Emergent Leadership for our Times: A Life-Affirming Approach to Collaborative Leadership  

Note: This is a recording of a live webinar held on June 20, 2024. 

Training Overview:

This session will introduce the participant to regenerative leadership (RL)- a positive, strength-based, relational, and adaptive approach to leading in complex times. The webinar will focus first on the concept of “leading with your whole self” and then define the RL approach to collaborating in complex contexts.  The webinar will introduce the key mindset shifts required to develop your RL capabilities as well as specific skills required for more effective, collaborative leadership in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) times.  

About the Presenter:

Dr. Marissa Levine is Professor of Public Health Practice at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Public Health (COPH) and collaborating faculty to the Department of Family Medicine and the Division of Infectious Diseases at the USF Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa, Florida. Her primary focus is on leadership for population health improvement. Dr. Levine directs the USF Center for Leadership in Public Health Practice at COPH where she teaches a positive, strength-based, systems thinking approach to leading in complex contexts, called regenerative leadership.  

Dr. Levine is a retired family physician with 16 years of medical practice experience including as residency director for a family medicine residency. She subsequently completed 16 years of state government service culminating in being appointed as the Virginia State Health Commissioner and agency head for the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) from 2014-2018. As Commissioner, Dr. Levine led the effort to create an action framework for population health improvement called Virginia’s Plan for Well-Being and led significant public health emergency preparedness and response activities as the state ESF-8 lead.

This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UB6HP31680, Public Health Training Centers for $4,348,992. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.