Living with integrity is an essential component to being an effective leader. In this episode Grace and Doug are joined by our Chief Compliance Officer, Jim Hearty as they explore how to best live and lead with our Core Value of integrity. Having integrity means living true to your values all of the time, even when it is difficult. While that is easier said than done, join us as Jim shares personal and professional accounts of challenges he has faced in living with integrity and reveals ways to realign with your values to best live and lead with our Core Value of integrity. Like what you heard in this episode? Rate us on iTunes or your favorite podcast app!GUEST: Jim O, Hearty, Chief Compliance Officer HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller, Senior Directors, WisdomFor DaVita teammates, please visit to learn more about our guests and hosts, and listen to our other episodes.Share your thoughts and comments about our podcast here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLIPodcastEvalHave an idea about a topic you want to hear in 2021, or a mini-insight? Share it with us here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLITopicIdeas 

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Episode 70 Leading with Integrity with Jim Hearty

Join Grace, Doug, and Pioneer Director of Operations Strategy, Joseph Garcia as they lean into our Core Value of Continuous Improvement. In this episode, Joseph shares how he leads with continuous improvement though personal accounts of the potential consequences of forgetting to live this core value and practical ways to continuously lead teams to improve. As Grace, Doug, and Joseph unpack this core value it becomes clear that it is important to acknowledge the self-awareness and self-reflection it takes to create space for continuous improvement. Joseph shares helpful ways to manage the balance of striving for continuous improvement against perfection. Tune in to learn more about how to mindfully lead with our Core Value of Continuous Improvement!  GUEST: Joseph Garcia, Director of Operations Strategy, Pioneer HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller, Senior Directors, Wisdom For DaVita teammates, please visit to learn more about our guests and hosts, and listen to our other episodes. Share your thoughts and comments about our podcast here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLIPodcastEval Have an idea about a topic you want to hear in 2021, or a mini-insight? Share it with us here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLITopicIdeas  

Episode 69 Leading With Continuous Improvement with Joseph Garcia

  As a leader, having capacity is vital in providing availability, time, and accessibility to support your team. But how can you serve your team when feeling limited in capacity? In the first episode of Season 11 Group Vice President for Avanti, Matt Henn, shares his personal accounts on how he serves his lane by ensuring he has sufficient capacity to support his responsibilities. Matt shares practical tips on ways to intentionally measure your capacity along with ways to assess whether your time aligns with your priorities to better serve our Village. GUEST: Matt Henn, Group Vice President, Avanti HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller, Senior Directors, Wisdom For DaVita teammates, please visit to learn more about our guests and hosts, and listen to our other episodes. Share your thoughts and comments about our podcast here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLIPodcastEval Have an idea about a topic you want to hear in 2021, or a mini-insight? Share it with us here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLITopicIdeas    

Episode 68 How to Manage Capacity and Prioritize

Do you ever find yourself struggling to find the balance of letting perfection get in the way of good work? If so, you’re not the only one. In this episode guest Briah Carey, DVP if Commercial Operations, highlights how perfectionism can get in the way of getting the right stuff done while sharing personal accounts of how she has learned to manage her struggle for perfection. Being a great leader means prioritizing your time correctly, taking care of yourself, and making the right decisions of how to spend your time effectively. Tune into learn how to avoid perfectionism, take risks, and give yourself permission to not let great stand in the way of good enough.    GUEST: Briah Carey, Division Vice President, Commercial Operations HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller, Senior Directors, Wisdom For DaVita teammates, please visit to learn more about our guests and hosts, and listen to our other episodes. Share your thoughts and comments about our podcast here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLIPodcastEval Have an idea about a topic you want to hear in 2021, or a mini-insight? Share it with us here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLITopicIdeas  

Episode 67 Don't Let Great Stand in the Way of Good Enough

 To recognize mental health awareness month, Anna Fields, Virtual Training Moderator shares an insightful tip on how to support your teammates on their mental health journey Mini-insights come from our teammates far and wide around the Village. This bi-weekly listener mail showcasing is a fantastic way to hear from our listening leaders. HOSTED BY: Grace Berman & Doug Miller, Senior Directors, Wisdom For DaVita teammates, please visit podcast.davitaway.com to learn more about our guests and hosts, and listen to our other episodes. Share your thoughts and comments about our podcast here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLIPodcastEval. Have an idea on a topic you want to hear in 2021? Share it with us here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLITopicIdeas

