Command the Future of Human Performance
A credential-grade executive program that equips healthcare and organizational leaders to design, govern, and scale human performance systems — from clinical governance charters to board-ready digital health strategy.
Every executive deliverable in this program is one you should be able to table at your next board meeting — that is the only standard I build to.— Pauline Brown Smith, EdD
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Build a comprehensive human performance strategy roadmap integrating physiology, behavioral science, nutrition, and organizational health.
- Design and implement a digital health framework covering telehealth, wearables, remote monitoring, and interoperable health information systems.
- Construct a clinical innovation plan that applies emerging technologies and translational research to measurable patient outcome improvements.
- Establish a clinical governance charter with executive oversight protocols for patient safety, regulatory compliance, and continuous quality assurance.
- Develop and manage an executive KPI dashboard and enterprise risk register aligned to a five-year human performance roadmap.
- Deliver a board-ready executive presentation and stakeholder engagement strategy for a full-scale human performance and digital health initiative.
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 28 lessons
Foundations of Human Performance Systems
Establishes the scientific and organizational bedrock of human performance by integrating physiology, behavioral science, ergonomics, nutrition, and workforce well-being into a unified executive framework.
- 1.1Human Performance Science for Executive LeadersIncluded
- 1.2Organizational Health and Team Performance DynamicsIncluded
- 1.3Cognitive Performance and Rehabilitation in the WorkplaceIncluded
- 1.4Building the Human Performance Strategy RoadmapIncluded
- 1.5Stakeholder Mapping and Patient-Centered Objective SettingIncluded
Digital Health Design and Implementation
Equips leaders to architect, evaluate, and govern a comprehensive digital health ecosystem spanning telehealth, wearables, remote monitoring, mobile health, and interoperable information systems.
- 2.1Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring EssentialsIncluded
- 2.2Wearable Technologies and Mobile Health ApplicationsIncluded
- 2.3Interoperable Health Information Systems and Clinical Decision SupportIncluded
- 2.4Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Accessibility in Digital HealthIncluded
- 2.5Digital Health Implementation FrameworkIncluded
Clinical Innovation and Translational Research
Develops executives' capacity to lead clinical innovation pipelines that translate emerging technologies and quality improvement science into measurable patient outcome gains.
- 3.1Emerging Technologies Shaping Clinical InnovationIncluded
- 3.2Translational Research and Evidence-Based ImplementationIncluded
- 3.3Quality Improvement Methodologies for Clinical LeadersIncluded
- 3.4Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Innovation CultureIncluded
- 3.5Designing the Clinical Innovation PlanIncluded
Clinical Governance, Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance
Installs the executive oversight architecture — including governance charters, patient safety protocols, data stewardship, and workforce competency frameworks — required for accountable clinical leadership.
- 4.1Clinical Governance Frameworks and Executive OversightIncluded
- 4.2Patient Safety Systems and Quality Assurance ProtocolsIncluded
- 4.3Regulatory Compliance, Ethical Standards, and Data StewardshipIncluded
- 4.4Workforce Competency, Credentialing, and Continuous ImprovementIncluded
- 4.5Drafting the Clinical Governance CharterIncluded
Executive Performance Metrics, Risk, and Enterprise Strategy
Builds the executive's capacity to design KPI dashboards, maintain an enterprise risk register, and integrate all performance streams into a coherent five-year organizational roadmap.
- 5.1Designing the Executive KPI DashboardIncluded
- 5.2Enterprise Risk Register for Human Performance InitiativesIncluded
- 5.3Risk Mitigation Strategies and Governance CheckpointsIncluded
- 5.4The Five-Year Human Performance RoadmapIncluded
Board-Ready Executive Leadership and Portfolio Delivery
Culminates the credential by equipping leaders to present, defend, and continuously improve a full-scale human performance and digital health initiative at the board and enterprise level.
- 6.1Executive Communication and Board Presentation CraftIncluded
- 6.2Stakeholder Engagement Strategy and Change LeadershipIncluded
- 6.3Reflective Leadership Journal and Personal Development PlanningIncluded
- 6.4Applied Executive Exercise: Full Initiative CapstoneIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
Chief Medical Officers
CMOs navigating the intersection of clinical governance, patient safety oversight, and enterprise digital health strategy will find the governance and risk frameworks directly applicable to their board-level responsibilities.
Digital Health Strategists
Leaders designing telehealth, wearable, and interoperable health information systems will gain the implementation frameworks and regulatory literacy needed to move initiatives from pilot to enterprise scale.
Clinical Directors
Clinical directors stepping into broader organizational leadership will develop the executive governance skills, KPI discipline, and stakeholder communication craft required at the C-suite level.
Healthcare Executives
Senior administrators and VPs accountable for organizational performance will build the five-year strategic roadmaps, risk registers, and board presentations that define credible executive leadership.
Organizational Health Leaders
Leaders responsible for workforce performance, cognitive health, and team dynamics will connect behavioral science and organizational health research to measurable, governance-backed enterprise outcomes.
Clinical Innovation Leaders
Executives driving translational research, quality improvement, and emerging technology adoption will gain the interdisciplinary frameworks and innovation culture tools to move evidence into sustained clinical practice.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Pauline Brown Smith, EdD
If you are reading this, you already understand that human performance has become one of the most consequential strategic domains in modern healthcare and organizational leadership. The question is no longer whether your organization needs a coherent, governed, evidence-based human performance system — the question is whether you are equipped to design and lead one.
That gap is precisely what this program was built to close. I developed this curriculum for leaders who are operating at or near the executive level and who feel the weight of that accountability. Leaders who are asked to make consequential decisions about digital health infrastructure, clinical innovation pipelines, patient safety governance, and enterprise risk — often without a structured framework for any of it. You are expected to be fluent in translational research and board communication and regulatory compliance and workforce development. The preparation, historically, has not matched the expectation.
This program changes that. We move through human performance science not as a survey, but as a strategic foundation — one that connects physiology and behavioral science directly to organizational KPIs and governance structure. We design digital health frameworks that are technically credible and boardroom-ready. We draft governance charters and risk registers that would survive scrutiny in any clinical leadership setting. At every stage, the work is grounded in the deliverables that actually matter in an executive role.
I want to be direct about what this program demands of you. It is rigorous. The vocabulary is industry-grade because your context demands it. The exercises produce real artifacts because your stakeholders deserve real answers. You will be asked to think carefully, build methodically, and communicate with precision. If you bring your professional experience to the work, the program will return it to you organized, sharpened, and ready to deploy.
What you will hold at the end is not a certificate of attendance. It is a structured executive portfolio — a human performance strategy roadmap, a clinical governance charter, a digital health framework, a five-year plan with a live KPI dashboard, and a board-ready capstone presentation. That is the credential. I invite you to build it.
— Pauline Brown Smith, EdD
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