AuthorPreneurElite

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Advocate Health Care

Currently manage cardiology PACS including leading application upgrades, hardware upgrades, contract negotiations, and end-user training. 
Managed the employee health and occupational medicine EMR, leading it through a software upgrade, hardware upgrade, contract negotiation, and end-user training
Work with managers and directors across multiple teams (infrastructure, field services, security, networking, and help desk) to improve SLA's and response times
Coach and train junior analysts 
Led multiple EMR implementations across multiple specialties: OB/Gyne, Primary Care, Endocrinology, Uro-Gynecology, and Dermatology
Provide technical support for ambulatory EMR for 2000 physicians
Work with site managers to ensure Meaningful Use objectives are met by physicians
Analyze workflow and processes across multiple specialties and offices to identify areas for improvement including customizing notes for various specialties and optimizing billing processes
Resolve issues with disparate laboratory interfaces, ensuring test results flow into EMR correctly
Provide extensive on-site support for physicians, nurses, and medical assistants during EMR implementations

Senior System Administrator

Consultant

Marcus Evans

Senior Account Executive

Hewitt Associates

Business Analyst

My life has been an adventure. 

If I told you stories, you'd cry (read more)

I've always been an "outsider".

I wanted to be a Buddhist monk when I was 10 - shortly after my parents divorce. 

I got into drugs, alcohol, petty crime at age 12 

(Don’t worry, I haven't touched drugs or alcohol since I was 14)

And then things got interesting…

I bounced around between my parents. 

Experienced bullying, abuse, betrayal, and neglect. 

Learned about Islam and became Muslim. 

I worked for an international relief agency. 

It was the 90’s so I saw the horrors of the Bosnian war (systematic rape and genocide)

The Kashmiri conflict (brutal military occupation)

The Babri masjid massacres in India (people hacked with machetes and burned alive)

The chaos in Central Asia after the fall of the Soviet Union (families with children crossing the Dushanbe river)

I also lived in Chicago and experienced:

Carjackings (3 of my friends have been carjacked)

Drive by shootings (at the park)

Home burglaries.

The assault and battery of my mom by an armed robber. 

Police helicopter air raids. 

I have friends that have been shot - and I have friends that have shot others. 

Because I lived in Rogers Park (the most ethnically diverse neighborhood in the United States) I had:

Cambodian friends. 

Eritrean friends. 

Romanian friends. 

Bosnian friends. 

Black friends. 

Irish Catholic friends. 

Mexican friends. 

I have childhood friends that have seen war and killing in their home countries - prior to coming to the US. 

As a result of my upbringing- I committed my life to spreading Islam because I saw (and see) it as a solution to a lot of problems. 

I dedicated my life to it. 

And I got married at the age of 19. 

My parents betrayed me and my new bride because of their hatred for each other. 

I spent the next 20 years teaching, speaking, and writing about Islam. 

I thought I would be a political prisoner at 25 and dead by 30. 

I know people that have been abducted and tortured by foreign governments. 

But I consider myself blessed. 

Allah has shown me all of this pain, but kept me just far enough from it that it didn’t make me go crazy. 

As a result, I have strong opinions.

I could care less about more friends, approval from strangers on the internet, or impressing any of you.

I've always wanted freedom.

Now I build systems that allow me to be free using books and LinkedIn.

Occasionally, I help others do the same. 

If you need help telling your story, message me. 

Learn more here:

https://www.AuthorPreneurElite.com/2minvid

Raza Imam

Grey Monkey Group

The Grey Monkey Group uses evidence-based approaches, offering a unique combination of techniques that simultaneously teach high level emotional management, team communication, and influential leadership to inspire operational upgrades for the entire organization. 

This means engaged, happy and productive teams, greater retention and less absenteeism.

Grey Monkey Group provides a variety of training, coaching and development programs for both leadership and staff that creates connection, engagement, resolution, and fulfillment that improves your daily work environment while increasing the bottom line. 

Our passion is recognizable and the results undeniable. We have worked with a variety of different sized organizations to bring on measurable, sustainable change and palpable qualitative changes in the organizational culture. 

