Eileen Xu

I attribute my success to my parents, because I value them so much, and to my family right now, who are very supportive with me in terms of my career and my advancement in education. I even want to push now to advance my education into a judicial kind of being a lawyer in healthcare, and I'm hoping that my family, which is my immediate husband and two kids, will support me on this. I also attribute everything to God, because without Him, I cannot do anything in my own work. I know in my faith, He'll always be there with me, He'll always guide me as long as I am there asking to Him and asking for guidance from Him. Giving back to the community is what God wanted me to be, and that's why I engage myself even though I'm abusing my schedule. I still have time to do catechism, because I know at the end of the day, I am nothing without Him.

The advice most of the time that people give me is that I'm such a detailed person, so quality and regulatory is really a good fit for me. But they also see that I'm a businesswoman in the sense that my head is always thinking about how I can make things cost efficient and how I can deliver quality and safe care while still maintaining cost efficiency. People also say I'm a very well-rounded person, and that I never say no to anything - I will figure it out. I always have Plan A and Plan B, as they say. I will never leave any person hanging when they come to me for help, so I always have something for them and navigate it through if I don't have the answer and find out the resources. People say I'm a very resourceful person, because I believe there's always an answer to anything, you just have to find it.

First and foremost, I would like young women to really take care of the confidence that they need to have, because in every aspect of life, there are different challenges - it can be hardships at minimum, medium, or higher levels of struggles. But I want them to have that confidence that no one can give it to them - they need to develop that confidence themselves. Continue to learn. Not because you don't know something, you have to stop there. Always expand that ability to learn, expand those resources that are available left and right, and ensure that you're not alone in every journey that you're taking. There will always be a resource, there's always available support in terms of society and leaders that are really experts in certain areas that they want to take on. Especially in healthcare, we have a lot of mentors, and one of my specialties is to mentor anyone. Currently I'm also a mentor of Grand Canyon University students at the master's level, and I'm also teaching international PhD level students that are really advancing their education and leadership. So do not hesitate to come to me, because I always promote that, because mentorship is really a passion that I have.

The biggest challenge is politics at work and politics in every aspect, which is always present. I am not strong with doing politics, because I always do the best I can, and I want people to see what I can contribute and what I can do. I just hope that every organization has that opportunity to really leverage the strength of those individuals and their development. I will promote my friends and colleagues, you know what I mean? So that is the challenge that I have right now, to be honest.

The values that are most important to me are the ones taught by my parents - integrity and honesty, even when nobody is watching. I can make the data look very good, but I always think about what if that is my family member out there in the hospital, in that sickbed, and the data needs to really portray or reflect the truth. Even if I'm working from home sometimes, I always do more than even working in the hospital, because I don't want them to feel that I'm just relaxing - I would rather have more output because I'm working from home. In the hospital, I work in the office, and the time is given, but when working from home, it reflects my high integrity, that I need to really provide more output and even extend my time to the best of my ability, just to complete the work that I need to finish, or even do something above and beyond.