Navigating Challenges for Physicians (3 months)
Physician Career Clarity & Transition (Three months) Six 60-minute sessions · Twice monthly For physicians facing a pressing professional or personal crossroads who need a confidential, structured place to gain clarity and take purposeful next steps. This may be a good fit if you are: • Feeling depleted, stuck, uncertain, or disconnected from your work • Considering a job change, specialty change, new practice setting, leadership role, reduced schedule, leave of absence, or nonclinical direction • Navigating a difficult workplace relationship, loss of confidence, imposter thoughts, conflict, or a mismatch between your values and your work environment • Managing an illness, disability, caregiving role, relationship change, family pressure, relocation, or another life event affecting your career decisions or work-life balance • Preparing for an imminent decision and needing perspective before acting • Seeking support to regain direction, agency, and a sustainable plan without having to solve everything at once Includes: • Six private 60-minute coaching sessions over three months • A clear coaching agreement and outcome-focused starting conversation • Tailored reflection questions, practical challenges, and accountability between sessions • Email check-ins for brief reflection, accountability, and scheduling • A final integration session to identify what has shifted and what comes next
What's included
My coaching style is warm, practical, and collaborative. I provide a confidential, nonjudgmental space for physicians to reflect honestly, clarify what matters most, and navigate career and life challenges with greater intention. You are resourceful and whole. I am empathetic and informed by experience and curiosity. Rather than prescribing answers, I use deep listening, thoughtful questions, and physician-specific insight to help you recognize your strengths, identify meaningful choices, and take realistic next steps. We address the whole person—career, health, relationships, family, identity, and purpose—while keeping the work grounded in your real-world circumstances.
- Clarity, direction, and an action plan informed by your own strengths and values
Meet your expert
Lance W.
Physician Coach for fulfillment & well-being at all career stages
For more than three decades, medicine has been central to my life. As an anesthesiologist, physician leader, department chair, and medical educator, I experienced both the privilege of caring for patients and the demanding realities physicians experience every day. Throughout my career, I have worked alongside and supported physicians at many stages—from trainees finding their footing to experienced clinicians considering what comes next. I have seen the pride, purpose, and deep commitment that bring people to medicine. I have also seen how chronic stress, changing systems, difficult transitions, illness, competing responsibilities, and isolation can gradually distance physicians from the work and lives they once envisioned. My commitment to physician well-being deepened after witnessing the serious consequences of stress and substance use among colleagues. Later, personal health challenges redirected my own path away from clinical practice. That experience strengthened my appreciation for the importance of reflection, support, and intentionally shaping a meaningful next chapter. Today, I bring my clinical and organizational experience to advocacy, organized medicine, physician well-being, and professional coaching. My work is grounded in respect for the complexity of physicians’ lives and in the belief that a fulfilling career is not merely about enduring medicine—it is about creating a professional life that is sustainable, purposeful, and aligned with what matters most. From residency through retirement, I help physicians reconnect with what matters and move forward with greater clarity, resilience, and intention.
