Transforming Healthcare Leadership from the Inside Out

Healthcare today faces relentless pressure: financial constraints, workforce burnout, cultural misalignment, and the constant demand to do more with less. At Let’s Lead, we believe sustainable change doesn’t come from another top-down initiative or one-size-fits-all plan. It comes from leaders and teams working differently—together.

Let’s Lead was created by Dr. Elisabeth Fontaine and Jill Berry Bowen, RN, two seasoned healthcare leaders who have lived the challenges you face every day. Between us, we bring decades of experience as a hospital CEO, physician leader, and healthcare system innovator. We’ve felt the strain of burnout, the weight of cultural misalignment, the pressures to achieve results, and the urgency of succession planning—and we’ve led organizations through it.

Now, we partner with executives, clinicians, and leadership teams building bold goals and achieving results that seemed impossible to:

  • Rebuild trust and alignment across executive and clinical leadership.

  • Reduce burnout and turnover, which cost healthcare organizations millions annually.

  • Develop leaders from within, equipping teams to co-create sustainable solutions.

  • Deliver measurable results in retention, engagement, patient satisfaction and bottom line performance metrics.

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Why Leaders Choose Let’s Lead

Unlike traditional consultants who arrive with a pre-packaged answer, we enter as your thinking partners and co-coaches. Our process is intentionally adaptive, designed around your team, your goals, and your culture.

The result? Ownership of solutions that last, because they were built from the inside out.

  • “I highly recommend Let's Lead as leadership and team coaches. With their own vast experience in healthcare leadership, they know the right questions to ask and the best ways to receive and impart information. An excellent resource for so many people to advance their thinking and impact!"

    ~ E. Whalen, RN, Hospital CEO

  • “Confidence to have tough conversations and provide feedback directly, reestablishing trust”

    ~Collective from Team Members

  • “Team Coaching with Let’s Lead enabled me to learn a lot more about other leaders, to appreciate them, and how to best communicate and partner with them. It propelled us as leaders to focus in a new way on a team-developed single goal/vision. We held each other accountable to walk the walk and do our parts for the greater good.”

    ~Dr. Keith S, M.D., Hospital CMO

  • “As a Director of Nursing, Team Coaching with Let’s Lead focused our work on a big audacious goal and months later we are doing alright here and continue the work to sustain this focus. Trust in our relationships continue to grow throughout the system.”

    ~Tammy B., RN, Hospital Director of Nursing

  • "The method of pairing team coaching with individual coaching simultaneously was an innovative and progressive approach. We were able to refine our individual skills and then apply our newly learned skills to benefit the entire team.”

    ~Michael P., Hospital CEO

Meet Your Team Transformation Coaches

Dr. Elisabeth Fontaine, M.D., ABOG, Dip ABLM, FACLM, ACC

An innovative and visionary leader dedicated to the greater good, Dr. Elisabeth Fontaine is an Obstetrician/Gynecologist, Diplomate of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine, Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and former Fellow of Duke University’s Leadership Program in Integrative Healthcare.

As an ICF-certified Leadership and Team Coach, Dr. Fontaine partners with physicians, clinicians, and emerging leaders to help them discover their authentic leadership potential and bring their full selves to work and life. She is known as a trusted listening partner who supports healthcare professionals in reconnecting with their purpose, strengthening collaboration, and leading with intention and compassion.

At Let’s Lead, Dr. Fontaine fosters a culture of curiosity and courage—where individuals and teams gain clarity, focus, and alignment around a shared vision for collective success and better outcomes for the communities they serve.

Jill Berry Bowen, RN, MSN, MBA, PCC, FACHE

A seasoned healthcare executive and leadership coach, Jill Berry Bowen brings more than 30 years of experience as a hospital CNO, COO, and CEO. Throughout her career, she has led and coached executive and clinical teams through transformation, growth, and organizational change.

An ICF-certified Leadership Coach and Team Coach, and graduate of the Teleos Leadership Institute for Coaching, Jill now partners with leaders and teams on succession and transition planning, leadership development, board relations, and strengthening physician–C-suite partnerships.

Known for her presence, curiosity, and deep commitment to the greater good, Jill specializes in executive resilience, change management, and building cultures of engagement and trust. A Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, she continues to mentor rising leaders nationwide who are shaping the future of healthcare.

As co-coaches for Let’s Lead, Elisabeth Fontaine and Jill Berry Bowen ensure that the future of healthcare is shaped not by exhaustion and turnover, but by leaders who are courageous, collaborative, and well. Because when leaders thrive, so do their organizations and the communities they serve.

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Frequently Asked Questions

We don’t hand you a pre-packaged plan. We meet you and the team where you are at. Our process is collaborative, adaptive, and designed for your specific culture—so your team owns the solutions and sustains them long after we’re gone.

What makes Let’s Lead different from traditional consultants?

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Both founders have decades of experience leading healthcare systems as a hospital CEO and physician leader. We’ve been in your shoes, and we bring that lived experience plus advanced coaching credentials. Our nimbleness and presence on this journey is our strength.

Why should I trust two individuals over a larger consulting firm?

2

Is this really for executives at my level?

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Yes. We specialize in working with high-ranking leaders and clinical executives. Our coaching process addresses systemic challenges like operational effectiveness by transforming the leadership necessary to move your system to a different level.

What results can we realistically expect?

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Clients typically see improvements in executive and clinician retention, staff engagement, alignment across leadership teams, and patient satisfaction—all of which reduce costs, impacting the bottom line and strengthening your reputation.

Still have questions? Let’s talk.