Erika Kimball is a RN and now Founder / CEO of Kimball Sustainable Healthcare, a sustainability consultancy that provides sustainability strategy, program development, change management, reporting and communications to the healthcare industry.

Erika appreciated the opportunity to gather with people from around the world to engage in meaningful learning and discussions around this topic of regenerative change. She talks about three specific focal points (or, as we like to call them, "stepping stones") that provided valuable insights she brings into her leadership and her business, and also to her clients: 1) Three Horizons, 2) Seasonality, 3) Conscious / Resilient Leadership practices.

The Three Horizons appealed to Erika because it provided her with a map to better understand the context around the multi-dimensional (or multi-horizon) work that is necessary in healthcare. She says that the healthcare system is designed for stability with structures and rules that enable quality care and community wellbeing; making change a challenge. You have to really understand these traditional structures, rules and cultures (Horizon 1) in order to be able to identify and create evidence-based pathways for more sustainable ways of operating (Horizon 2), while also having an eye on what's possible for whole-systems regenerative transformation (Horizon 3). She felt the Three Horizons helped ground her in recognizing and honoring how each of these horizons show up uniquely in healthcare.

From a Seasonality perspective, Erika says that looking at healthcare through the lens of the seasons helps her take a more holistic perspective to notice the patterns and cycles, the ebbs and flows of change, both in the industry and in the businesses with whom she is working. She says that it is easy to be caught in a linear mindset because the reality of working in a modern workplace is to be faced with an abundance of deliverables that can seem never-ending. Her role as a changemaker can feel overwhelming at times when there is always something to be moving forward. Seasonality, she says, helps shift her perspectives to notice and honor where things are, as opposed to where they "should be". She now likes to recognize and celebrate the seasonal phase-shifts of her initiatives, and work backwards from them when planning, so that the transitional phases can be celebrated instead of simply looking at the end result as a win or a loss.

Erika is a systems thinker who likes to ask these questions of her clients: "What is your system designed for?" and "How do you want people in your system to feel?" and "What are the system elements that need to be put in place to honor the unique viewpoints of the people in the system?" She says this course offered her a new set of tools and frameworks, or new ways of applying living systems principles and practices to time-tested change tools, that have helped her uncover new levels of resiliency in her own leadership as well as regenerative pathways for personal development and culture change inside of her client ecosystems.

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To learn more about Erika, please visit:

Website: http://kimballshc.com 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erika-kimball-8b2392a/