Leadership Doesn’t Come With a Playbook. We Help You Build One.

Stepping into perioperative leadership is exciting — and overwhelming. Periop Leader Week, formerly OR Manager Conference and OR Business Management Summit, equips new and emerging leaders with the foundational skills, business knowledge, and confidence needed to lead teams and drive results.

Tools, Answers, and Allies—For Every Perioperative Leader.

You Were Promoted for Your Expertise.

Now You’re Leading People.

As a new leader, you may be navigating:

Managing former peers
Difficult conversations and conflict
Staffing challenges you didn’t control
Budget discussions you weren’t trained for
Executive meetings where expectations are high

You don’t need to figure it out alone. You need guidance from leaders who’ve already walked this path.

Build the Foundation That Sustains Your Career

The New Leader programming focuses on practical skills you can apply immediately. Take a look at some sessions hand-picked for you:

Emotional regulation in leadership: The hidden superpower in high-stakes surgical environments
Managing generational and cultural diversity: How to build cohesive, respectful, successful clinical teams in today’s perioperative settings
Survey prep: Play the hits and avoid the misses
When less must be more: A resource prioritization round table
All about supplies: Containing costs, keeping your ORs stocked and preparing for disruptions
Refuel your leadership tank: Building your mindset and energy for the long run
What’s on your dashboard? Data that perioperative leaders should analyze and track to make vital decisions
Cybersecurity in the OR: Safeguarding patient safety and surgical workflow
The bad stuff: Handling disruptive staff, abusive surgeon-owners, drug diversion and violence at the ASC
“What would you say you DO here?” The changing role of the perioperative business leader to hospital operations
Partners in performance: how Baylor University Medical Center uses analytics and surgeon-clinic engagement to unlock OR capacity
The end of the CMS Inpatient-Only List: Impacts and strategies for hospitals and health systems
Don’t go it alone: How and why you should partner with your NPD/educator to solve problems and develop staff
Embrace it, don’t fear it: How and why to use AI and other technology to be a more effective and efficient leader