ROOTED MANAGER LAUNCH
Healthcare manager training for leaders carrying more than they were trained for.
Your strongest clinicians and team members earned the promotion. That does not mean anyone taught them how to lead.
Rooted Manager Launch is an 8-session healthcare leadership development program from Wildbrush Collective for new and emerging managers in hospitals, health centers, clinics, and healthcare organizations.
8-session cohort program · Healthcare-specific · Led by Anna Smith, MHA, CPTM, ACC
WHY THIS HAPPENS
The transition from peer to manager
is one of the most undertrained moments in healthcare leadership.
Your best clinician, coordinator, or team member gets promoted because they earned it. Then the job changes. Suddenly, they're expected to run productive meetings, manage former peers, document performance conversations, navigate conflict, delegate clearly, and understand the operational impact of their decisions. Most are learning all of that while still carrying pieces of the job they had before.
Most of them aren't failing. They're improvising.
And the cost of that improvisation shows up somewhere — in your HR queue, your turnover data, unresolved conflict, inconsistent accountability, or the 1:1 that never happened.
TESTIMONIALS
What others are saying...
"Anna's coaching empowered me to embrace all the change."
"She created space for emotions and showed genuine care, offering insightful guidance that helped me grow stronger through adversity."
Rachelle R.
Sr. Clinical Program Manager, Utah
"Strategic thinking combined with human-centered growth is an accurate description."
"I have no doubt that Anna will continue to create positive change in leaders and their teams through this work."
Joanne W.
Associate Vice President, Bozeman, MT
"Coaching has helped me integrate who I am with how I approach my work."
"I now make decisions with more intention, and feel better equipped to focus my time and energy where it needs to be. Coaching has helped me integrate who I am with how I approach my work."
Carolyn P.
Program Manager, Montana
THE MATH IS NOT COMPLICATED
$80k – $120k
That's the estimated cost of one undertrained manager who loses just two staff in their first year of leadership -- accounting for recruitment, onboarding, training, and the months of reduced productivity on both sides of that transition.
Most organizations recover the cost of this program by retaining just one employee.
THE PROGRAM
Rooted Manager Launch
Upon completion, your new leaders are:
Running structured 1:1s -- consistently, not when they remember to
Documenting performance conversations correctly, before the situation escalates
Delegating without micromanaging -- and following up without hovering
Not because they're naturally gifted at leadership. Because they were actually trained for it.
8-session structured leadership program
Built specifically for healthcare environments
Focused on real-world application — not theory
Cohort-based by design, so the peer relationships your managers build inside the program continue to support them long after it ends
OUTCOMES
What shifts inside your organization
This isn’t just training. It directly impacts retention, performance, and operational stability.
Your HR stops absorbing what your managers should be handling.
Performance conversations that never got documented. Conflicts that escalated because no one addressed them early enough. 90-day issues that became 12-month problems. Managers handle these earlier — because they have a framework, not just good intentions.
Your turnover costs reflect the real cause.
People don't leave organizations. They leave managers. When the manager is trained, confident, and consistent, the team stabilizes. That's not theory — it's what happens when someone is given the tools to actually lead, instead of just the title.
You build a leadership bench, not just a training record.
The managers who go through this program together become a peer cohort inside your organization — people who share language, call each other, and support each other through the challenges that come after the program ends. That's a leadership culture. It's worth more than the 90 days.
A Cohort Model, not a Classroom.
Your managers go through this program together -- which means they build shared language, peer accountability, and a support network that doesn't disappear when the last session ends. The cohort is the intervention as much as the curriculum.
Healthcare- Specific - Front to Back
Every framework, scenario, and tool is grounded in real healthcare operations — not adapted from generic corporate training. Built for yours.
Financial Literacy is Included
Your managers will leave understanding how to read a budget and expense sheet, connect their team's performance to operational cost, and make decisions that reflect the financial reality of your organization.