Please Go Through Everything Before Your Session

When we talk, I will be getting a brief rundown of the situation. This will include who you are, how you communicate best, how you typically solve problems, and your goals. This will allow you to see if you connect with me as a coach. It also will allow me to ensure that I can help you in the described situation. There are some conflicts that need parallel action. For example, if you have legal action pending or if a university or organizational process has been started (for example formal concerns, privacy breeches etc.).
I can support in various ways depending on the situation and we will discuss this to ensure that you wish to proceed with my coaching. My genuine goal with this support is to help you get back to medicine, and to support your learning of the conflict conciliation process that took me multiple years of additional training to understand! When conflict is better understood, it can be turned into opportunity every time you encounter it!

About Dr. B
“In a World Where you Can be Anything…Be Kind”

I am a passionate physician who has worked tirelessly on the front lines caring for patients since 2000. Throughout my career, I have seen changes that have resulted in physicians being unprepared for the organizational and political expectations. These health system changes have seemed to degraded physician autonomy and have negatively impacted our outlook. Health system culture changes and operational pressures have forced physicians to alter how they are practicing medicine, ultimately impacting our ability to focus on patient care. I have concerns regarding the sustainability of the profession and want to help.

My mission is to always be involved in supporting growth for practitioners, to allow us to “get back to medicine”, and to support the same for myself and those around me.

Having been through conflict myself in my medical career, I have experienced too many situations in which little attention was paid to consistency and process. A lack of process and transparency can lead to the perception of unsatisfactory outcomes for many practitioners when facing conflict. Seeing this lack of process firsthand drove me into leadership, hoping to impact change and to support physicians facing issues in their practices.

The formal leadership journey that I embarked upon started in 2014 and ended up in my leading a team of 350 physicians through Covid pandemic as a medical director. During the Covid pandemic, it became apparent that conflict for practitioners and their teams was at an all-time high, and little resource was available to support these physicians. Physicians were losing sleep, sacrificing personal relationships, and removing themselves from their workplaces due to a lack of capacity to achieve satisfactory resolution to conflict. I spent 100s of hours coaching colleagues and teams during this time, but still saw a lack of process in the system to deal with physicians’ issues.  

It was clear to me in my coaching that physicians are not trained adequately to handle conflict, leadership, or equity and inclusion, unless they pursue additional training on their own.  I undertook over 3 years of intense education in these areas to become a respected advocate and teacher in conflict, mediation, and equity, diversity and inclusion. As society entered summer 2022, and the new generation of the pandemic met us, I made a goal to ensure that practitioners have the skills to create professional success out of conflict. These skills can support practitioners to love their careers once again by freeing time to focus on the field of medicine that they strove so hard to enter.

Outside of medicine, I am a very spiritual person. This to me means being connected, mostly to our planet and being outside. I spend most of my time off with my 2 yellow Labrador puppies, my 3 adult sons (who all have grown up and left me in an empty nest) and looking at the crystal waters from my paddleboard.

One of my proudest moments was starting a fundraiser with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada for my next-door neighbor who had leukemia. I had zero skills or confidence in fundraising. I motivated 10 people to join me, and we broke a Canadian record for most funds raised in a non-corporate event. I raised over $80,000 myself, and the team brought over $120,000 to the cause. I still have purple hair, as it is the colour of the society, and it reminds me that we can do anything if we have enough will and faith in ourselves.

I remember one of my favorite colleagues said this to me when I first entered the physician leadership world. I still hold onto this notion today.

Dr. Brisebois is a certified Wellness and Executive Coach (with specialization in healthcare in process), a General Internal Medicine and Palliative Medicine Specialist, as well as having extensive training in conflict, negotiation, mediation, equity, diversity and inclusion. She has served as the Medical Director for a large 360 bed hospital, the Medical Director of the Covenant Palliative Care Institute, as well as an Associate Chief Medical Officer of Covenant Health. She is completing her Masters of International Health Leadership through McGill University and has trained at multiple world renowned organizations including the Mayo Clinic, Berkeley, Oxford, UBC, London School of Economics, Queen’s University (Canada) and the Justice Institute of British Columbia. Her leadership specialty is helping practitioners and teams find success through conflict, and learn from these successes to create happier, more efficient, and more effective healthcare teams. She has spoken at many international events, and she is a published author in her fields of expertise.