Mountain Pacific Quality Health
Mountain Pacific Quality Health - Bob Janicek, Board Member
“Companies that are growing understand the value of leadership as an ingredient of success, especially in our highly volatile and ever-changing business and labor markets. SoundMind Leadership helped our organization rapidly evaluate talent, establish a comprehensive development plan, and move our leadership away from reactionary tendencies and into the creative spaces.”
Sara Medley, CEO
“Mountain-Pacific became acquainted with SoundMind Leadership the spring of 2021 when we engaged in a project involving the Leadership Circle Profile, and a coaching engagement with Steve Loveless and Darren Walker. After learning about the Leadership Circle Profile, we committed to engaging Steve and Darren to conduct profiles with our leadership team at the time. In addition, based on staff engagement survey feedback, we knew we needed to invest in our young professionals. I solicited applications for two 9 month long coaching engagements. Coaching of these two began and as a follow on, early in 2022, Darren and Steve led a retreat with my newly formed strategy team. Mindful of our budget, we committed to putting more of our leaders through a limited or abbreviated coaching engagement.
Recognizing the great benefits from the strategy team retreat; the abbreviated coaching engagements and the 9-month engagements, the board became interested in furthering its education around governance. Finally, after my announced retirement, the board engaged Steve Loveless to help manage the search process as the board navigated securing a replacement for me.
Never once, have I regretted engaging SoundMind. Consummate professionals who genuinely care about the team members they are coaching, and mentoring are rare. I am seeing positive results of the coaching modeled by those who have benefitted from the coaching experiences, provided by Steve Loveless and Darren Walker. “
Kristen Schuster, Director, Consulting Services Division
“Steve Loveless at SoundMind Leadership is an exemplary professional with a dedication to developing and tapping in to the leadership potential of his clients. During our coaching engagement, Steve and I worked to build up my capacity and understanding of what my leadership style and potential is using the Leadership Circle, monthly discussions, and ad hoc meetings to discuss day-to-day challenges I faced. Steve builds a trusting and transparent relationship with his clients to create an atmosphere of safety and trust. I am honored to have worked with him and continue to develop my leadership skills thanks to his coaching efforts.”
Crystal Morse, Sr. Account Manager
“As I stepped into a senior leadership role through Mountain Pacific Quality health, I was quickly introduced to Darren Walker of SoundMind Leadership. SoundMind Leadership came highly recommended by my colleagues as I began the coaching journey. Working with Darren has provided me the confidence and opportunity to grow in my leadership capacity, credibility, and engagement.
Darren’s leadership has had such a positive impact and I am grateful to this organization with professional and talented people. Thank you, SoundMind Leadership!”
Jill Hult, Sr. Account Manager
“After serving over 3 decades in a leadership role in healthcare, I was afforded an opportunity to engage in a comprehensive self-development leadership program with SoundMind. The tools, process and strategic engagement deployed by Sound Mind has been the most powerful introspective, self-discovery journey of my career. Darren’s kindness, forward thinking and intuitive sense from his many years as a human resource leader helped to create a safe space in which I could further explore and navigate professional strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities which will no doubt serve our organization well through my visionary leadership”.
