We send changed leaders into changed systems.
What it means to SixSEED?
Our name, SixSeed, is a phonetic of “succeed.” By “planting seeds” for each client, they are able to successfully develop on their own and ultimately “sprout, grow and thrive.” Our developmental services include assessments, workshops and coaching within each of our 6 service lines or seeds.
What is a SEED?
We address each client’s specific needs within our 6 service lines, or “seeds” to identify which package of seeds to include in their approach.
Click on each seed below to learn more:






Leadership Development
Imagine what could be possible if all of those leading others in your organization had capability for new ways of thinking and acting to navigate today’s complexity. We provide custom assessments and coaching engagements delivered by expert leaders, credentialed coaches and healthcare execs designed for:
- Physician and nurse leaders
- Clinical, research, and academic leaders
- Executives and emerging executives
- Technology leaders
You achieve measurable results through executive coaching and mentoring using validated assessment tools and pre- and post-measurement for leadership competencies, including:
- Executive presence and influence
- Emotional intelligence
- Conflict and Communication
- Leading change
- Leading teams
COACHING | ASSESSMENTS | WORKSHOPS
We apply time-tested techniques in a practical way that helps busy leaders grow skills and succeed in getting sustainable results.
System Integration
In healthcare’s changing landscape, systems are reorganizing and often merging in order to successfully continue serving their communities. Are you experiencing challenges related to:
- System Reorganization
- Alignment of Multi-hospital system
- Mergers and acquisitions
How can you honor and respect the best of each system while also forming a new identity and integrated system?
We partner with you using evidence-based assessments and collaborative consulting to measure system dynamics and achieve sustainable results focused on leveraging:
- Internal and external tensions
- Regional decision-making with a system lens
- Being consistent while adapting and innovating
- Financial objective and mission goals
- System and individual wellbeing
ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTING | ASSESSMENTS | WORKSHOPS
We guide a structured process that pragmatically transforms systems to operationally integrate while strategically succeeding in complexity.
Team Development
Picture your work and project teams being energized in meetings and working together more effectively. What if “silos” in your organization begin to work well collaboratively using their individual and collective strengths?
We provide team assessments and custom workshops to achieve measurable performance results focused on:
- Leveraging multiple perspectives and differences
- Effective and energizing team meetings
- Interprofessional collaboration
- Awareness of system integration
TEAM COACHING | ASSESSMENTS | WORKSHOPS
We facilitate validated methodologies in experiential processes helping busy teams learn and apply new skills in real-time applications.
Leadership Ecosystem Capacitation

This Leadership Ecosystem Capacitation (LEC) Model provides our differentiating framework for how we partner with you to increase the capacity of your leadership – at the individual, team, and system levels – to deepen the organization’s strategic, operational, and cultural capacity in a sustainable way.
Culture
Does your culture support your strategy? How do you know? How do your people create new ways of behaving and operating together? How do you continuously improve and measure their progress?
We partner with you on the “how” by using concrete, actionable, and measurable ways.
Our clients are clinical and technical experts who recognize that to succeed – individually and collectively – they also need to focus on culture as a key strategy in achieving their system’s strategic results.
We use comprehensive, healthcare-specific approaches to identify your culture’s current state and support you developing the new internal operating system needed to attain your strategic and long-term results, including:
- Workforce Engagement
- Attracting and Retaining Top Talent
- Creative and Adaptive Thinking Environments
- Brand and Reputation Management
We support you to authentically live your values to deliver on your organization’s brand and mission.
Well-Being
Data shows increasing rates of burnout and chronic illnesses in those who are providing care to others, leading to poor patient care and quality outcomes. The result is poor health for all. Well-Being is not just the lack of these conditions and getting to neutral. As Dr. Travis’ illness-wellness continuum shares, Well-Being is the mindset and competencies to define one’s healthy outcomes needed to feel energized, resilient, engaged and purposeful.
We partner with you using leading-edge assessments, leadership and health & wellness coaching to bring out the creator in your own Well-Being, focusing on:
- Resilience
- Reducing Burnout & Stress Management
- Increasing Engagement
- Leading Oneself Well
COACHING | ASSESSMENTS | WORKSHOPS
WSPH
You and your team take the time needed and make great effort to know your clients. To understand us is to more effectively be able to help us. You teach us new ways to problem-think and problem-solve.Exec VP, Service Lines, WSPH
My interactions with others have become more purposeful, more focused on the gaps between our current work and the outcomes that we are targeting to accomplish. We have seen improvements in several metrics and on team functioning to benefit the purpose of our work together through the organization.
CNO, UMMC
Chief Medical Officer, Datica
Senior VP, Nursing and Operations, UMMC
SEED Leadership Resources
Scaling Leadership
Collective Honoring of Progress and Harvesting of Thinking to continue driving change for Excellence and…
What Makes Us Different?