Mini Insights 32: Lister Insight from Anna Fields

  To recognize mental health awareness month, Anna Fields, Virtual Training Moderator shares an insightful tip on how to support your teammates on their mental health journey   Mini-insights come from our teammates far and wide around the Village. This bi-weekly listener mail showcasing is a fantastic way to hear from our listening leaders. HOSTED BY: Grace Berman & Doug Miller, Senior Directors, Wisdom For DaVita teammates, please visit podcast.davitaway.com to learn more about our guests and hosts, and listen to our other episodes. Share your thoughts and comments about our podcast here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLIPodcastEval. Have an idea on a topic you want to hear in 2021? Share it with us here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLITopicIdeas

 To recognize mental health awareness month in May this episode explores how to lead with mental health. Our guest, Spencer Westcott shares the importance of leading with mental health while addressing the stigma attached to mental health in the workplace. Spencer shares his personal experience with mental health in his life, how it affected his leadership in the workplace, and how he worked through managing his mental health and leading his team to succeed with their mental health in mind. Like what you heard in this episode? Rate us on iTunes or your favorite podcast app! GUEST: Spencer Westcott, Division Vice President, Trailblazers HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller, Senior Directors, Wisdom For DaVita teammates, please visit to learn more about our guests and hosts, and listen to our other episodes. Share your thoughts and comments about our podcast here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLIPodcastEval Have an idea about a topic you want to hear in 2021, or a mini-insight? Share it with us here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLITopicIdeas 

Episode 66 Leading with Mental Health with Spencer Westcott

  To recognize mental health awareness month in May this episode explores how to lead with mental health. Our guest, Spencer Westcott shares the importance of leading with mental health while addressing the stigma attached to mental health in the workplace. Spencer shares his personal experience with mental health in his life, how it affected his leadership in the workplace, and how he worked through managing his mental health and leading his team to succeed with their mental health in mind. Like what you heard in this episode? Rate us on iTunes or your favorite podcast app! GUEST: Spencer Westcott, Division Vice President, Trailblazers HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller, Senior Directors, Wisdom For DaVita teammates, please visit to learn more about our guests and hosts, and listen to our other episodes. Share your thoughts and comments about our podcast here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLIPodcastEval Have an idea about a topic you want to hear in 2021, or a mini-insight? Share it with us here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLITopicIdeas  

How would you define a diverse team? What opportunities and challenges come with having diverse teams? Join our guests Simone Wheeler and Julian Gordon as they share insights on what it means to lead diverse teams. From race, gender, age, nationality, skillset and even personality type; teammates within an organization come from all walks of life. In this episode, Julian and Simone share their personal accounts on the benefits and the complexities that come with embracing and celebrating diversity as leaders on their teams.   Like what you heard in this episode? Rate us on iTunes or your favorite podcast app!   GUEST: Simone Wheeler, Regional Operations Director, Team Endeavor and Julian Gorgon, Regional Operations Director, Post-Acute Services HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller, Senior Directors, Wisdom For DaVita teammates, please visit to learn more about our guests and hosts, and listen to our other episodes. Share your thoughts and comments about our podcast here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLIPodcastEval Have an idea about a topic you want to hear in 2021, or a mini-insight? Share it with us here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLITopicIdeas 

Episode 65 Leading Diverse Teams with Simone Wheeler and Julian Gordon

 In our first episode of 2021 we gain insight from Valerie Lyeder on how to stay true to your core through difficult times while being an adaptive leader. Valerie explains the importance of authenticity in being an adaptive, confident, and innovative leader by sharing stories from her own journey in learning to embrace her leadership style. In this episode, you’ll come to realize that at the heart of being true to yourself as a leader is being true to your values.  As you listen to Valerie’s personal accounts of discovering her core values, start to ask yourself what are your core values and how can you leverage them in your leadership? Like what you heard in this episode? Rate us on iTunes or your favorite podcast app! GUEST: Valerie Lyeder, DVP, MiraMonte HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller, Senior Directors, Wisdom For DaVita teammates, please visit to learn more about our guests and hosts, and listen to our other episodes. Share your thoughts and comments about our podcast here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLIPodcastEval Have an idea about a topic you want to hear in 2021, or a mini-insight? Share it with us here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLITopicIdeas 

