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The Leadership Playbook

Eight tracks. Over forty sessions. Built for the people who actually run behavioral health and human services organizations. Clinical readiness, supervisor skills, operations fluency, compliance, audit defense, talent development, employee lifecycle, and human potential.

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Daryan Wilkinson
Founder, The Wilkinson Firm
What this is

A structured development curriculum for clinical and operational leaders.

Most leadership training inside behavioral health is improvised. A supervisor gets promoted on Friday and is expected to lead a team on Monday with no framework, no language, and no institutional support. Turnover compounds. Clinical quality degrades. Compliance exposure widens.

The TWF Leadership Playbook is the opposite of improvised. Eight tracks. Sequenced sessions. Facilitated by sector specialists who have actually carried a clinical caseload, run a program, and sat across from an auditor.

Deployed as a full annual curriculum, a single track, or individual sessions inside an existing development program. Priced by track and by cohort size.

The curriculum

Eight tracks, forty-plus sessions.

01

Track 01: Clinical Readiness

For newly licensed clinicians stepping into agency practice

Bridge the gap between graduate training and operational clinical work. Documentation discipline, supervision dynamics, ethical boundaries, and billing alignment.

Sessions included
  • Documentation that survives audit
  • Supervision as professional development
  • Ethical boundaries in community-based care
  • Clinical notes and billing alignment
  • Building a caseload without burning out
02

Track 02: Supervisor Skills

For clinical supervisors and program managers

The translation layer from clinician to people manager. Feedback frameworks, performance conversations, delegation, and protecting clinical integrity under operational pressure.

Sessions included
  • Feedback that changes behavior
  • Performance conversations without defensiveness
  • Delegation for clinical leaders
  • Managing up and protecting your team
  • Supervision documentation and legal exposure
  • Conflict resolution inside clinical teams
03

Track 03: Operations Fluency

For program directors and emerging executives

Reading the business underneath the clinical work. Budgets, utilization, payer dynamics, and the operational levers that keep programs solvent.

Sessions included
  • Reading a program P and L
  • Utilization, authorization, and revenue cycle basics
  • Payer mix and what it means for staffing
  • Capacity planning for clinical programs
  • Building a business case for resources
04

Track 04: Compliance and Risk

For anyone signing their name to policy or documentation

HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, state licensure, and the documentation habits that keep individuals and organizations out of trouble.

Sessions included
  • HIPAA for people who actually touch records
  • 42 CFR Part 2 in practice
  • State licensure and scope of practice
  • Incident reporting and critical incident response
  • Mandated reporting inside clinical supervision
05

Track 05: Audit Defense

For compliance officers and clinical leadership

Preparing for CARF, JCAHO, payer, and state audits as a continuous operating discipline rather than a pre-audit scramble.

Sessions included
  • What auditors actually look for
  • Running an internal mock audit
  • Chart review as a management tool
  • Corrective action plans that hold up
  • Staff preparation and interview readiness
06

Track 06: Talent Development

For directors, HR partners, and executives who own headcount

Building pipelines instead of reacting to vacancies. Career pathing, internal mobility, succession, and the infrastructure that makes retention possible.

Sessions included
  • Career pathing for clinical roles
  • Internal mobility without losing clinical coverage
  • Succession planning for small organizations
  • Compensation conversations that retain
  • Identifying future leaders inside the clinical ranks
07

Track 07: Employee Lifecycle

For HR generalists, operators, and founder-leaders

From offer letter to exit interview. The HR operating cadence that keeps organizations legally clean and culturally intact.

Sessions included
  • Offer letters and onboarding mechanics
  • Ninety day integration and early warning signs
  • Corrective action and progressive discipline
  • Leave management and accommodation
  • Separation, severance, and clean exits
  • Exit interviews that actually feed improvement
08

Track 08: Human Potential

For professionals who want to grow beyond their current role

The skills the job description does not list. Executive presence, negotiation, communication, and the personal infrastructure that turns a good clinician into a sector leader.

Sessions included
  • Executive presence for clinical leaders
  • Negotiation for promotions, scope, and compensation
  • Written communication that moves decisions
  • Managing competing priorities across programs
  • Building a personal board of advisors
  • Career architecture in behavioral health
Delivery formats

Built to fit how your organization actually operates.

Full curriculum
Annual deployment

All eight tracks sequenced across twelve months. Cohort-based, facilitated live, with asynchronous reinforcement.

Single track
Focused cohort

One track delivered as a standalone cohort experience. Typical duration six to ten weeks.

Individual sessions
Plug in where needed

Specific sessions inserted into your existing leadership development or onboarding program.

Who this is for

Behavioral health and human services organizations that take development seriously.

Community mental health. Substance use disorder programs. Residential and outpatient providers. IDD and adult day programs. Child and family services. Supported employment. Crisis response.

Organizations between twenty and five hundred employees typically get the most leverage. Smaller organizations can access the Human Potential track on an individual basis.

Next step

Scope the right deployment for your organization.

Thirty minute consultation. We will map your current leadership bench, identify the highest leverage tracks, and quote a deployment that fits your budget and calendar.

Schedule a scoping call