Top 5 CliftonStrengths

1. Responsibility
2. Achiever
3. Learner
4. Arranger 
5. Relator

About Dr. Maloney

Chris Maloney, MD PhD has been involved in leadership development for over 20 years. Chris has been a mentor for leadership development and over the past several years has added coaching to his repertoire. He believes a combination of strengths- and asset-based coaching provides individuals with skills necessary to turn challenges into successes. Dr. Maloney is a recently retired physician faculty. During his career, he served many academic and hospital administrative roles, most recently as the Executive Vice President, and Physician-in-Chief for Children's Nebraska, and remains a professor emeritus in the Department of Pediatrics at UNMC's College of Medicine.  A PhD in Biomedical Informatics empowers him to build systems to improve the care of children and mentor informatics graduate students.

What is one of your favorite questions to ask during coaching sessions and why?

Tell me more. An open-ended question that requires the coachee to think about the meaning of the question in the context of what they just said.

What is one lesson you've learned from a career blunder?

Make sure you know the source of the information driving a project.  I was in charge of a project to improve post-operative pain management, and half-way through I was asked to show one of the team members the data used to drive the project.  It didn’t exist.  In fact, the data demonstrated pain management during an emergency department procedure was the concern.  We abandoned the project.