The Next Healthcare Leader: 50 Lessons for a Successful Career in a Changing Industry - Paperback
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The Next Healthcare Leader is a career guide designed to help students, early-career professionals, professionals looking to advance in their careers, and those new to the field of healthcare administration navigate their first decade in the field with purpose, confidence, and clarity. Drawing from over two decades of executive leadership and academic experience, this book delivers 50 short, actionable lessons rooted in real-world mentorship, practical insight, and a value-driven approach to building a successful healthcare leadership career.
Unlike dense textbooks or technical manuals, this book is conversational, reflective, and designed to meet readers where they are--often overwhelmed, uncertain, and searching for direction in a fast-changing industry. It speaks directly to the questions, missteps, and growth opportunities students and professionals face, helping them move from uncertainty to confidence as they explore, enter, and grow within the healthcare sector.
The book is organized in 50 self-contained lessons across five broad themes: Understanding the Landscape, Building a Career Foundation, Growing as a Professional, Leading with Intention, Shaping a Career with Purpose. Each chapter can be read independently or sequentially, making the book suitable for classroom adoption, career development programming, or individual use. The book's voice is grounded, encouraging, and honest, offering not just strategies for success, but also guidance for overcoming fear, failure, and burnout.
Matthew Bogner, DHA, MPH is an Associate Teaching Professor at Wichita State University in the College of Health Professions. He teaches in the Master of Health Administration (MHA), Master of Aging Studies, and undergraduate health management programs. He also serves as coordinator of the MHA practicum and capstone experience.
Before entering academia, Dr. Bogner served as a healthcare executive for over 20 years, including more than a decade as Chief Executive Officer of a multi-service retirement community. His leadership in long-term care earned multiple PEAK Awards from the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services and recognition from LeadingAge Kansas.
Dr. Bogner holds a Doctor of Health Administration from Central Michigan University and a Master of Public Health from Wichita State University. He is an active researcher, peer reviewer for The Gerontologist and Geriatric Nursing, and a textbook reviewer for Springer Publishing.
As a mentor to hundreds of students and interns, Dr. Bogner brings practical wisdom, empathy, and a student-centered voice to his writing--reflecting the realities, aspirations, and anxieties of the next generation of healthcare leaders.
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