Dr. Madeline Weiss is President of Weiss Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in strategy and change, particularly related to information management and technology. Utilizing her experience of over 30 years in management, organization strategy and change, and information technology, she consults for business, government, universities, and professional organizations. She is Program Director of SIM's Advanced Practices Council and has been an officer of SIM. Madeline has been an RLF facilitator since 1994. She develops and conducts internal leadership programs for organizations as well.

Dr. George Brenckle has been in working in healthcare information techology for the past 29 years. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President and CIO of UMass Memorial Healthcare. In this role, he was responsible for all information services, telecommunications, and biomedical engineering support to the health system, and led the health system’s transformation from an organization that was primarily paper-based to one that is primarily electronic. In 2009, the Mass Technology Leadership Council recognized him as CIO of the Year. More recently, Computerworld Magazine included him as one of the Top 100 CIO’s nationally for 2013. Dr. Brenckle is married (33 years) and the father of three boys, aged from 26 to 21.

Mid-Atlantic RLF Additional Book Selections

The Art of Possibility
 

• Virtual meetings through May 2021.
• Speakers, presentations, materials and activities during six 2-day sessions and a 1-day session of the nine-month program.
• Inclusion in a national learning event for all 2021 RLF grads.
• All books and media used throughout the program.
• All breakfasts, lunches and refreshments.
• Individual SIM national membership for each graduate during 2022.