Below is a list of our focused expertise – if you don’t see what you’re looking for please reach out: Lisa@GreyMonkeyGroup.com

Services:
• Executive & leadership coaching
• Program design, training, materials & consultation
• Workshops, keynotes & facilitation
• Motivational Interviewing (person-centered approaches for behavior change)
• Relationship development  
• Empathetic communication
• Behavior change & emotional resolutions techniques (CORE Dynamics)
• Emotional Intelligence 
• The Five Behaviors®
• Conflict resolution
• Safe Conversations™ (Level 3 Leader) 
• Employee engagement
• Positive psychology & mindset management
• Resiliency, self-care & emotional competency
• Psychological Safety
• Qualitative & quantitative assessments (employee engagement, Everything DiSC®, etc.)

Communication Expert & Leadership Coach

UC San Diego Health

Working with The Lifesharing branch of UCSD Medical in multiple aspects as a program developer, trainer and director, communication consultant, executive and leadership coach. 

In 2021, I implemented a dual advanced communication skill program for leadership and staff. The program was specifically designed to run simultaneously, creating an impactful person-centered approach for both groups, both remote and onsite, with increased problem resolution skills that directly aided in approach techniques.

In 2022, we developed and launched a full-scale employee engagement program focused on the collection and analysis of organizational psychometric data as well as established and further facilitated an employee-lead engagement committee, using human-centered design to fulfill employee engagement initiatives and goals.

With the support of the LifeSharing team, we found conclusive data linking our employee engagement program with increased psychological safety, and improvements in trust, growth, appreciation, communication, inclusion, and overall employee engagement. In 2023, we submitted our results as an abstract for inclusion in the 16th Annual UC San Diego Health Innovations & Inquiry E-Conference, June 16th, 2023. 

• 3.3% employee engagement increase after only 8 months of implementation
• CEO rating of 4.7 out of 5
• Psychological safety ratings of 61% “very” or “extremely” comfortable sharing with leaders, & 75% “very” or “extremely” comfortable speaking up to colleagues

Consultant, Coach & Facilitator 

Love Yourself Fit

As a Mayo Clinic Certified Health & Wellness Coach, author, and over 20 years as an ACE certified personal trainer, I used values-based coaching, intrinsic motivation, and somatic approaches to work with individuals, groups, and businesses and help clients live healthfully and sustainably through wellness design, coaching, personal training and mindset change.  

-Corporate training (workshops & classes in mindset, fitness, self-care, sustainable habits, wellbeing, etc.)
-Individual personal training and program design
-Group facilitation and coaching (soft psychology, self-help, self-care, mindset change, yoga, +)
-Instructional design (physical, psychological, values-based change)
-Personal coaching
-Full spectrum of service business ownership, product promotion, and publication ("Love Yourself Fit") 
-Marketing including media relations, T.V., radio, podcast, video production & editing

Self-Care Expert, Coach & Author

Elan Pharmaceuticals

I had the opportunity to work with Elan Pharma, when it was still Dura Pharmaceuticals. There I was able to create and maintain the corporate fitness programs, including personal training, group exercise, yoga, and health workshops. A minor amount of on-site gym management was involved as well.

Additionally, I was invited to conduct a several workshops, one being a training course for Elan's sales team. Beyond the live trainings, on wellbeing and fitness on the road, I created an accompanying, illustrated manual, "Travel-fit@ Elan", that I published/printed in 2001.

Corporate Wellness & Fitness

I offer a truly unique combination of evidence-based approaches to help individuals and organizations to master the people part of leadership and culture.

The work world has changed, and with it the need to navigate remote workforces, build psychologically safe teams, and balance empathy with authority in a whole new way. 

This means developing the abilities and confidence for the changing professional environment. If you're in a leadership position, you may be finding you need a completely new set of skills to match this evolving workplace environment. Tools to:
• Kindly manage emotions
• Communicate effectively & empathetically
• Manage difficult conversations with grace
• Influence positive change in your people 
• Build a cohesive, efficient team

I utilize the most effective techniques in motivation and behavior change, applying over 25 years of work with individuals and groups in establishing new, values-based habits and creating sustainable results. I simplify the science of relational and emotional competencies to help my clients solve their team-troubles, and become engaged, productive, and harmonious work-families.

If you're ready to ditch the drama, feel confident in communication, or improve your organizational culture, please send me a direct message or email me at Lisa@GreyMonkeyGroup.com.

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