Today, we discuss 7 steps everyone can take to prepare for a successful career jump. Whether you are pursuing a board position, making a jump to a promotion with your current employer, or changing employment altogether, take these 7 steps to maximize your potential for success. 1. Pursue a Growth Mindset2. Update & Modernize Your Resume3. Fix your Social Media & Online Presence4. Deep Dive into Yourself a. Build Your Person Brand b. Find the Answers to Your Why 5. Talk to People a. Start Prepping Potential References b. Repair Burned Bridges c. Short Circuit the System & Skip the Line 6. Plan Your Work7. Work Your Plan a. Prepare Contingency Plans for Success & Failure About Stark Lane: We are best known for providing organizations with the leaders who make quality healthcare possible. For more than two decades, I have spent my days searching for impactful leaders and those on a mission to make significant positive change for humanity. This YouTube channel not only brings these extraordinary people to you, uncovering the secrets to their success in business and life, but we also provide tools, support, and ideas to help you launch and elevate your career in this complex and competitive world. Starklane.com

Thank you to everyone who completed our survey on Generation Z in the Workplace. Today we dive into your results and explore stereotypes and generational weaknesses and opportunities with the helpful commentary of EricQin and Kloey Scott.

Eric Qin is a Senior at the University of Texas and a former Stark Lane intern. He is the founder and leader of a University affiliated pro bono consulting organization in Austin and the creator of Burnup, a digital project management platform utilized by his consulting organization and other businesses to streamline productivity and scale team workflow. Last Summer he interned with PwC’s global strategy consulting arm, Strategy&, and will be joining them full-time upon graduation this Spring. Eric is passionate and excited to launch his professional career and we are excited to see this up and comer’s impact. You can find Eric on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericqinn/

Kloey Scott is entering her Senior year at the University ofTexas. She is an accomplished rock musician, a podcaster, and a two-year employee of a Texas-based organization with which she seeks to build a long-term career. HEB is a $50B, privately-held grocery industry organization with 455+ store locations and Central Texas roots going back to 1905. They are ranked #1 on Forbes list of Best Brands for Social Impact in 2026, #40 on Forbes’ best Large Employers List, and #5 on Forbes’ America’s Top Private Companies. You can find Kloey on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kloeyscott/

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About Stark Lane: Our firm is best known for providing organizations with the leaders who make quality healthcarepossible. For more than two decades, I have spent my days searching for impactful leaders and those on a mission to make significant positive change for humanity. This podcast not only brings these extraordinary people to you, uncovering the secrets to their success in business and life, but we also provide tools, support, and ideas to help you launch and elevate your career in this complex and competitive world.

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Elissa Shelton is an experienced and highly successful healthcare business development executive with deep experience in post-acute care. She has built and led teams at the local, regional, and corporate levels in Long Term Acute Care Hospitals, Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Home Health, and Hospice services. Today, Elissa shares how she found herself in business development and offers ideas and insights for those who may have an interest in her field. Business Development is the lifeblood of every organization. Without patients, CEOs and CFOs would have nothing to manage and doctors, nurses, and other caregivers would have nobody to treat. If you have thought about healthcare sales, business development, referral development, or a clinical liaison role take a moment to listen to this episode. Elissa is well known and respected in the industry and a go-to leader for investor-owned organizations who seek the best and brightest. About Stark Lane: Our firm is best known for providing organizations with the leaders who make quality healthcare possible. For more than two decades, I have spent my days searching for impactful leaders and those on a mission to make significant positive change for humanity. This podcast not only brings these extraordinary people to you, uncovering the secrets to their success in business and life, but we also provide tools, support, and ideas to help you launch and elevate your career in this complex and competitive world. #healthcaremarketing #hospitalmanagement #hospitalmarketing #healthcaresales #homehealth #hospiceStarklane.com

Katy O’Connor is an accidental Human Resources executive, and one of the most effective CHROs in the industry. Today, we learn about her entry into the field and discuss the possible benefits of a multi-industry background. We will also touch on several big topics including, but not limited to: driving culture, effective DEI, utilization of AI at work, and the only “silver bullet” for assessing the qualitative side of team effectiveness when working due diligence on acquisitions.

