Susan Eisner, MPH, CASAC

Trainer, Consultant & Visionary Coach for the Medical Profession

Susan Eisner, MPH, CASAC
Trainer, Consultant & Visionary Leadership Coach
Physician and Health Professional Seminars
Long Island, New York

OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE THROUGH INDIVIDUAL HEALTH

WHO AM I?

For 26 years I've designed and conducted seminars in wellness, impairment, and interpersonal communication skills for physicians, health professionals and other hospital personnel within the New York medical community. Through these seminars (click here for a complete list of topics), and from my more recent endeavor of Visionary Coaching sessions, I've achieved great satisfaction in helping individuals optimize their performance by improving their individual health.

WHY DO I DO IT?

I’m passionate about these topics personally and professionally. It all started in an elective graduate school class at Temple University on Stress Management. Week after week we sprawled out on large, red blankets on the floor and practiced meditation and relaxation techniques. I was so relaxed I could barely drive home. That class was one of those life changing experiences that led me to doing and teaching this work.

Becoming an Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor and working for ten years in New York's impaired physician program, I became well versed in these topics. My interest in Stress Management expanded to addiction and impairment, and morphed into 8 self-care topics. I love presenting and take great pleasure in seeing the results of my seminars - happier, healthier practitioners, and organizations with higher productivity and morale, less sick time, fewer errors, and improved patient outcomes.

With expertise in Physician Impairment, I consult with hospital leadership about problems with physicians and how to best help and support these doctors.

In recent years my interest in working with individuals grew. With Visionary Coaching I expanded my stress management and self-help methods arsenal with innovative techniques that combine several modalities into guided introspection processes. These processes help people individually and in small groups to more quickly get to the bottom of sometimes life-long issues and get them un-stuck. They've helped me greatly. I'm more relaxed, focused, compassionate, and more dedicated to my work than ever - and passionate about using this to deeply help my clients.

WHAT MAKES ME DIFFERENT?

Though not a doctor, I know the population well after working in hospitals and health care my entire career. As a self-proclaimed intelligent, compulsive perfectionist (and getting better every day), I can relate well to their personalities and connect with them in a way that many others cannot.

A recent seminar participant said, “Wow, I never shared that about myself anywhere else. It was great!”

I'm known for my down-to-earth, honest, direct style, with which I quickly connect with my audiences. I get them thinking and talking about difficult yet important, relevant issues they rarely discuss elsewhere. I also get them practicing easy, usable take-home techniques to help them after leaving the classroom.

An Anesthesiology Nurse Manager in a Communication Skills seminar that both physicians and nurses attended, commented, “The best thing about this session was just having the issues on the table with a lot of difficult people present. It was a very non-threatening way to broach issues.”

My coaching uses methods unlike those traditionally used. Clients are constantly amazed at the ways in which their lives change in real and definitive ways. One resident recently said, "I had no idea my physical pain was so connected to that problem in my life. The pain has been practically gone now for a month."

WHAT MAKES ME QUALIFIED?

I spent ten years as the Outreach Coordinator for NY’s Committee for Physician Health of the Medical Society of the State of New York. I have a Masters in Public Health in Community Health Education, a Bachelor of Arts in Biology, and am a Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor in New York. I’m also an Adjunct Instructor for the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine at NY College of Osteopathic Medicine. I am trained in Visionary Coaching through Conscious Company.

I have led groups and speak at almost 200 hospitals for leadership groups, grand rounds, medical staff meetings, resident retreats, nursing meetings, training and development educational forums, and to other medical organizations, and medical and physician assistant schools. Audiences include doctors, physician assistants, nurses, mental health and other health professionals, students and other hospital personnel. Through Visionary Coaching, I help physicians, health personnel and laypersons in confidential sessions for a variety of personal and professional issues.

LET'S WORK TOGETHER

My seminars are best offered as a series to reinforce the topics. They last 1-2 hours, or can be adjusted to meet your needs. Half- and full-day sessions are available, with the same topic staggered over the day, or as several topics combined. Coaching sessions are available to those who want to schedule on their own or by referral. Introductory and small group coaching sessions can also be scheduled. And finally, if you are concerned about the welfare of a physician colleague, I'm available for consultation about possible options for help.

Please contact me to schedule a seminar, or coaching or consultation session today.

Sincerely,
Susan Eisner, MPH, CASAC