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For healthcare leaders needing practical insight and inspiration on leading thriving careers and lives, welcome!
Since I started actively posting on LinkedIn in 2022, I’ve written nearly 400 posts packed with true-life stories, guidance and value to help emerging and existing healthcare leaders reach your biggest dreams and impact.
This blog is a curated collection of my top LinkedIn posts with topics Leading Healthcare Change, Wellbeing for Health Professionals, Personal Branding and Thought Leadership, Women Impacting Healthcare, and my Research.
Leading Healthcare Change | Personal Branding and Thought Leadership
January 2025
Too often I meet talented, already accomplished health professionals who feel invisible, unappreciated, and frustrated in their careers and dreams. They have big ideas and dreams, but struggle to turn them into reality. Cards on the table: I used to be one of them!
Leading Healthcare Change
Getting Turned Down for CEO Three Times: What It Taught Me About Myself and the Healthcare Career Ladder
Personal Branding and Thought Leadership
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Personal Branding and Thought Leadership
March 2025
Wellbeing for Health Professionals
April 2025
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Leading Healthcare Change
Personal Branding and Thought Leadership
January 2025
Too often I meet talented, already accomplished health professionals who feel invisible, unappreciated, and frustrated in their careers and dreams. They have big ideas and dreams, but struggle to turn them into reality. Cards on the table: I used to be one of them!
Leading Healthcare Change
February 2025
I was turned down for a CEO position in healthcare three times. ON THE FIRST TIME, I was 29 years old. I had earned my Master’s Degree, was on the management team of the healthcare organisation and I was part of the project team that had grown that business substantially. I was told I needed more financial knowledge and the position was filled by the then financial manager.
Leading Healthcare Change
February 2025
One of the big barriers we still need to overcome in healthcare change is the paradigm of “professional knows best” which excludes the voices of patients and families. In 2022, I presented on this topic at the Quality and Safety Conference at Africa Health. As a quality leader in healthcare, I’ve experienced more than a few cases where a medical error could have been avoided if the nurse or doctor had listened to the patient and/or their family.
Women In Healthcare
Leading Healthcare Change
March 2025
One of the biggest reforms we still need to address in women’s health is the huge gap in data and healthcare solutions specific to women. In her book “Invisible Women”, author Caroline Criado Perez exclaims: “Women are not just small men. Male and female bodies differ down to the cellular level.” Despite the scientific community’s obsession with data, historically it has been appalling about collecting data about women.
Personal Branding and Thought Leadership
March 2025
You can either be deliberate about having a personal brand as a health professional, or others will give you one. This is what I told my cohort of healthcare change leaders this Sunday in our workshop with Guest Expert Anthea van den Bergh on “Personal Branding, LinkedIn, and the Power of Being Your Own Best Advocate”.
Wellbeing for Health Professionals
April 2025
As a health professional, I am not proud to say I’ve been on the edge of burnout too many times. Still to this day, the overwhelming culture of healthcare and healthtech professionals - and especially for women - is to sacrifice our needs in service of patients or projects.
Hello There!
I’m Dr Dena van den Bergh👋
I'm an award-winning healthcare change leader and leadership mentor for healthcare and healthtech professionals.
With a career spanning over 30 years, I'm an authority in change making and innovation with experience on the hospital front lines to the boardroom and international conference stage, and beyond.
I currently work independently with leaders, teams and organisations to successfully implement health systems improvement co-designed with stakeholders.
My goal is to empower accomplished and emerging leaders to thrive in their lives and their careers and inspire them to make a powerful impact in shaping the future of health systems globally.
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