Organizations sometimes ask us what makes us different from any other coaching/ leadership & Organizational…
SEED Team Resources
What Makes Us Different?
Organizations sometimes ask us what makes us different from any other coaching/ leadership & Organizational…
Shifts Transforming Organizations
Joy W. Goldman RN, MS PCC: CEO SixSEED Partners McKinsey & Co published a report:…
SEED System Resources
SixSEED Partners New Year Message for 2024
Embracing Resilience AND Transformation As we step into 2024, we at SixSEED Partners extend our…
Developing Leaders As They Work
A Practical Application of Development in the Moment Joy W. Goldman RN, MS PCC: CEO…
SEED Leadership Ecosystem Resources
SixSEED Partners New Year Message for 2024
Embracing Resilience AND Transformation As we step into 2024, we at SixSEED Partners extend our…
Developing Leaders As They Work
A Practical Application of Development in the Moment Joy W. Goldman RN, MS PCC: CEO…
SEED Culture Resources
Supporting Clinical Peer Leaders
A Case for Courage and Compassion In Action Joy W. Goldman RN, MS PCC: Advisor:…
SixSEED Partners Message for Valentine’s Day
Adopt One Action that Demonstrates Loving Yourself “If you take good care of yourself, you…
SEED Well Being Resources
Supporting Clinical Peer Leaders
A Case for Courage and Compassion In Action Joy W. Goldman RN, MS PCC: Advisor:…
The Shift from Burnout to a Focus on Purpose and Well-Being
“Far from being out of touch, leaders who work to reconnect the health care workforce…
Leadership Development
Imagine what could be possible if all of those leading others in your organization had capability for new ways of thinking and acting to navigate today’s complexity. We provide custom assessments and coaching engagements delivered by expert leaders, credentialed coaches and healthcare execs designed for:
- Physician and nurse leaders
- Clinical, research, and academic leaders
- Executives and emerging executives
- Technology leaders
You achieve measurable results through executive coaching and mentoring using validated assessment tools and pre- and post-measurement for leadership competencies, including:
- Executive presence and influence
- Emotional intelligence
- Conflict and Communication
- Leading change
- Leading teams
COACHING | ASSESSMENTS | WORKSHOPS
We apply time-tested techniques in a practical way that helps busy leaders grow skills and succeed in getting sustainable results.
I see our leaders working with more confidence, while simultaneously trying to stretch themselves. I think the investment in their skills and futures has also bonded to the organization as I see positivity in areas not seen before. They are getting above the “in the weeds” work and contemplating how to work better through, not around, people.
CEO,
WSPH
Scaling Leadership
Collective Honoring of Progress and Harvesting of Thinking to continue driving change for Excellence and…
What Makes Us Different?
Organizations sometimes ask us what makes us different from any other coaching/ leadership & Organizational…
System Integration
In healthcare’s changing landscape, systems are reorganizing and often merging in order to successfully continue serving their communities. Are you experiencing challenges related to:
- System Reorganization
- Alignment of Multi-hospital system
- Mergers and acquisitions
How can you honor and respect the best of each system while also forming a new identity and integrated system?
We partner with you using evidence-based assessments and collaborative consulting to measure system dynamics and achieve sustainable results focused on leveraging:
- Internal and external tensions
- Regional decision-making with a system lens
- Being consistent while adapting and innovating
- Financial objective and mission goals
- System and individual wellbeing
ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTING | ASSESSMENTS | WORKSHOPS
We guide a structured process that pragmatically transforms systems to operationally integrate while strategically succeeding in complexity.
My interactions with others have become more purposeful, more focused on the gaps between our current work and the outcomes that we are targeting to accomplish. We have seen improvements in several metrics and on team functioning to benefit the purpose of our work together through the organization.
CEO, Winchester Medical Center
SixSEED Partners New Year Message for 2024
Embracing Resilience AND Transformation As we step into 2024, we at SixSEED Partners extend our…
Developing Leaders As They Work
A Practical Application of Development in the Moment Joy W. Goldman RN, MS PCC: CEO…
Leadership Ecosystem Capacitation

This Leadership Ecosystem Capacitation (LEC) Model provides our differentiating framework for how we partner with you to increase the capacity of your leadership – at the individual, team, and system levels – to deepen the organization’s strategic, operational, and cultural capacity in a sustainable way.
From my perspective, this engagement was well worth the investment. I’ve seen a sustainable, positive change in our leader’s executive presence and ability to collaborate and engage others. I also felt support from you, in addition to your working with our leader.
CNO, UMMC
Shifts Transforming Organizations
Joy W. Goldman RN, MS PCC: CEO SixSEED Partners McKinsey & Co published a report:…
Moral Injury: HealthCare’s Public Health Crisis
A Systemic Lens Perspective Joy W. Goldman RN, MS PCC: CEO SixSEED Partners Background: …
Culture
Does your culture support your strategy? How do you know? How do your people create new ways of behaving and operating together? How do you continuously improve and measure their progress?
