Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors

5 In Pursuit of Identity and Inclusion

Priscilla Gill

Priscilla Gill, EdD, is passionate about helping leaders flourish and transform organizations to unleash the greatness of others. She currently leads Mayo Clinic’s Workforce Learning enterprise function and previously led their Coaching and Mentoring Center of Excellence. Priscilla earned her Doctor of Education Degree in Organizational Leadership from Nova Southeastern University.

The Talent

This chapter highlights Kenna’s leader development journey through coaching. The coaching engagement was sponsored by Kenna’s leader to help ensure strategy and relationship success as a senior-level, female physician leader in a large academic medical center. Kenna readily accepted the coaching opportunity with expressed interest in creating a strategic plan for her relatively new function and managing relationships vertically, horizontally, and diagonally.

For Kenna, stepping into the senior administrative leadership role was a “dream come true” as it aligned with her talents, strengths, and passion. Kenna was enthusiastic and determined to make a difference for her customers, meet role expectations, and demonstrate to her sponsors and stakeholders that they made the right decision by selecting her for the senior administrative leadership role. Her journey to this position included numerous successes in medical practice, contributions on the national and international level, leadership roles in professional organizations, and several ...