Episode 178: Be a Gardener, Not a Hero with Lee Angus

Healthcare Leadership Excellence · Feb 23, 2026 · 39m

In this episode, I sit down with Lee Angus, President of Medi Leadership, a firm that has spent the last 25 years coaching healthcare executives in one of the most complex leadership environments in the world.

Lee’s journey is not a straight line. With a master’s in accountancy from Brigham Young University, he began at Deloitte auditing and implementing SAP systems, watching firsthand how leaders either created the conditions for integration or sabotaged it. He saw something early in his career that has stayed with him ever since: you can build the best system in the world, but if leaders…