Beyond Leadership: a Cleveland Clinic Podcast

Beyond Leadership: a Cleveland Clinic Podcast


To Know Thyself - Chief of Staff Beri Ridgeway MD

June 22, 2021

SERIES: Inspiring Others | Driving Results – In her meteoric rise, Chief of Staff Beri Ridgeway, MD, jests that she could write a book about her mistakes. Through this fast paced leadership journey she has learned the value of self-reflection and shares, "To be an effective leader, one really has to know herself." She reports it provided grace with herself and in doing that, it allowed her to extend it to others resulting in the best outcomes (which is not how she expected things to happen). And by living in the moment she tries to make the best decisions that she can with the data that she has, knowing that she'll reevaluate that decision and iterate. Hear more from the first woman to be chief of staff at Cleveland Clinic.