t remember the
costume or the strident edicts from their
managers to participate. Still, they
undoubtedly recall the unexpected time
they shared a moment of laughter with
their CNO.

By choosing something other than going
with the flow, I could leave the
constraints, both real and perceived, of
the executive corridor behind and show
the nurses who I was as a person. I freed
myself to be lighthearted and
spontaneous with them, and yes, even
take a selfie or two along the way.


Staying fluid and open about my
professional role, including those random
“other duties as assigned-type things,”
can be joyful awakenings that lead to
new, positive connections to staff and
coworkers. Our nursing organization was
changed forever.

Peek Inside

The examples are practical, relatable, and provide humorous
scenarios that allow the reader to step back from a situation,
regroup, reassess, and re-enter with a more helpful perspective. I
encourage nurses, at any level, to keep this handy as a reference
for how to create and maintain a workplace culture that empowers
them to optimize their own self-care as well as their patients' care.

Powerful stories,

in 'bite size pieces'!

As a learning & development professional who
has worked with nurse leaders for over 25
years, I can share with confidence that The
Leadership Sandwich absolutely hits the mark.
This little book is filled with powerful,
compelling stories that challenge the way we
look at nursing leadership with wonderful,
thought-provoking questions to explore with
peers following each story. Can't wait to kick off
our Nurse Manager Book Club!

Practical and powerful
reference for healthcare
managers

EXCELLENT
LEADER
RESOURCE!

The lessons ring
true,

no matter what
industry you are in

I've been in healthcare for 50
years and still learned a lot
from this book! It's great for we
seasoned leaders and the
newest...tried and true lessons
from which we can all learn
and improve.

I enjoyed every bite!

I bought this book for my
manager for Nurses Week. As
I perused the chapters, I
realized the book was a gift for
me too, as a nurse! Not only do
I better appreciate the
challenges of being a
healthcare leader today, I also
learned about how to be more
powerful and impactful in my
practice (Mirror, Mirror is a
must read). Enjoy every bite!

Great for all leaders!

what are readers
saying?

Reviews

Through story-telling, the authors offer unique insights
and tools that engage and enable leaders to address the
challenges we face in healthcare organizations today.

FORMER CHIEF NURSING OFFICER,

ADVOCATE HEALTH

Mary Beth Kingston

Medland and Moore have masterfully prepared a
banquet of guidance for leaders at all levels. Drawing on
their experiences from the front lines of healthcare, the
stories they share remind us of the humanity required for
building and supporting teams. This book is a must read
for anyone aspiring to make a difference in their
enterprises.


MANAGING PARTNER

7 WIRE VENTURES

Lee Shapiro

This book is a go-to resource for busy leaders, best
sampled as opposed to gulped down all at once. Leaders
can consult the stories, insights, or discussion questions
when they need it, and there’s no pressure to meet a
deadline of any kind — for once.


CHIEF NURSE EXECUTIVE

STANFORD HEALTH

Dale Beatty

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  • An executive with over thirty-five years’ experience and an unrelenting
    focus on quality, patient safety and advancing health delivery systems,
    Moore has served as a Chief Nursing Officer at a Corporate, System
    and Magnet facility levels. In addition to serving on multiple advisory
    boards, Moore holds several patents and trademarks for healthcare
    innovations and leadership models.

Journals

  • Journal of Nursing
    Administration
  • Nurse Leader
  • Nursing Management
  • Presentations
  • Mastering Difficult
    Conversations
  • Nurse Health & Wellness
  • Reshaping Healthcare’s Future
  • The New Era of Partnership

Jacqueline “Jackie” Medland Ph.D., R.N.,
NEA-BC

  • Now a consultant, speaker and
    Clinical Associate Professor of
    healthcare leadership and innovation
    at Arizona State University, Dr.
    Medland shares hard-won lessons
    from her expansive career, spanning
    four decades. With humor and heart,
    she unpacks leadership strategies
    for navigating complex challenges
    and empowering teams.
    Underpinning it all is her unwavering
    belief that every individual can
    leverage their own power to enact
    change.

Martie Moore, MAOM, R.N., CPHQ

  • Articles
  • Nursing workforce
    issues
  • Impact of human err
    factor
  • Cultural transformation
  • Presentations
  • Leading in turbulant
    times
  • Engaging the head and
    heart
  • Using AI to combat HAI


Jackie’s passion for developing
leaders is captured in articles
and speaking engagements
across the country.

  • Recent examples* include:
  • Martie’s expertise on industry
    trends has been sought out by
    Wall Street Journal and United
    Kingdom Huffington Post. She is
    a regular columnist for
    McKnight. Recent topics*
    include:

*Contact the authors for a full list / details

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