Van Ton-Quinlivan: CEO of Futuro Health (Raise the Line)

Hi, I'm Shivani. Thanks for checking out our raise the line interview series.

In which me and my cohost osmosis chief Medical Officer Dr Rishi Desai explore how to strengthen our healthcare system with some amazing leaders in medicine, technology, education and government.

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Hi, I'm Shivani and today on a raised line, I'm privileged to be joined by V Tonn Levan, who's currently the CEO for Tua Health, a nonprofit established to address the nation's allied health workforce shortage starting in California.

She also previously served as Executive Vice Chancellor for the California Community Colleges, which are the nation's largest system of higher education.

So, Van Thanks so much for being with us today. So do you mind going a bit into how was for two reformed?

And then how did you come to lead the organization? Uh Absolutely.

You know. So my career uh has done uh the private sector, the public sector and now the nonprofit sector, uh II, uh at one time headed a workforce development for a company of 20,000 men and women uh in the energy sector uh where we were able to take the company from having no opinion and workforce development into a nationally recognized industry best practice.

And then I was appointed by the Governor of California back then was Governor Brown to serve as Vice chancellor and executive vice Chancellor of the California Community Colleges.

And then that work led me to uh have this opportunity here where I can focus specifically on the health care um uh industry.

You know, say you were beginning to look into upskilling or res skilling yourself or you're a student. What advice would you would you wanna be told at this point?

Uh when so much seems to be in flux? So if, if, if I, if you went through a series of pro provocative questions, like, um you know, if everything wrote and repetitious in your profession is going to become automated and can be done by machines, then what kind of work will value the human touch?

Right? So what kind of work would value the human touch?

I mean, if you spend some time thinking about it, you would be able to think. OK, well, let's build, let's move more in that direction and less in some other directions.

So I think if you start thinking through some of these provocations about the 10 year future, then you can determine you begin to think.

OK, am I moving my skill set in, in a direction that is more consistent with the 10 year future or am I uh moving my skill set or, or are my skill sets going to stagnate uh with, with the current?

So those are some exercises that I think we can all go through just to reflect on our um you know, uh how, how do we stay ahead and how do we keep current?

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