Senior Director, Talent, Leadership and Learning
Penn Medicine
Gretchen Kolb has served as the Senior Director, Talent, Leadership and Learning since 2023 providing leadership and strategic direction for the Penn Medicine’s talent management, leadership development, simulation and workforce development strategies, services and programs, impacting individual contributors, newly promoted supervisors to the highest level of leaders at Penn Medicine.
Prior to this she served the Director of Learning Innovation at Penn Medicine Academy from 2016, leading a team responsible for the coordinated application of learning strategies including online, mobile, virtual, microlearning, classroom and simulation, across the health system in support of Penn Medicine organizational and talent development goals.
Beginning in 2015 she was the Director of Simulation at Penn Medicine, responsible for overseeing all simulation activities, both unit-based as well as those taking place at the 22,000 square foot state-of-the-art Penn Medicine Clinical Simulation Center, where she began her simulation experience as Director of Operations in 2008. Under her leadership Penn Medicine Simulation was one of the first programs to receive accreditation by the International Society for Simulation in Healthcare.
Gretchen started her career at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 as the Director of Professional Medical Education for the Department of Surgery. She has a Master of Science in Genetic Counseling from the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and worked clinically as a certified pediatric and cancer genetic counselor from 1997 to 2008 at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Thomas Jefferson University Health System and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She obtained her Bachelors of Arts degree in Biology from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
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Transforming Leadership Development for Impact: Cultivating Future Leaders (89H)
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
3:15pm – 4:15pm CT