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STAND UP FOR WHAT’S RIGHT

Leading isn’t a popularity contest, especially when it comes to your organization’s core mission and aspirational values.

Newly arrived leaders can shake up organizations in any number of ways. They can announce major cost-cutting measures, make significant personnel moves, introduce new strategies, advance new operational structures. As it turns out, they can also march in parades.

In early 2019, members of our recently formed LGBTQ+ caregiver resource group asked if Intermountain could sponsor Utah’s annual Pride Festival. At many health systems, this request might have been no big deal, but Intermountain had never aligned itself with the LGBTQ+ community in such a public way. Believing it important for people ...

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