Episode 64 Staying True to Yourself While Being an Adaptive Leader with Valerie Lyeder

For the first insight of 2021 Amber Dassow, a Facility Administrator from Wisconsin shares a helpful tip on how to better receive feedback and manage gossip that isn’t always easy to hear.     Mini-insights come from our teammates far and wide around the Village. This bi-weekly listener mail showcasing is a fantastic way to hear from our listening leaders. SUBMIT YOUR LISTENER MAIL! Share your leadership advice here. HOSTED BY: Grace Berman & Doug Miller, Senior Directors, Wisdom For DaVita teammates, please visit podcast.davitaway.com to learn more about our guests and hosts, and listen to our other episodes. Share your thoughts and comments about our podcast here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLIPodcastEval. Have an idea on a topic you want to hear in 2019? Share it with us here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLITopicIdeas

Mini Insights 31: Listener Insight from Amber Dassow

 This week, our new Chief Wisdom Officer, Stacey Irving, shares her belief that personal and professional growth comes down to safety and genuine trust. Trusting environments allow for teams and individuals to reach their greatest potential, and in this episode, Stacey shares feedback she has received to become more authentic and trustworthy, and times she has coached others towards trust. “Don’t worry what people want to hear – tell them what you believe they need to hear, and the rest will follow.” Tune in to learn how listening and executing on your commitments can help you build trust as a leader! Like what you heard in this episode? Rate us on iTunes or your favorite podcast app! GUEST: Stacey Irving, Chief Wisdom Officer HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller, Senior Directors, Wisdom For DaVita teammates, please visit to learn more about our guests and hosts, and listen to our other episodes. Share your thoughts and comments about our podcast here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLIPodcastEval Have an idea about a topic you want to hear in 2020, or a mini-insight? Share it with us here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLITopicIdeas 

Episode 63: How to Build Trust as a Leader with Stacey Irving

 This week, two teammates from our Nurse Advisor Team, Denise Latham-Lee and Angus Power, dive into one of the five elements of belonging: voice. They share stories about times they have empowered teammates to have a voice, through demonstrating care, trust, and deep listening. Denise and Angus also reflect on times they have not led as strongly, and how this impacted their teammates experience and satisfaction in the Village. Tune in for tips of how to listen beyond the words of “I’m okay,” and how open communication and feedback can transform your teammate’s experience of belonging. Like what you heard in this episode? Rate us on iTunes or your favorite podcast app! GUESTS: Denise Latham-Lee and Angus Power, Director and Special Projects Manager, Nursing HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller, Senior Directors, Wisdom For DaVita teammates, please visit to learn more about our guests and hosts, and listen to our other episodes. Share your thoughts and comments about our podcast here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLIPodcastEval Have an idea about a topic you want to hear in 2020, or a mini-insight? Share it with us here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLITopicIdeas 

Episode 62: How to Give your Teammates a Voice with Angus Power and Denise Latham-Lee

  Making a decision as a leader can be tough, especially when you don’t always have data that points to the “right” answer. This week, Dr. Jeff Giullian, DaVita’s Chief Medical Officer, discusses how important it is to have an internal compass – your core values – to help make these decisions. Dr. G shares about the tough feedback he received in medical school that showcased how important it is to outwardly demonstrate your personal values. He also shares stories about how success in the DaVita Village is strongly tied to how we build trust with one another and share how our values motivate and drive us. His one tip will help you identify your core values and become a stronger leader. Like what you heard in this episode? Rate us on iTunes or your favorite podcast app! GUEST: Dr. Jeff Giullian, Chief Medical Officer, DaVita HOSTED BY: Grace Berman and Doug Miller, Senior Directors, Wisdom For DaVita teammates, please visit to learn more about our guests and hosts, and listen to our other episodes. Share your thoughts and comments about our podcast here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLIPodcastEval Have an idea about a topic you want to hear in 2020, or a mini-insight? Share it with us here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DLITopicIdeas    

Episode 61: Leading with Your Personal Values with Dr. Jeff Giullian

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