501(c)(3) approved seal 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Founded 2019 · Bronx, NY [email protected]
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The Leslin Healthcare Leadership Foundation

Healthcare Leadership Begins With Humanity

In partnership with educators, researchers, and practitioners, Leslin equips healthcare leaders and institutions to shape the future—leading with purpose, compassion, and vision.

Who We Champion

We champion the vital role healthcare management leaders play in shaping care, service, and the patient experience.

Building a new model for developing leaders who create compassionate, responsive workplaces.

  • Students exploring or rising in management
  • Career transitioners moving in from other sectors
  • Emerging leaders entry-level to middle management

Guided by an unbounded approach, we help leaders discover that the “Leader is Within.”

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Our Mission

To discover and activate the leadership potential that resides in us all.

Our Vision

Empowered healthcare leaders who work with purpose, strive for mastery, and lead with kindness.

Our Values

The principles that shape everything we build.

  • Trust

    Earned through reliability and promise-keeping.

  • Inclusion

    Those who do the work shape the decisions.

  • Collaboration

    Learning, growing, and acting—together.

  • Innovation

    Creating work through experimentation and cross-sector insight.

  • Growth

    Developing exceptional leaders from within.

What We Do

Three arms, one mission — humane, capable healthcare leadership.

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Practice Management Advisory Services

Co-designed solutions for operational excellence and workplace transformation.

  • Human-Centered Operations Management
  • Partnership Development & Experiential Learning Initiatives
Advisory Services

Our approach

Listen
Engage
Evolve
Leslin's Listen, Engage, Evolve approach flowchart
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Careers Academy

Learning experiences that blend humanities and management to build 21st-century leadership skills.

  • Humanities-Based Leadership Certificate Program
  • Upskilling Intensives
Careers Academy
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03

Applied Humanities Institute

Research and thought leadership integrating ethics, narrative, and philosophy into healthcare leadership.

  • Healthcare Humanities Research
  • Hub Leadership Insights Series
Healthcare Management Humanities Institute (HMHI)

Partner with Leslin to create healthcare environments where leaders and staff thrive, patients feel cared for, and the future of healthcare leadership is built on humanity.

Partner With Us

Proudly partnered with

  • Bellevue Literary Review
  • New York Academy of Medicine
  • Health Career Connection
  • International Rescue Committee
  • New York College of Health Professions

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