Diane Dixon

Diane Dixon is Managing Principal of D. Dixon & Associates LLC, an independent consulting practice specializing in healthcare leadership development and change management strategies. She has more than 25+ years of experience working with corporations and not-for-profit businesses of all sizes and complexity. Diane is also a faculty practitioner (adjunct) at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. She has taught Leadership and Organizational Behavior for the Business of Medicine Program.

Diane has written a regular leadership column targeted to long-term care physicians and other professionals in the field for Caring for the Ages, an official publication of the American Medical Directors Association. Her articles have also been published in Leadership Excellence, Personal Excellence, Hospitals and Health Networks E-Newsletter for Health Care Executives, and Health Progress. You can read her chapter on “Successfully Surviving Culture Change” in the book, Culture Change in Long -Term Care. Another chapter titled “Perspectives on Leading Complex Healthcare Delivery Systems” was published in the Business of Healthcare Book Series, Volume II by Praeger Perspectives.

Numerous presentations have been given to a wide variety of organizations and groups. Some topics have highlighted transformational leadership in health care delivery systems, leadership development for culture change in long-term care, leading and managing change in healthcare, managing transitions post mergers, acquisitions, and downsizing, strategies for developing effective leaders, building effective interdisciplinary teams, managing across multiple organizational boundaries, and the value of mentoring.

Diane holds a Doctorate in Education from the Executive Leadership in Human Resource Development Program at George Washington University (research focus-transformational leadership and hospital chief executives); a Master of Education degree with a concentration in Administration from Loyola College; and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Psychology from Howard University.


 

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