Interested in conducting a Boundary Spanning Leadership workshop with ASTHO? Here’s what previous participants had to say about their experience.
"The project team spanned vertical, horizontal, demographic, and geographic boundaries (across islands) to launch a new, 'e-enabled' federal grants planning and set-up process. Interagency collaboration fueled better understanding of internal customer needs, process standardization, and visibility across agencies."
—Kristin Sullivan, ASTHO's director of public health systems and infrastructure, on developing "one vision" for business process improvement work in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
"The Boundary Spanning Leadership course truly allowed us to expand Nevada’s Strategy to Repair Equity and Transform Community Health (STRETCH) initiative. We reached out statewide to better understand community members in the more diverse Clark County (Las Vegas) area. In turn, we have started forging common ground—and laying out important differences—with partners who also want to reduce health disparities. We have improved relationships with current partners and brought new partners together to try to braid funding for mutual connectiveness, trust, and to discover new frontiers."
—Godwin O. Nwando, MPH, Health Equity Manager, Nevada Department of Health and Human Services
Staff from the Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services shared the feedback below after ASTHO's BSL workshop with the agency.
- "Our participation in this BSL training will help our organization give the best resources to our island community in an effective and timely manner."
- "This training helped us get inputs from the other agencies and see, from their perspective, the challenges that they are facing in their department."
- "The BSL workshop led us to define boundaries within [our agency] and manage them by working with the other sections."
- "This training assisted with opening communication with other agencies, most especially with support and assistance from the governor of Guam."