Dr. Susan MacLellan-Tobert

A Mayo-trained, board-certified pediatric cardiologist, Sue brings 28 years of clinical and leadership experience to her work. Throughout her medical career, she built trusted relationships across healthcare systems, led organizational initiatives, expanded clinical outreach, mentored physicians, and championed physician development.

Today, Sue coaches senior physicians, physician executives, and emerging healthcare leaders, helping them strengthen executive presence, navigate challenging relationships and transitions, think more strategically, and make decisions aligned with organizational priorities and personal values.

Her work also extends to healthcare organizations seeking to build stronger coaching cultures and sustainable internal coaching capabilities. She advises organizations on using coaching to advance physician leadership, engagement, professional development, and meaningful organizational change.

Now retired from clinical medicine, Sue devotes her work to developing physician leaders and advancing the practice of physician coaching. Her approach is grounded in self-awareness, agency, resilience, and values-aligned leadership, helping physicians expand their organizational impact while building meaningful and sustainable professional lives.