Navigator
Sense-making before commitment
A companion to Operational Leadership in Healthcare
Leadership changes when the situation does.
Discover the operating modes you reach for most—and the ones worth activating when your usual approach is not enough.
18 statements · 4–6 minutes · Immediate developmental feedback
How yourespond
NavigatorCatalystArchitectConnectorDeveloperStewardBuilt from the realities behind the title
“The title often arrives before the preparation does.”
Michael Cormier created the Operational Leadership Institute after more than two decades of leading in healthcare operations. The Institute turns lessons shaped by staffing pressure, difficult decisions, organizational change, and everyday accountability into practical development resources leaders can use immediately.
Why the Institute—and the OLRP—were created
Experience shaped into practical leadership development
New from Michael D. Cormier
Leadership is not a label. It is a response.
Leadership Is a Response connects the six OLRP modes to the situations leaders face every day—helping readers recognize their default, understand when it is being overused, and activate a more effective response.
See the insight before you begin
Preview a sample leadership evaluation.
Explore a fictional result to see how the OLRP connects leadership patterns to strengths, overuse risks, reflection prompts, and practical next steps.
Not a personality box
A practical view of leadership behavior.
The OLRP looks at six useful ways leaders respond to decisions, people, pressure, and operations. Your result describes a current pattern—not a permanent identity or a rank.
✓ Built for healthcare leadership✓ Preserves ties✓ Connected to book chapters
Six operating modes
Each mode adds value. Each carries an overuse risk.
Catalyst
Movement when the system is stuck
Architect
Structure that makes execution reliable
Connector
Trust and understanding that make alignment possible
Developer
Capability and ownership that outlast the leader
Steward
Purpose, standards, and trust protected over time
From insight to action
Your result is a starting point, not the finish line.
- 1Respond
Rate what you have actually done—not what an ideal leader should do.
- 2See your pattern
Review primary, secondary, lower-access, and blended-mode feedback.
- 3Practice differently
Use one 30-day behavior and a targeted chapter path from the book.