When Everything Is a Priority: Leading Strategic Focus in Disrupted Systems (11 Jun 2026)

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT

In an environment where disruption is constant and competing demands are relentless, organizations often find themselves in a state where everything is a priority. This session focuses on what leaders actually do in that moment: how they decide what to stop, what to sequence, and what to defer – and how they communicate those decisions in a way that maintains trust and alignment.

IQC — in partnership with PEN, WCPE, and GRQC— is pleased to host an online webinar discussion on Thursday, June 11th: “When Everything Is a Priority: Leading Strategic Focus in Disrupted Systems.”

Attendees will explore how leaders can cut through complexity to establish clarity, focus, and disciplined execution. This session will outline a practical, integrated approach that connects the strategic plan, organizational action plan, and project portfolio management processes into a cohesive system for decision-making. Participants will learn how to define a limited set of organizational priorities, translate them into actionable goals, and use structured portfolio management methods to assess which projects advance strategic outcomes and which should be deferred or stopped.

Participants will:

Simplify deployment of your strategic priorities to the workforce
Apply structured methods to evaluate and prioritize initiatives
Establish governance models that ensure execution discipline and accountability
Use data-driven approaches to continuously reassess priorities in dynamic environments

Our Speakers

Our speakers join us from Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, Iowa. In 2019 the organization achieved the nation’s highest level of recognition for performance excellence – the National Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award.

Karen Kiel Rosser, MHA, LSSGB
Karen brings deep experience leading strategy and quality in a complex healthcare environment, where competing priorities, limited capacity, and real-world consequences require clear, disciplined decision-making. She is known for connecting strategic direction to operational execution in ways that are practical, transparent, and sustainable.

Whitney Johnson, MBA, LSSGB
Whitney partners in advancing strategic and operational alignment, supporting the translation of organizational priorities into actionable work across teams and systems.

Who should attend:

This session is for leaders working in environments where:

priorities regularly compete for limited time, capacity, and resources
multiple initiatives are active, but focus and alignment are unclear
decisions about what to stop or defer carry real organizational impact

Especially relevant for:

senior and mid-level leaders
strategy, quality, and operations professionals
healthcare, nonprofit, public sector, and mission-driven organizations

Thursday, June 11 | 8:00–9:00am CT
(Optional networking and mingling from 7:45–8:00)
Format: Zoom meeting
Investment price: Included with membership for PEN/WCPE/IQC members | $20 for non‑members

Can’t make it live? Register anyway – all registered attendees will receive access to the recording.

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