Dorothy Hart

I attribute my success to being flexible and being willing to change, adapt, and learn consistently. I empower other healthcare professionals with knowledge and confidence so they can perform their roles effectively and make meaningful contributions to their organizations. Through education and patience, I help people grow. I believe that if you believe in growing, you can achieve everything, because with growing, it takes implementation, dedication, commitment, and consistency. You have to empower yourself. I wouldn't be who I am today if it wasn't for God. My mission is to educate, to empower, and uplift others. I believe that influence is not about my position, it's about my impact.

The best career advice I've ever received is to never give up. Keep driving, keep pushing, and keep believing in yourself. If you quit, you never win. So, in order to win, you have to keep pushing. I remember Abraham Lincoln ran for president multiple times. He never made it, but if he had stopped running, he would have never became president. That stuck with me a lot. And then I think about something that President Barack Obama said to us when he made president. He reminded us all that, yes, we can. There's a scripture in the Bible that says, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. There's nothing impossible. All things are possible when you believe. That reminds me of Fantasia when she won American Idol, and her winning song was Believe, If You Believe.

I would strive to help that other woman grow professionally and personally by instilling in her some of the things that I've learned during my career, some of the things that helped me grow, some of the paths I've taken. I want her to understand that it's not gonna be easy. Life is not easy. You have to take the time and push at it. Your growth has no age limit to it. You never stop growing, and that's what I would encourage her to believe in herself. Every day, I'm continuing to evolve. Every day, I'm growing. So keep going at it. Because when we keep going at a thing, we get better at it. It's like when you go to the emergency room. When you go to the emergency room, you go there to get better. You go there to get stronger. You go there to get wiser. So you have to see the world as a place where you focus to get better. If it's not anything that's gonna make you wiser, better, or stronger, don't do it. All of those words, those action words, have ER at the end of it. So you have to see your life as an emergency room where you enter to get better, and you exit to be greater, and to be wiser, to be bolder.

The biggest challenge is just keeping up with the change, understanding change, and adapting to change. That's what a lot of people don't like to do, to adapt to change, because with Epic, at Epic University in Wisconsin, Judy Faulkner changes Epic every year. There's an upgrade every year. Educating yourself in order to be a viable candidate to stay employed, to keep getting contracts, to be able to help. But it's not really a challenge for me, it's excitement, because I love what I do. It helps me in areas of leadership. It helps me in areas where I need to influence. It helps me to train and mentor other professionals in the healthcare arena. It helps me to develop good training programs and curriculum. It helps me to improve my performance as well as the performance of others. Because at that stage, I'm continuing to support operational excellence.

The values that are important to me in my personal life and professional life are exemplifying excellence, loving myself enough to be the change that I want to see, and growth. I just think that if you believe in growing, you can achieve everything. Because with growing, it takes implementation, dedication, commitment, and consistency. And you have to empower yourself. So my values are loving yourself first, believing in yourself, and believing in what your career goal is. For me, it's never enough. So I influence myself, I influence through competition. My influence comes through mentorship. I don't have to be in the room with you to be influenced or mentored by you. If you got good materials out there, I'm gonna read. I'm gonna follow you. I'm gonna study what you got to say if it's empowering and it's encouraging. That's gonna help me develop my skills. It's gonna help me be more confident, and have more knowledge. And it's gonna allow me to grow professionally and personally. That way, I'm able to encourage someone else. I can't wait for it to be sent to me, I gotta reach out and go get it and grab it. And I'm inspired by helping others succeed and knowing that it's improving things within healthcare, personally, professionally, with others in their lives.