Equip your leaders. Change your culture.
A practical, repeatable system to move your organization from awareness to action.
Customizable
workshop formats
Years of healthcare
leadership expertise
When leaders are equipped,
culture changes.
When leaders are equipped with the right skills, disruptive behaviors get addressed, retention improves, and teams function better. Our workshops deliver measurable change — not just a better understanding of the problem.
Every day leaders don't act, the problem compounds.
$60k
Average cost to replace one nurse
Disruptive behaviors drive turnover — and turnover costs health systems an average of $60k per nurse, according to NSI 2026. The financial case for intervention is clear.
Eroded trust, safety, and culture
Unaddressed incivility erodes team trust, patient safety, and organizational culture. The damage compounds quietly until it becomes a crisis.
Silence is not a strategy
Leaders who lack the skills to confront behavior default to silence — and silence is a strategy that fails every time. Our workshops give leaders a path forward.
Our workshops give leaders a clear path forward with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to act.
Three workshops. One mission:
build leaders who act.
All workshops are customized for your organization — available for nurse leaders, physicians, clinical and non-clinical teams, and executive leadership.
8 Essential Skills of a Healthy Team
Your leaders can’t build high-performing teams without specific, practiced skills. This workshop develops each skill first at the leader level, then equips them to build it across their teams — creating consistency from the top down.
- Build honest, respectful communication across interprofessional teams
- Address bullying and incivility with confidence — as a team, not just a policy
- Establish a culture of consistent, constructive feedback
- Strengthen psychological safety and team trust
Enough! Eradicate Bullying & Incivility: Practical Strategies for Leaders
Your leaders need more than awareness — they need a clear method to identify, confront, and correct disruptive behavior. This is our most requested workshop, and the one most closely tied to the Healthy Workforce Framework™.
- Distinguish between bullying, incivility, and a bad day — and respond to each appropriately
- Apply the strategies high-performing leaders use to eliminate
disruptive behavior for good - Build a culture where civility and accountability are the standard — not the aspiration
CLEAR Rx: A Proven Framework for Difficult Conversations
Difficult conversations don’t go away on their own. This workshop gives your leaders a structured, repeatable method — the CLEAR Rx framework— so they can handle conflict with confidence and stop letting hard conversations become bigger problems.
- Lead difficult conversations with confidence instead of avoidance
- Apply the CLEAR Rx framework — a step-by-step framework designed for healthcare settings
- Drive measurable improvement in teamwork, patient care outcomes, and employee engagement
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What event leaders say about our workshops.
The workshop Renee provided was profoundly engaging, and we walked away with tactical skills to build a healthy workforce. Her authenticity, expertise, and ability to capture an audience was awe-inspiring.”
Tera L. Gross, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Chief Nursing Officer — Mayo Clinic in Florida
"The NEFONL chapter was honored to host Dr. Renee Thompson for her presentation on “Cultivating a Healthy Workforce by Addressing Bullying and Incivility: Strategies for Healthcare Leaders.” Her passionate and dynamic delivery and commitment to eliminating bullying in healthcare resonated with our members. We received several notes of appreciation for her interactive and informative session."
“Human behavior is complex and different approaches are needed to address the root causes of negative behavior in the workplace. Renee educates and provides specific tactics to arm leaders with the tools needed to support a healthy work environment but also to support the leader him/herself.”
Working with Renee and her team at the HWI was an incredible experience! We contacted the HWI to inquire about Renee joining us at a Nurse Leader Retreat. We wanted a day that focused on our leaders, but one that was not grounded around their day-to-day operations. Renee went above and beyond to ensure that the content fit our vision. She is a dynamic and relatable speaker who kept our leaders engaged for three hours. We are absolutely blessed to have had this opportunity!
Dr. Renee Thompson's workshop, "Cultivating a Healthy Workforce by Addressing Bullying and Incivility," proved to be a transformative experience for our leaders. Her engaging and informative session heightened our awareness of identifying and addressing disruptive behaviors, equipping us with practical tools to establish clear behavioral expectations. The overwhelmingly positive feedback from our physicians, nurse leaders, and interprofessional team underscored the impact of Dr. Thompson's expertise and presentation style. We are now motivated to sustain this momentum and are thankful to Dr. Thompson and the Healthy Workforce Institute for their collaboration in fostering improved relationships, communication, empowerment, trust, and a healthier work environment.
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