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FranklinCovey On Leadership

Ryannon Frederick: Human-Centered Leadership in Healthcare

FranklinCovey On Leadership

FranklinCovey

Management, Business

4.6215 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

How do you lead transformation in an environment where the stakes are life and death and “the way it’s always been” feels hardwired? In this episode, Ryannon Frederick, Chief Nursing Officer at Mayo Clinic, joins Jennifer Colosimo to talk about what human-centered leadership looks like in practice. Ryannon shares how she pushes herself and her teams beyond incremental change by borrowing ideas from outside healthcare, challenging limiting beliefs, and using “imagine a world where…” prompts to unlock big thinking. She describes Mayo’s “for nurses, by nurses” approach to innovation, why the people closest to the work are best positioned to spot opportunities, and how pairing frontline clinicians with non-clinical experts sparks new solutions. Along the way, she highlights the daily behaviors that build trust, psychological safety, and engagement across 26,000 nurses—and why the toughest leaders she’s worked for ultimately helped her grow the most. The views expressed in this interview are those of Ryannon Frederick and do not reflect the views of their employer. Caring for the Caregivers: https://resources.franklincovey.com/c/tlg-caring-for-the-caregivers?x=j4G37p&lb-mode=overlay As a global leadership and organizational performance partner, we give strategy the human edge™. For 40 years, FranklinCovey has helped tens of thousands of leaders, teams, and organizations around the world achieve breakthrough results and transform how they execute strategy at scale. To learn more, email us at info@franklincovey.com, visit franklincovey.com, or call us at: 1-888-868-1776

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0:00.0

with my team, one of the best ways to drive transformative thinking is to imagine a world without

0:06.2

or imagine a world with and start with really big ideas, really big thinking. I think especially

0:14.9

in healthcare because there's so much ingrained in the way it's always been. And that mindset I find in myself also gets

0:25.1

kind of ingrained in what I call limiting beliefs of the way things have to be. And sometimes

0:31.8

the best way to break that is to start from scratch. So imagine a world where and really opening your brain to the possibilities

0:40.3

because I think too much we're trying to solve and transform around constraints that have

0:47.2

always been there, but maybe don't need to be there, especially if you think big.

0:55.2

Welcome to Franklin Covey's On Leadership.

0:58.6

I'm your host, Jennifer Colisemo.

1:01.6

Today, I'm joined by Riannon Frederick,

1:04.4

chief nursing officer at Mayo Clinic,

1:07.6

a global leader in patient care,

1:10.3

research, and innovation.

1:13.1

Riannon leans thousands of nurses and care teams in a 24-7 environment where the stakes could

1:19.3

not be higher. She knows better than anyone that leadership is not abstract.

1:25.7

It's the mindsets, language, and everyday behaviors that directly shape engagement,

1:33.0

well-being, and the quality of care patients receive. In our conversation, we talk about the human-centered

1:40.5

leadership that can ignite creativity, strength and culture, enhance engagement,

1:46.5

and improve outcomes across an entire organization.

1:50.8

Welcome, Marianne to On Leadership.

1:53.6

We're so happy to have you here.

1:55.1

Oh, thank you so much.

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