Medical Residents

THE WHY BEHIND THE PROGRAM

Medicine runs through my family — my father, uncle, brothers, cousins, and now my daughter are all physicians. I've spent years coaching doctors and executives, but watching my own daughter go through residency changed everything. 

I saw up close how much residents are asked to carry — clinically, emotionally, and as emerging leaders — and how little structured support exists to help them build the resilience, self-management, and leadership skills they'll need for the rest of their careers.

I created this program because residents shouldn't have to wait until they're burned out to get real support, and they shouldn't have to navigate the hardest years of their training alone. That's why every session is built around the realities of residency, designed to fit schedules with no room to spare. They're time-efficient, experiential, and focused on real-time challenges, so residents leave with tools they can apply immediately.

THE DATA IS NOT AMBIGUOUS

• 40–60% of residents experience burnout during training.
• 1 in 3 residents meets criteria for depressive symptoms.
• $141,240 is the annual cost of training a single resident — making retention and wellbeing a bottom-line issue, not just a human one.

Coaching is one of the few interventions with randomized controlled trial evidence behind it. Programs that add coaching see measurable improvements in burnout, resilience, and communication.

WHAT THE PROGRAM LOOKS LIKE

The Resident Leadership & Wellbeing Program combines individual coaching sessions with monthly group coaching, giving residents both private support and structured peer connection throughout their training year. 

Residents meet with highly trained, ICF-credentialed coaches who serve as thinking partners and guides. Coaches help residents identify patterns in their own behavior, gain new perspectives, and leave with specific, practical tools they can apply immediately.

Individual Coaching Sessions

Private sessions that help residents work through real-time challenges. Topics include professional identity and leadership development, managing communication and emotions under pressure, and navigating conflict across services and departments. Residents gain a confidential space to think, practical tools they can use right away, and stronger leadership and communication skills.

Group Coaching Sessions

Monthly facilitated sessions that normalize common struggles and solve problems in real time. Residents build cohort connection, share strategies across rotations and roles, and course-correct early — before small issues escalate. Coaches provide program directors with periodic, de-identified reports on the themes and dynamics surfacing across the cohort, offering early insight into what's affecting resident performance while fully protecting individual confidentiality.

Interactive Workshops

Optional workshops can be added to kick off the program. Each session includes a communication styles assessment for every participant and is highly interactive by design — giving residents practical tools they can apply immediately to build self-awareness, strengthen collaboration, and navigate conflict more effectively.

PROVEN RESULTS

In a recent leadership and communication workshop with surgical residents, the response was overwhelmingly positive:

• 97% of residents would recommend the training to other residents.
• 4.67 / 5 average rating for overall value.
• 95% rated the experience a 4 or 5 out of 5.

Most telling of all: without being prompted, residents repeatedly asked for the training to be expanded to incoming interns and attendings, so the whole team could share a common language for communication and leadership.

HOW YOUR PROGRAM BENEFITS

• Clinical — Residents who can regulate their emotional responses and make better decisions under pressure.
• Professional — Residents who understand their own communication style and appreciate differences in others.
• Retention — Residents who feel genuinely supported and cared about by their program.
• Cultural — Teams that communicate well, make fewer errors, and function better under intense conditions.

A NOTE ON THE APPROACH

This program is grounded in ICF-credentialed coaching methodology, emotional intelligence research, and the neuroscience of stress and performance. It's a structured, evidence-informed intervention that develops the self-awareness, communication skills, and emotional regulation that residency demands and rarely teaches.