“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” – Maya Angelou In my first consulting job following graduation I had the opportunity to work with a committed and values-based team focused on changing the lives of thousands ofContinue reading “Encourage the Heart”
Author Archives: Erik Angus
Road Warrior Life in a Pandemic
My current professional role as a learning consultant with Cerner Corporation has me in a 100% travel role where I have the opportunity to interact with thousands of different people across the world — and pull in some great Hilton Honors, Delta Airlines, and AVIS travel points. However, my travel schedule suddenly stopped in MarchContinue reading “Road Warrior Life in a Pandemic”
A Pandemic Driven Book Club
In early March, life turned upside down for myself and countless people around the world as the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep the country at an unprecedented rate and the majority of the world turned to a new lifestyle of working from home. While navigating this transition, I found myself with more time than IContinue reading “A Pandemic Driven Book Club”
My virtual keynote speech
Not everyday do I get the opportunity to articulate my thoughts and beliefs to a group of rising and current leaders. I had just this opportunity on the evening of October 3rd, when I was asked to deliver a keynote speech for the SigEp Balanced Man Scholarship Banquet for the SigEp chapter at Wright StateContinue reading “My virtual keynote speech”
Life Lessons From My Wedding
“People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.” – Dr. Suess On September 5th, 2020, I married my best friend. While our wedding day was nothing like what we had imagined when I proposed in the fall of 2019, we could notContinue reading “Life Lessons From My Wedding”
Population Health & Information Technology
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the need to overhaul how the world connects people with their healthcare now more than ever before. This summer I had the opportunity to take a course on Population Health. My final project challenged me to create my own online module about population health and information technology. Take a crashContinue reading “Population Health & Information Technology”
Information Technology & Business Strategy
Across a span of seven weeks I completed an MBA class on information technology and business strategy that involved the reading of nearly 1,000 pages of business theory and case studies, analyzing these ideas with a six-person team, and creating of over 100 pages of reflection. My final case study involved reflecting on the threeContinue reading “Information Technology & Business Strategy”
Global Health + Technology Adoption
Global health is the practice of sharing ideas across borders in the pursuit of collaborating to improve health and health equity across the world. This field can oftentimes be confused with international health and public health, which is why it is important to analyze technologies and innovations with the five global health indicators to understandContinue reading “Global Health + Technology Adoption”
Health Systems & mHealth
In the spring of 2020, I began my graduate school education by taking a course titled Global Health Technology & Innovation. In this course I have had the opportunity to learn about the basics of how global health operates, the ethical, political, and financial implications in healthcare, and the life changing technologies and innovations implemented.Continue reading “Health Systems & mHealth”
Looking Forward to Year 26
With my 25th year in the rearview mirror, I look toward year 26 with hope and excitement, another year set for challenge and opportunity. As I outline my goals for the year, I’ll be referencing back to my goal framework where I explore creating values, setting Big Hairy Audacious Goals, utilizing goal evolution, and buildingContinue reading “Looking Forward to Year 26”
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