DRIVE
Delivering Results, Innovation and Value in Execution
Building on the Weatherhead School of Management's decades-long legacy of advancing the business of healthcare, Case Western Reserve University proudly introduces DRIVE—a next-generation healthcare learning experience designed to help senior leaders turn strategic priorities and organizational challenges into real-world solutions and measurable impact.
Bring us your challenge. Build your solution.
DRIVE is an immersive action-learning experience designed for senior and executive-level healthcare leaders who are ready to move strategic priorities into action. Throughout the program, participants work on a real initiative from their own organization while applying frameworks in leadership, innovation, and design thinking to develop practical, implementation-ready solutions.
What you will walk away with
This is not a theoretical exercise. You will work on a real challenge from your own organization throughout all eight courses, graduating with a tested intervention or a well-specified new program or service concept—complete with evidence, financial justification, and a clear implementation pathway. Your final deliverable is a professional presentation and executive brief ready for C-suite or board-level review.
Lead with purpose
Inspire alignment and momentum across diverse stakeholders.
Diagnose with precision
Identify root causes and frame challenges as strategic opportunities.
Design viable strategies
Build financially sound, operationally feasible solutions that advance patient outcomes and workforce engagement.
Implement effectively
Manage resistance and activate collaboration across clinical and administrative teams.
Evaluate and communicate impact
Translate outcomes into clear, compelling narratives for any audience, from frontline staff to boards.
Your Strategic Initiative: one focus, nine months
Your Strategic Initiative is the center of gravity for everything you do in DRIVE. From the first day of the program to the final presentation, you advance a real challenge your organization needs to solve—building the evidence, designing the strategy, and developing the implementation pathway to take it forward. Across eight courses delivered over nine months, you move beyond theory and apply action learning, innovation, and design thinking through a guided process of discovery, problem-solving, testing, and refinement. The program does not give you a project. You bring one. And you leave with something your organization can act on, as well as the ability to apply the skills learned to future challenges and initiatives.
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Set the stage
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Leadership & Purpose |
Why does this change matter, and are we ready to lead it? |
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Look
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Diagnose: Discovery & Analysis |
What is actually happening, and what does the evidence tell us? |
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Think
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Design: Action Planning |
What should we do, and how do we make it viable? |
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Act
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Implement & Monitor |
How do we execute, adapt, and sustain momentum? |
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Reflect
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Evaluate & Report |
What did we learn, what changed, and what comes next? |
Who should attend
DRIVE is designed for mid- to senior-level professionals across the healthcare ecosystem—and for the ambitious professionals on their way there. Participants are ready to lead transformation in complex, high-stakes environments and come from a broad range of functional disciplines including:
- Clinical leadership
- Administrative & operations
- HR & talent development
- IT & digital health
- Population & community health
- Quality patient experience
- Finance
Program format
Nine months, October 2026 through June 2027. Each course follows a consistent rhythm: an online module opens on Sunday (3 to 5 hours of self-paced work per week over four weeks), followed by a 3-hour in-person evening session with networking and panel discussions with healthcare executives, and a 10-hour in-person full-day session. Total program commitment: approximately 200 hours.
Program investment
PROGRAM FEE
$28,000
Per participant. Includes all materials, platform access, networking events, faculty guidance, and certificate. Corporate partnership pricing available.
First Cohort Launches
October 2026
Cohort size is limited to ensure an immersive, high-quality experience for every participant.
- All course materials and access to the online learning platform
- Evening networking events and panel discussions with healthcare leaders
- Faculty and practitioner guidance throughout your Strategic Initiative
- Certificate upon successful completion