YCSC Grand Rounds: LET(s)Lead—Leading with Authenticity & Developing Leaders by Developing Ourselves

This session is the second of the 2024-2025 leadership-focused Grand Rounds special lecture series, Exploring and Enhancing Leadership in the Academy. The goal of this series is to provide an open forum with leaders who are committed to principles of collaboration and service, at the Yale School of Medicine and beyond.

Session Description

"Free your mind, and the rest will follow" (Foster, Levert, & McElroy). Living and leading authentically allows for all involved growth and development - "leaders and followers." Authenticity has to be cultivated, nurtured, and practiced, and reflection has to occur to make it stick. How can we develop emerging leaders to lead authentically using their lived expertise while developing ourselves? This discussion features two of the founders of the Yale Lived Experience Transformation Leadership Academy (LET(s)Lead, Chyrell Bellamy and Maria Restrepo Toro, discussing how they partner and how LET(s)Lead centers women and women of color as leaders and incorporates leadership principles such as appreciative inquiry, healing racism, and transformational leadership strategies through the Yale Department of Psychiatry Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH).

The objectives for this session are for participants to learn:

• Suggestions of how to lead with authenticity
• Ways to develop emerging leaders
• About lived experience leadership and how it can be used to enhance organizations and communities

Continuing Education

This session is approved for Continuing Education Credit (CEC) by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. This session also meets the requirement for cultural competence. Additional information and instructions for earning CEC for this session will be provided at the live event.

YCSC Grand Rounds are reviewed for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits on an annual basis and most lecture-style sessions are approved for the year. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

YCSC Grand Rounds sessions are typically presented in the Cohen Auditorium at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesdays from September through June, with a live stream available via Zoom. Internal participants are encouraged to attend sessions in person​​​​​. Recordings are posted on-line as soon as they are available.