Kathy Boden Holland: Group President, Adtalem Global Education (Raise the Line)

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Hi, I'm Sugar Glan. And today on Raise the line, I'm happy to be joined by Cathy Bowden Holland, who's the group president of Medical and healthcare Education at a Talam Global Education.

A Tellem is a leading workforce solutions provider in the medical healthcare and financial services industries. So can you tell us a little bit more about your career and what brought you to aim and specifically in healthcare education?

Sure. Uh My background is really uh uh probably nontraditional for this space or somebody in this role, I really have a background of helping to build both companies and new products and, and grow them uh both in privately held organizations as well as public traded organizations that work has been in consulting um uh some investment banking, some uh startup entrepreneurial work, but all really in the healthcare and financial services space.

So I actually uh originally joined a Talam as a board member about four years ago. And then uh uh just over two years ago, Lisa Wardell asked me to take on this role um responsible for medical and health care.

And it's, it, I had become such a believer in the mission and the people at Adam and what was happening both uh across the organization but also within our students, that it was an exciting opportunity I wanted to take on.

Do you have any advice for people who are considering careers in healthcare? At this point?

My advice for folks who are going into healthcare is probably not that much different than my advice to anyone who's entering a, a new profession, right, which is um bring your passion to the, to your work every day.

Um Expect that there are gonna be great days and there are gonna be tough days and it may be tough weeks. Um but you know, take care of yourself, go home, get rest, do as my father used to say, get a good night's sleep and wake up in the morning and do it again, right?

Take that mountain one way or the other. But I'd also say that I think this is probably one of the most interesting and dynamic times to enter this space, right.

Health care is always changing. I mean, um I'd love to say that I started my career just last year, but it's been a little while and I was drawn to healthcare because it was changing so much, right?

And it was so interesting and there was the opportunity to make that change happen and, and, and now is the time for that as well.

But at the same time, I think they really need to embrace the core of what drew them to this, right, which is patient care and really kind of that one on one impact.

Um I do believe a lot of the change that we're seeing and we'll continue to see is this view of community health, right?

How do we all impact each other? Hopefully that we will continue to learn um and that our healthcare providers uh not just providers but people who are in healthcare, whether that be via public health or social work or um administration or all the other ways that uh impact what's going on in our system.

Um Our enthusiastic participation participants in that change um because it's, it's complicated and it's gonna take a while, but I think we have an opportunity um to really make positive change as, as you described.

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