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Thriving Executive Coaching
Being a leader in healthcare speaks volumes about you. It signifies intelligence, strength, compassion, resourcefulness, and resilience. Your dedication to your role is commendable, and we understand that navigating the demands of your profession can sometimes be challenging.
At Thriving, we recognize the importance of having a trusted support system in place. Just as every great leader has a team of advisors, we’re here to provide the knowledge, collaboration, and assistance you need to excel in your role.
Our executive coach, Linda Sinisi, MS, is a trusted adviser with over 25 years of experience in leadership and leadership development. She’s known for bringing out the best in her clients and achieving desired results with teams, organizations, and individuals. Team performance, executive development, succession planning, career elevation— development, and entrepreneurial business—development are just a few of her areas of expertise.
"Learn early, learn often and always learn forward."
Linda Sinisi, inspired by John C. Maxwell
Linda has worked with CEOs, VPs, and directors of Fortune 500 medical device, software, and service companies, Life Science organizations, and large academic and regional medical centers including the VA. Her signature accomplishments include:
- Executive coaching with established and emerging leaders
- Specializing in executive presence, change management, leadership learning development, and customer experience
- Creating a world-class leadership development organization for a top-tier healthcare provider in South Florida focused on leadership learning, employee engagement, team building, and succession planning
- While there, the organization received a national excellence award for a 5 point engagement increase, in an environment where overall engagement was already at an impressive level, and launched The Leadership and Innovation Institute serving 2,400 team members
- Leading teams to transform customer service internally and externally with multiple nationally recognized leaders in healthcare delivery
- Leading a Joint Venture R&D clinical team between Siemens Medical Germany, Siemens Health Services US and Drager US in development of the first medical device integration and remote monitoring solution commercially available on the market globally serving the critical care environment
thought Leadership in AI and Healthcare
In addition to her coaching and consulting work, Linda has contributed to thought leadership in the field of artificial intelligence. She is a co-author of The AI Advantage: Thriving Within Civilization’s Next Big Disruption, a book that explores how AI is transforming healthcare and what it means for today’s leaders.
The book examines how adaptability, emotional intelligence, and the leader-as-coach model are essential in navigating AI’s opportunities and uncertainties. By integrating human insight with technological advancement, Linda emphasizes how leaders can foster cultures of innovation, collaboration, and resilience, ensuring that AI enhances human potential rather than replacing it.
AI is transforming healthcare—accelerating drug discovery, enhancing diagnostics, reducing physician burnout, and enabling lifesaving early interventions. Yet, its long-term impact remains uncertain. Like past global shifts such as COVID-19, AI reminds us that prediction has limits. Success comes not from certainty but from adaptability. This chapter explores how leaders can thrive in an AI-driven world by embracing uncertainty, fostering experimentation, and applying frameworks like Cynefin to guide decision-making. AI should augment—not replace—human intelligence, freeing people to focus on creativity, problem-solving, and human connection. The leader as coach model is key: guiding teams through deep listening, empowerment, collaboration, and growth. By modeling adaptability, emotional intelligence, trustworthiness, and initiative, leaders create cultures where AI supports human potential instead of constraining it. Ultimately, the true advantage in the AI era lies not in the technology itself, but in how we choose to use it. Leaders who embrace curiosity, courage, and shared learning will turn the unknown into opportunity—and ensure that AI helps humanity thrive.
Why did Linda decide to start Thriving?
Here’s her story
“Helping to take care of my father during his illness, and later helping my mother during hers, I was thinking about how I could help healthcare workers and patients. For example, I wanted to help nurses pre-Covid. I saw how hard their work was and dreamed of having a company that would employ and deploy them. One that would take great care of them.
“I didn’t move forward with that business because I realized I was thinking about what I wanted for them – which might not be what they wanted and needed for themselves.
“When I learned about coaching, I realized that I had found a way to help people identify their own needs, goals, and strategies. I can help them achieve what they want, how they want it.”
Thriving Methodology
When one person is thriving, everyone around them can thrive. The more that are thriving, the larger the circle of impact. Thriving executive coaching is an effective way to widen the circle.
Our mission is to empower leaders, teams, and organizations to perform at their peak. We help clients seize opportunities, fulfill needs, and overcome challenges using our Thriving methodology.
A Fortune 500 company studying the return on investment of executive coaching concluded that executive coaching produced a 788% ROI. They also found that 96% of executive coaching clients said they would repeat the process.
Programs Tailored for Specific Needs
What a client wants depends on his or her situation and individual needs. Here’s a sampling of concerns for which different types of healthcare leaders have sought Linda’s help:
Senior level leaders with multiple teams and groups:
- I am leading the effort to create a new organization, one that hasn’t existed in our company in the past and is new in our industry. What is the best approach to assess, design, plan, and implement organizational change?
- In addition to increasing profitability, how do we leverage all opportunities to increase individual and team cohesion, performance, and quality?
- I’m not just a leader; I’m a spouse and parent. How can I further support and enhance both my work and family time?
Department leaders as coaches for small teams and groups:
- How can I lead my team as a coach without telling them what to do and how to do it?
- How can we attract, hire, and retain the best talent?
- How can we improve employee engagement survey results, so we consistently meet the expected level?
- How can we elevate the way we define, measure, track, and achieve goals annually?
- What is the best way to handle when the volume of work and quality expectations outpace the capacity of our staff, resulting in employee burnout and turnover?
- My team is very talented. What is stopping them from performing at their peak individually and as a team?
Executive leaders:
- How can I best support our leaders and hold them accountable for achieving our mission, purpose, and goals while continually expanding their capacity to take on new demands?
- How can we increase cohesion, performance, and quality across the board?
- How can we increase customer satisfaction and revenue within our existing budget in the face of our competitors’ spending and expansion, driving increases in their revenue and leaving ours flat?
- We are reorganizing/merging with another company. How can we assess, design, plan, and implement organizational change that achieves our vision and outperforms our targets?
