Bred To Lead

Bonus: The Next Revolution in Surgery Is Happening Outside the OR

2026-10-23

CERTIFIED DOES NOT MEAN VERIFIED TO DO THE JOB

Recorded live in front of a room of perioperative leaders, Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs and Dr. Edna Gilliam make the case that the next professional revolution in surgery is happening outside the OR, in sterile processing. Dr. Edna, a periop leader who learned SPD for herself, explains why she took the assessment before asking her own leaders to.

IN THIS EPISODE
• How surgery came into the hospital, and why OR nurses organized in 1949 while sterile processing went 45 years without a career path
• What surfaced when 125 SPD leaders across 189 facilities were assessed: certifications alone were not enough
• Operational blindness: why so many periop leaders see SPD as a black box, and why temporary fixes don't change permanent damage
• Process, people, performance: a development track that turns technicians into verified operators

KEY TAKEAWAY
"If you don't give people something to progress to, they begin to cannibalize where they are."

FREE GUIDES FROM SIPS
Certification is not verification
What is Operational Blindness?
Sterile Processing Knowledge Center

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PEOPLE AREN'T BORN TO LEAD. THEY'RE BRED TO LEAD.

Most organizations don't fail all at once. They break down slowly:
• Missed warning signs
• Leaders who stopped seeing what's in front of them
• Teams that quietly stopped believing

By the time someone calls in a fixer, the damage has been building for years.

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ABOUT YOUR HOST
Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs DBA, MBA, B.Ed. | The Business Doctor
• President and COO, SIPS Healthcare Solutions
• Author of Operational Blindness
• Nearly 15 years turning around struggling businesses

WHAT EACH EPISODE COVERS
• Why leaders and organizations lose their way
• The early symptoms most people miss
• The people-first habits that keep a team healthy before it needs rescuing

WHO IT'S FOR
Straight talk, real turnaround stories, and practical tools you can use Monday morning, whether you're running a company, leading a department, or stepping into management for the first time.

Leadership isn't inherited. It's built. Let's build it.

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Bred To Lead is powered by SIPS Healthcare Solutions.
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