The Health Leader Forge: executive director

Sunday, September 15, 2019

Lisa Couture, Executive Director, Krempels Center

Today’s guest is Lisa Couture, the Executive Director of Krempels Center. The Krempels Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people living with acquired brain injury. In partnership with universities and community volunteers, the Krempels Center offers programs that engage its members in meaningful and productive experiences and provides ongoing support and resources to those, including survivors and family members, impacted by brain injury.

Lisa is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, having double majored in Social Work and Outdoor Education. She served in a variety of leadership roles in a number of organizations leading up to her position as the Executive Director in 2009. In the full length version of the interview, we discuss her early career as well as her time at the Krempels Center.

The full-length interview runs about 90 minutes. I have produced an abridged version that runs about forty minutes.

Anchor:

Abridged version: https://anchor.fm/healthleaderforge/episodes/Lisa-Couture--Executive-Director--Krempels-Center-abridged-egra77

Full length version: https://anchor.fm/healthleaderforge/episodes/Lisa-Couture--Executive-Director--Kremples-Center-full-length-egra6e

iTunes: https://anchor.fm/healthleaderforge/episodes/Lisa-Couture--Executive-Director--Kremples-Center-full-length-egra6e

Stitcher: https://listen.stitcher.com/yvap/?af_dp=stitcher://episode/63910870&af_web_dp=https://www.stitcher.com/episode/63910870

YouTube: https://youtu.be/meedkn1duyM

Interview Outline (full-length)
Time Topic
0:01:50 double major at UNH - Social Work and Outdoor Ed
0:09:08 first job - school for troubled youth - learning about cultural fit
0:11:10 working in a one-on-one setting
0:12:14 meeting a founder and mentor - what makes a founder
0:14:05 grad school - going back to learn to run an organization
0:19:36 developing Birch Tree Center
0:21:10 NH Department of Health and Human Services - Homeless Services
0:24:14 first executive director of Fair Tide
0:28:30 professionalization of the organization
0:31:25 Rockingham Community Action - Outreach Program Director
0:35:56 about the Kremple's Center, members
0:38:35 about the founder and history of the Center
0:40:01 partnering with UNH - bringing in students to work with members
0:42:37 about the ongoing programming
0:47:50 collaboration between the Center and UNH
0:51:04 discussion of therapeutic recreation activities
0:52:59 membership and cost of participation
0:55:03 role of the Executive Director
0:56:52 fund raising and budget
1:00:39 many hats
1:01:47 functions of a non-profit board of trustees
1:08:06 what keeps an ED up at night
1:10:31 impact of the financial crisis of '08/'09 on finances and operations
1:11:38 what is most challenging about the non-profit sector
1:13:36 future of Kremples - growth opportunities
1:16:05 leadership philosophy
1:17:08 organizational culture
1:19:19 mentorship
1:20:45 advice to early careerists

Links to Topics Discussed

Krempels Center

University of New Hampshire Department of Social Work

University of New Hampshire Outdoor Education and Leadership Program

Birchtree Center

Fair Tide

Southern New Hampshire Services (was Rockingham Community Action)

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Thursday, September 15, 2016

Raymond A. Levy, Psy.D., Executive Director, The Fatherhood Project

Today's guest is Dr. Raymond A. Levy, the Executive Director of the Fatherhood Project. The Fatherhood Project is a non-profit fatherhood program in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, MA. The mission of the program is to improve the health and well-being of children and families by empowering fathers to be knowledgeable, active, and emotionally engaged with their children.

Dr. Levy is a clinical psychologist specializing in psychoanalysis, with over thirty five years of experience in the field. In this podcast we talk about the training Dr. Levy underwent to become a psychotherapist and his career leading up to his founding of the Fatherhood Project. We then talk about the origins of the Fatherhood Project, the kinds of programming and research Dr. Levy’s team undertakes, and the challenges of running a small, mission oriented non-profit.

I think listeners will get a lot out of this interview. First, Dr. Levy does a very nice job explaining the field of psychotherapy which is very interesting. Second, his discussion of how the Fatherhood Project grew out of a research project is enlightening about the origins of great innovations.

Links to the Podcast:

Anchor: https://anchor.fm/healthleaderforge/episodes/Raymond-A--Levy--Psy-D---Executive-Director--The-Fatherhood-Project-egra79

Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-health-leader-forge

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/healthleaderforge/id981989377

Transcript: A transcript of the podcast is available here.

Podcast Outline

time		topic
0:02:07		educational background and early experience
0:07:29		what is psychotherapy?
0:08:53		what does success look like in psychotherapy?
0:10:23		the psychodynamic approach - getting beyond our adaptations
0:14:25		early career, getting established as a provider
0:18:02		achieving competence as a provider, the ongoing process of supervision
0:22:12		peer supervision
0:24:13		psychiatry vs. psychology
0:26:53		finding the right tool for the right problem
0:27:59		appointments at medical schools, teaching at affiliated hospitals
0:29:35		changing affiliation to Massachusetts General
0:30:31		inpatient vs. outpatient care
0:31:37		common misperceptions about psychotherapy
0:33:00		the origins of The Fatherhood Project
0:37:25		the Harvard study of adult development
0:38:27		adding programming to The Fatherhood Project
0:40:13		the evolution of the Project
0:41:24		the role of Executive Director
0:42:30		the significance of publishing in academic journals and presenting at academic conferences
0:45:38		The Fatherhood Project programs
0:52:03		evaluating the effectiveness of programs
0:52:51		the link between psychotherapy to parenting
0:55:20		what makes a good father?
0:57:50		the Fatherhood Project as an organization
0:59:25		financing the organization
1:00:35		advice to people who want to start organizations like the Fatherhood Project
1:02:03		the most significant challenges of running the organization
1:05:15		what should early careerists in healthcare admin know about mental health?

Links to Selected Topics Discussed

The Fatherhood Project

Father's Day and the Evolving Role of a Dad - short article by Dr. Levy

William James College (Formerly the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology)

Massachusetts General Department of Psychiatry

Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry

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