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What qualities do you expect to see in a highly effective leader?
Highly effective leadership looks like an individual with vision and an individual that can communicate really clearly. Someone who is really flexible that gives direction, but allows people to find themselves within.  I think that I try to build rapport with people and let them know what they are sharing with me I am keeping in confidence if they ask me to or if I need to share it than I let them know. Providing people with a sense of comfort, being transparent, being open and honest, asking probing questions, and letting people know what happens to information.  I lot of what I do is strategic planning, so the process of communication is really important in my job. So, I think that is a piece of it.  I have sense of humor and I try to exhibit that when I am talking to people and it seems to put people at ease. I am open to criticism and open to new ways of doing things. So, I am hoping my leadership shows that I am flexible. I am very, very driven-borderline perfectionist. So, I don’t know if that is a good thing or not, but it comes in handy with my job.  In other ways, it is a bit of a challenge. That is how I would summarize it.-Bethany Johnson-Javois (58 sec.)              

           

Bethany Johnson-Javois
CEO
St. Louis Integrated Health Network
Leadership St. Louis Class of 2007-08

  
As CEO of the St. Louis Integrated Health Network, Bethany Johnson-Javois leads a $2.6 million non-profit that serves the region’s safety net health care providers and the local community to promote the mission of providing quality, affordable, accessible care to all with an emphasis on serving the underserved.  Garnering her expertise in strategic planning and implementation, Bethany’s work in both physical and behavioral healthcare has positioned the St. Louis safety net health care system as a national model for collaborative innovation in community based healthcare.  For her leadership, she has garnered notable recognition including being selected among the inaugural class of Young Leaders under 40 by The St. Louis American Foundation and being recognized with Access to Equal Justice Award from the Washington University School of Law’s Clinical Education Program. While managing the St. Louis Regional Health Commission’s access to behavioral health initiative, the Commission received the Outstanding Civic Leader Award from NAMI and gained national recognition as a model of state/local collaboration.

Bethany holds a master’s degree in social work from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. She was selected as a Danforth Urban Fellow at Washington University School of Social Work and secured a fellowship in the Missouri Education Policy Fellowship Program.  Bethany’s calling as an innovator is to “repair the breach” and in that vein she has executed dozens of substantive non-profit projects over fifteen years that have positively impacted the quality of life for disadvantaged populations. She currently holds the distinguished honor of serving on the board of trustees for the Deaconess Foundation and advises several influential non-profits including the Non-Profit Services Consortium, of which she served as a vice-chair of the board.  As a licensed Evangelist Missionary in the Churches of God in Christ, she is a noted motivational speaker, trainer, and facilitator around spiritual development, leadership and youth capacity building.

  
 

 

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