No matter where you are in your career, it's never too late to level up and become the sought-after change leader you want to be.
I know this because I've done it!
IGNITE YOUR CAREER AND IMPACT IN HEALTHCARE
GET PERSONALISED SUPPORT FROM A MASTER MENTOR AND HEALTH SYSTEMS EXPERT
FIRESTARTER COACHING
IGNITE YOUR CAREER AND IMPACT IN HEALTHCARE
GET PERSONALISED SUPPORT FROM A MASTER MENTOR AND HEALTH SYSTEMS EXPERT
GO FROM FEELING STUCK AND ALONE IN YOUR CAREER TO HAVING A CLEAR PLAN THAT SKYROCKETS YOUR SUCCESS
If you're ready to jumpstart your career and your projects as a professional and change leader in healthcare and healthtech, this is for you.
I know just how tough it is to navigate the health system when you're doing it alone.
You have big dreams for your career and the impact you want to bring to the health system, but it's so easy to get turned around, lose your clarity, and maybe some of your passion too.
You're a highly qualified, already accomplished individual - so why does this all feel so hard?
You wish you could talk to someone who's been there and could show you the ropes.
ARE YOU READY TO LIGHT A FIRE IN YOUR BELLY?
“We cannot become ourselves by ourselves”
Dr Claire Zammit
I've now made it even easier to access my 1:1 mentorship for talented healthcare and healthtech professionals looking to live your highest destiny in your career and life.
Bring your burning career and change leadership questions and you'll gain access to my three decades of expertise and mentoring leaders at all stages of their careers in this easy to book coaching.
WHAT YOU'LL GET
SESSION 1
BIG CLARITY
In our first session, you’ll get to share your unique story and together we’ll get to the heart of your true potential and aspirations.
SESSION 2
ACTION PLAN
In this session, we’ll co-design a powerful plan for your career and/or change project that leaves you feeling confident and ready to move forward.
SESSION 3
INTEGRATE
This final session is about checking in on your progress, designing your next steps, and integrating your learnings from this Firestarter Coaching.
WHAT OTHERS HAVE TO SAY
"Dena has been instrumental in leading high impact leadership, systems change and quality improvement, materially impacting healthcare in South Africa. Dena is an excellent mentor and her enthusiasm for improvement work is inspirational."
Dr. Chevon Clark
Chief Executive Officer
NRC South Africa
“Dena is one of the most admired, respected healthcare leaders in SA. She opened a whole new world to me - that of change leadership and building strong nursing and pharmacy partnerships. Wow!
I remember doing my first conference poster presentation on improving medication administration errors, with Dena leading and urging me on. Priceless!”
Gracie Makumbie
Nurse Manager
“Dena understands (and lives!) effective leadership, true engagement, respectful relationships, effective management styles and more than anything is a true believer in opportunities and making the most out of any opportunity. She will certainly change all people, processes, situations and companies that will allow her to impact them. Thank you for the impact you had on me and our teams.”
Arend Brink
Director at CCI-GrowthCon
“Thank You Dr Dena van den Bergh for your mentorship and guidance. I would not be where I am today, had you not taken me under your wing so many years ago. It is definitely thanks to you that I have had such a wonderful career.”
Sonya Koleman
Clinical Pharmacist
Nelson Mandela Children Hospital, South Africa
WITH THE CALL, YOU'LL GET MY BONUS FREE WORKBOOK: 21 WAYS TO BOOST YOUR VISIBILITY, IMPACT AND OPPORTUNITIES AS A HEALTHCARE CHANGE LEADER!
Whether you’re an emerging or established change leader, it’s a common experience that despite doing amazing work, we can still feel invisible and unrecognised.
The game changer in my career was realising my own agency in changing this story and stepping into the limelight!
In this free workbook, I share 21 sure-fire ways from my 30-year career to boost your visibility and become a magnet for new opportunities as a healthcare change leader.
MEET YOUR MASTER MENTOR
DR DENA VAN DEN BERGH
With a career spanning over 30 years as an executive in healthcare, Dr Dena van den Bergh is an authority in change leadership and health systems innovation with experience on the hospital front lines to the boardroom, international conference stage, and beyond.
Dena has worked with South Africa's largest healthcare groups and funders in the public and private sector and collaborated with global change leaders in large scale health systems improvement.
Her Doctorate in Engineering from Warwick University gave her a love for systems thinking which she has integrated with her clinical expertise to create a unique approach to healthcare change leadership.
She now works independently with leaders, teams and organisations to successfully implement health systems improvement co-designed with stakeholders. Her 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.
Dena is an industry leader in change leadership and implementation of health systems improvement as well as a passionate advocate for value-based care and addressing the gap of vital employee and public input into designing better health systems for all. In 2015 she was awarded the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Leadership in Quality Improvement in South Africa by Discovery Health for her work across the public and private sector.
A world citizen at heart, Dena frequently collaborates internationally and presents and publishes her change projects at the global level in order to constantly expand and exchange knowledge to better her own work.
Dena is an honorary research associate at UCT Dept. of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV and a senior editor for the peer reviewed international journal JAC-AMR.
She is also an internationally certified leadership coach, an IHI trained Healthcare Improvement Advisor, an advanced Presencing and Theory U facilitator for social change and certified in Feminine PowerTM leadership .
Outside of work Dena is a committed yoga and wellness practitioner and loves spending time in nature with her family.
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