Passage to Physician Development & Fulfillment Program (6 months)
6 months · 12 private coaching sessions · Twice monthly A comprehensive coaching partnership for physicians who want to build a more sustainable, meaningful, and value-aligned professional life. This is not simply about addressing an immediate situation. Your journey includes: • A complimentary exploratory conversation • A clear coaching agreement, and welcome process • A deeper discovery process exploring your values, strengths, professional identity, current career landscape, intentions, and vision for the future • A personalized coaching plan that evolves with you over the engagement • Twelve 60-minute coaching sessions, generally scheduled twice a month over six months • A confidential space to work on career fulfillment, resilience, growth, confidence, communication, boundaries, relationships, leadership, career transition, role redesign, retirement, and legacy • Attention to how your professional life intersects with health, family, caregiving, relationships, finances, identity, energy, community, and purpose beyond medicine • Physician-specific coaching tools and reflective practices, selected to support fulfillment, career resilience, personal growth, and effective use of your strengths • Custom exercises and value-aligned action between sessions—designed for your individual circumstances • A midpoint milestone check-in to recognize progress, adjust goals, and deepen the work • A summation session and next-chapter plan to help you sustain what you have learned and continue moving forward • Email support between sessions for brief reflection, accountability, and scheduling Best for: Physicians seeking a sustained, thoughtful investment in career fulfillment from residency to retirement, resilience, professional development, and the next meaningful chapter of work and life.
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. Coaching is not the same as mentoring, consulting, advising, or therapy. 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.
- A personalized and transformative coaching plan tailored to your evolving professional and personal goals.
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.
