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AmpedUp Field Notes Podcast

AmpedUp Field Notes Podcast

By: Anne-Marie Parent
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 AmpedUp Field Notes Podcast explores what leadership requires in complex human systems, with a particular focus on health care.
Health systems are not machines to be optimized. They are living, relational systems shaped by people, power, history, and uncertainty. Yet we often try to lead them using command-and-control logic, linear planning, and technical fixes. The result is frustration, fragmentation, and unintended consequences.
This podcast examines a different approach.
Drawing on systems thinking, complexity science, and leadership research and grounded in real examples from the health sector. Each episode connects theory to practice. We explore how leaders can shift from fixing parts to strengthening relationships, from certainty to learning, and from individual authority to collective capacity.

Like the AmpedUp Field Notes Substack newsletter, this podcast is reflective and practical. It asks hard questions about why traditional leadership approaches fall short and what it takes to create the conditions for more sustainable, human-centered solutions.

This podcast is for anyone who influences systems from executives, to clinicians, managers, consultants, policy makers, and social change makers. Leadership is not about title. It is about the conditions you create for others to think, adapt, and solve problems together.Anne-Marie Parent Economics Hygiene & Healthy Living Management Management & Leadership Social Sciences
Episodes
  • 1. Relaunching as AmpedUp Field Notes

    1. Relaunching as AmpedUp Field Notes
    Feb 17 2026
    In this relaunch episode, Anne-Marie Parent introduces the evolution from Butterfly Theories to AmpedUp Field Notes and explains why the shift matters.Drawing on her journey from management consulting into healthcare leadership, she reflects on a recurring pattern: why well-designed ideas stall once implementation begins, and why organizations often overlook the intelligence already inside them.Using the butterfly metaphor, from chaos theory’s “butterfly effect” to the deeper transformation that happens inside the chrysalis, this episode explores what it really takes to lead inside complex systems. Sustainable change requires more than strategy. It requires curiosity, humility, and a willingness to reshape the environments we create for others.This episode sets the foundation for the podcast’s focus: observing patterns, experimenting with new ways of leading, and staying curious about how real transformation happens in healthcare and beyond.
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    16 mins
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