We partner with you on the “how” by using concrete, actionable, and measurable ways.
Our clients are clinical and technical experts who recognize that to succeed – individually and collectively – they also need to focus on culture as a key strategy in achieving their system’s strategic results.
We use comprehensive, healthcare-specific approaches to identify your culture’s current state and support you developing the new internal operating system needed to attain your strategic and long-term results, including:
- Workforce Engagement
- Attracting and Retaining Top Talent
- Creative and Adaptive Thinking Environments
- Brand and Reputation Management
We support you to authentically live your values to deliver on your organization’s brand and mission.
We knew culture was important in building a great company. We also knew that we needed proven methods to measure and manage culture – a solid approach that would justify the investment of time and dollars which are so precious in a startup. We turned to SixSEED based on their experience and success using evidence-based approaches. They partnered with us to develop and deliver a multifaceted culture building approach that was embraced at all levels of our company and has paid real dividends in terms of satisfaction and performance.
Chief Medical Officer, Datica
Supporting Clinical Peer Leaders
A Case for Courage and Compassion In Action Joy W. Goldman RN, MS PCC: Advisor:…
SixSEED Partners Message for Valentine’s Day
Adopt One Action that Demonstrates Loving Yourself “If you take good care of yourself, you…
Well-Being
Data shows increasing rates of burnout and chronic illnesses in those who are providing care to others, leading to poor patient care and quality outcomes. The result is poor health for all. Well-Being is not just the lack of these conditions and getting to neutral. As Dr. Travis’ illness-wellness continuum shares, Well-Being is the mindset and competencies to define one’s healthy outcomes needed to feel energized, resilient, engaged and purposeful.
We partner with you using leading-edge assessments, leadership and health & wellness coaching to bring out the creator in your own Well-Being, focusing on:
- Resilience
- Reducing Burnout & Stress Management
- Increasing Engagement
- Leading Oneself Well
COACHING | ASSESSMENTS | WORKSHOPS
I found the coaching to be real and practical. I trusted that if I put in the effort and was open, I would emerge as a stronger leader and better human being. On a real physical level, I would often experience nausea in my gut, and that has totally disappeared. I also appreciated my ability to scale leadership and integrate my direct reports in the learning. I’ve enjoyed cascading responsibility to them and engaging them in coaching conversations that inspire them to greater capacity.
Senior VP, Nursing and Operations, UMMC
Supporting Clinical Peer Leaders
A Case for Courage and Compassion In Action Joy W. Goldman RN, MS PCC: Advisor:…
The Shift from Burnout to a Focus on Purpose and Well-Being
“Far from being out of touch, leaders who work to reconnect the health care workforce…
Team Development
Picture your work and project teams being energized in meetings and working together more effectively. What if “silos” in your organization begin to work well collaboratively using their individual and collective strengths?
We provide team assessments and custom workshops to achieve measurable performance results focused on:
- Leveraging multiple perspectives and differences
- Effective and energizing team meetings
- Interprofessional collaboration
- Awareness of system integration
TEAM COACHING | ASSESSMENTS | WORKSHOPS
We facilitate validated methodologies in experiential processes helping busy teams learn and apply new skills in real-time applications.
You and your team take the time needed and make great effort to know your clients. To understand us is to more effectively be able to help us. You teach us new ways to problem-think and problem-solve.
Exec VP, Service Lines, WSPH
Building Team Norms to Sustain Team Effectiveness
Petra Platzer, PhD NBC-HWC, PCC: CEO SixSEED Partners Background SixSEED Partners concluded a year-long Team…
Scaling Leadership
Collective Honoring of Progress and Harvesting of Thinking to continue driving change for Excellence and…
Our Process
Through our 4-step interactive process, we integrate traditional skill building with vertical development approaches to provide successful and sustainable solutions for both immediate and long-term results. Our developmental services include assessments, workshops and coaching within each of our 6 service lines are our “seeds.”






Let us help guide your healthcare leaders, teams and systems to succeed.
We guide forward-thinking healthcare leaders, teams, and systems to create sustainable, transformational change.
As proven healthcare leaders, physicians, and executive coaches, we leverage our deep and broad functional experiences in the healthcare industry to drive developmental change efforts for leaders, teams, and entire organizations. Our integrated delivery team helps you increase the capacity of your leaders and teams so your healthcare system can navigate complexity more effectively.
Increasing capacity is at the core of true transformation. At SixSEED Partners, our believe is when we integrate design, adult learning, and coaching principles into our work, we conserve energy while achieving sustainable results. Our approach includes meeting you and your leaders precisely where you are and providing customized, integrated solutions for you to succeed and thrive.