Who:  O-6, O-6 selects who are on track for executive medicine

What:  Navy postgraduate school, Navy Senior Leadership Seminar (NSLS) – Virtual 25-29 August 2025

When:  25-29 August 2025 (Virtual) – only 1 seat for Medicine Corps

Where:  Navy Postgraduate School, Center of Executive Education – Monterey, California (Virtual)

Funding: Tuition is covered by NPS.

Process: A list of interested participants will be solicited through Corps leadership and returned to the Corps Chief’s Office for review and selection.  Interested applicants will submit a nomination via their Chain of Command for concurrence and awareness.

Course Description: Target audience are Captains and Captain Selects tracking for executive medicine. The Center for Executive Medicine (CEE) will handle the administrative planning portion once the participant list has been forwarded to CEE. NSLS provides senior officers with an intensive five-day executive education program that introduces the latest best practices in strategic planning, goal setting, strategic communication, effects-based thinking, risk management, financial management and innovation. The program is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills required to manage and lead effectively in complex organizations. The NSLS is designed for Navy Captains, high-potential Commanders, GS-15 equivalent civilians, and Fleet/Force Command Master Chiefs. Participants are nominated by their TYCOMs and community leadership.

Objective/Desired End State:

• To learn directly from senior Navy leaders the strategies, policies, and resource issues shaping the Navy’s strategy today and the business processes to achieve that strategy.

• To acquire knowledge that stimulates innovative thinking and provides leadership tools required to meet the challenges posed by senior leadership.

• To share expertise with peers in the course, and to learn from and become aware of the broad range of perspectives represented by peers in the Navy.

• To enhance participants’ individual strengths to support changes set by senior Navy leadership.

The NSLS-O is conducted via Zoomgov.com platform and NSLS-NPS (IN-RESIDENT) is held at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey. Requirements for NSLS-O include high-speed internet access, webcam, and microphone capability. Headphones are suggested but not required. Additionally, the use of a private/home computer during NSLS-O rather than an NMCI or other government computer has proven most effective. For more information about NSLS, please visit: https://nps.edu/web/cee/nsls

Course POC: NEDPRegistrar@nps.edu

Prospective applicants: Send a combined PDF with a CV and BIO to CAPT Shauna O’Sullivan NLT 1600 EST Monday, June 23, 2025.

Who: Senior Medical Officers (O-6, O-6 selects or high-performing O-5 officers who are on track for executive medicine have previously attended)

What: Joint Medical Executive Skills Institute (JMESI) – CAPSTONE for MHS Leaders Course

When: July 15-18, 2025 (Virtual – 8-9 seats allotted for Medical Corps)

Course Description:  The LEADS Capstone Course is a pinnacle educational event for senior leaders in the MHS. Each Navy Medicine Career Planner nominates senior grade officers, primarily in the grade of senior O6, to attend this course. Priority is given to new lead agents, commanders of larger facilities, command surgeons, and other senior medical department officers in key staff positions who will benefit from exposure to and familiarity with entities that shape the MHS. The course provides participants with exposure to the operations of the various organizations within the Department of Defense, pertinent congressional staffs, and the offices of the three Surgeons General. Participation in the Capstone Course will enhance the understanding of how national healthcare policies are formed, and by whom, and how they are implemented and put into operation.

With the smaller class size, direct interaction with policy makers and military health care leaders, and its joint audience the Capstone Course has come to provide firsthand, real world, applicable knowledge/information for the attendees to incorporate into their day-to-day and future work in the MHS.

Upon completion of the course the participants will:

• Have an enhanced understanding of MHS policymaking including how policies are disseminated and the legal basis for those policies.
• Gain a deeper sense of TRICARE issues and policies that shape the delivery of DOD health care.
• Become familiarized with information systems to support executive decision-making, as well as tools for evaluating quality assurance, customer satisfaction, and metrics.
• Opportunity to discuss issues of retention and recruitment from the military and national perspectives as well as financial and business matters as they relate to the MHS.
• Share networking opportunities to include, but not limited to the Surgeons General, members of other services serving in similar capacities, OSD leaders including Deputy Secretaries, the VA, civilian health program managers, and academia.
• Become familiar with unique ways of dealing with human relations and gain a better appreciation for the way they are perceived by others.
• Exchange ideas on current issues such as risk management, patient safety, Homeland Security, bioterrorism, war fighters (the line) and Reserve Forces.
• Gain an enhanced appreciation for transformation and fiscal issues within the DOD.

Additional details and objectives can be found here: Joint Medical Executive Skills Institute | Health.mil

Prospective applicants should send the following to CAPT O’Sullivan NLT 1600 EST, Wednesday, April 9, 2025.

1. An up-to-date CV and BIO (combined into one PDF)
2. An email with the following information (in the following order): Rank, Name, Current position, work address, work phone and email address