How to Identify and Overcome Common Leadership Derailing Behaviors with Dr. Sue Padernacht

She is the CEO of Ncline Leadership Strategies, bringing over 35 years of experience and expertise in organizational, leadership, team, and negotiations coaching, training, consulting, public speaking, and facilitation to her practice. Her healthcare provider and supplier clients have ranged from multinational public corporations to small privately held companies, working with multiple levels of healthcare providers in various medical specialties.

Padernacht has also been an Excellence in Teaching Award-winning Professor in Organization and Management at UC Irvine Merage business school since 2005, and has joined the UC San Diego Rady business school in 2024. She teaches leadership, negotiations, and talent strategy courses to MD/MBAs and to physicians and other healthcare providers going to business school to earn an Executive MBA.

She earned a Doctor of Education from the University of Southern California in Organizational Change and Leadership in 2022. Her research focused on “Physician Burnout in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Healthcare Organization and Leadership Implications for Patient Care and Clinical Team Leadership with Nurses.”

She holds a Master of Arts from Columbia University in Organizational Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and the Social & Ethical Issues in the Life Sciences from SUNY @ Stony Brook. She is also a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation.

She is currently a member of the National Board of Directors of the American Lung Association where she has been involved in lung health and air quality-related issues since 2010. Previously, she served on the Board at the American Cancer Society for 17 years.