Petra Platzer, PhD NBC-HWC, PCC: CEO SixSEED Partners
Background
At SixSEED Partners, we practice what we teach. Just as we encourage our clients to pause from the daily demands of healthcare leadership, our team took time for strategic reflection, renewal, and connection—together.
Last week, we “walked our talk” at the Kayser Ridge Retreat & Learning Center, a haven for reflection and learning near Berkeley Springs, WV—built by one of our founders, Cliff Kayser. In this restorative setting, we stepped back from the pace of delivery to focus on what sustains us: our mission, our relationships, and our own well-being.
Our Approach
Recognizing that 2025 has been a year of internal restructuring and external refocusing, we designed our retreat around four key polarities:
• Taking Care of Each of Us & Taking Care of SixSEED
• Looking Back to Learn & Looking Forward to Grow
• Relating & Achieving
• Head (Thinking) & Body (Being)
Drawing on our CEO’s deep understanding of SixSEED’s evolution since our founding in 2018, the team reflected on how we’ve continually adapted – supporting healthcare leaders through pre- and post-COVID while evolving ourselves to meet new needs.
Building on this foundation, our CEO introduced The Big 5 of Strategy®, a framework she’s currently certifying in, to guide the team’s growth and alignment. Beginning with the first competency, “Grasp the Present,” we explored our various strengths and challenges – each of ours, those of SixSEED Partners, and those of our clients and the broader healthcare landscape. From there, we moved into the second competency – “Shape the Future” – to identify our next action steps and levers in 2026 to most effectively advance our mission: to provide integrated solutions that heal healthcare.
Our Results
Guided by these reflections, we reviewed our current, past, and prospective clients – along with our six “Seeds” of service offerings – and surfaced a clear, energizing theme for 2026: Client Access.
Just as healthcare focuses on Patient Access, we’re committed to making it easier for leaders and teams to access the development and partnership they need from us. As their workforce and strategies evolve, so will the ways we help them integrate tools that strengthen operational excellence and well-being.
We left the retreat with renewed momentum around new framings for our proven methodologies that we’ll be refining and testing with our trusted circle of colleagues and clients. We also walked away with something equally vital: a strengthened sense of connection and the energy that comes from truly teaming together in service of our shared mission.
Looking Ahead
Moving into 2026, we’re excited to translate these insights into action to make it easier for healthcare leaders to access and integrate solutions that help them – and their teams – thrive. We look forward to continuing this shared journey of healing healthcare from the inside out- together.
To learn more about doing this kind of work to support and elevate your team to the next level, contact SixSEED Partners today.
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