As supportive dialogue, Katy shares a few career tips for up and comers and critical success factors for senior executives. I have spent more than two decades seeking and soliciting extraordinary leaders for more than 350 highly sophisticated organizations across three continents. I have placed more than 1,200 executives, including more than 200 Chief Executive Officers. As you can imagine, I know talent, and after working with Katy on and off for 20 years, I am comfortable endorsing her advice. She is authentic, knowledgeable, and highly effective. I am confident you will find value in this episode.

About Stark Lane: Our firm is best known for providing organizations with the leaders who make quality healthcare possible. For more than two decades, I have spent my days searching for impactful leaders and those on a mission to make significant positive change for humanity. This podcast not only brings these extraordinary people to you, uncovering the secrets to their success in business and life, but we also provide tools, support, and ideas to help you launch and elevate your career in this complex and competitive world.

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Meet Patrick Solomon from Trinity Health Advisors. With more than 20 years in healthcare-focused executive search on the provider side of American healthcare, I have met very few people with Patrick’s breadth and depth of expertise, and problem-solving competency, in hospital-based physician services. Today, his perspectives, insights, and observations are highly sought after by health system leaders, physician executives, boards of directors, and private equity firms.

Today, Patrick shares a few key takeaways from his career, the concepts, practices, and decisions contributing to his success. We learn about those who inspired Patrick and those who empowered him to drive solutions for impossible situations where no playbook exists, including creation of a critical care workforce multiplier to meet unforeseen healthcare demands in New York City at the beginning of COVID, which his organization was able to recreate and deploy nationally during a time of crisis.

Delivering high-quality and economically-viable care in an environment where your team enjoys coming to work is a significant challenge for every senior executive in healthcare today. Hopefully, as you work to achieve and continuously improve this environment of productive collaboration and care, you will take something valuable from our conversation today.

You can find Trinity Health Advisors at TrinityHealthAdvisors.com.

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Matt Cannon is a 38-year-old senior executive with one of the largest publicly traded specialty hospital companies in the world. He was promoted to hospital CEO at the age of 25 and quickly rose through the ranks in a high accountability environment, in an industry where the average first timeCEO is 57 years old. Today, Matt shares how he was able to effectively coach and manage teams of leaders who have been in the industry longer than he has been alive. We also discuss how he was able to enter such a competitive industry after grad school, in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, and the not-so-secret formula to his rapid success.

Matt, undoubtedly, will be a key influencer for the specialty hospital and post acute care industry of the future. Today, he provides perspectives on long term acute care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, and the unbelievable patient outcomes his organization is able to achieve by combining these levels of care when an acute care hospital refers patients to his hospitals. We discuss innovation, the relationship his organization has with physicians, case managers, and those who refer patients to their hospitals. What is the future of the industry? Matt shares a simple vision and the path to achieve excellence as technology and humanity evolve.

Stark Lane is best known for providing organizations with the leaders who make quality healthcare possible. For more than two decades, I have spent my days searching for impactful leaders and those on a mission to make significant positive change for humanity. This podcast not only brings these extraordinary people to you, uncovering the secrets totheir success in business and life, but we also provide tools, support, and ideas to help launch and elevate your career in this complex and competitive world. starklane.com

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Running hospitals is not easy. Join us for a conversation with Susan Bailey, an accomplished hospital industry executive, with successful CEO and corporate operations experience in all time zones across the continental US. Susan discusses leadership and humanity, something often missing in contemporary, high-pressure times when hospital CEOs have difficulty keeping staff, making payroll, and maintaining compliance with ever-increasing regulatory scrutiny.

Stark Lane is best known for providing organizations with the leaders who make quality healthcare possible. For more than two decades, I have spent my days searching for impactful leaders and those on a mission to make significant positive change for humanity. This YouTube channel not only brings these extraordinary people to you, uncovering the secrets to their success in business and life, but we also provide tools, support, and ideas to help you launch and elevate your career in this complex and competitive world.

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