Why Your Audience Will Love This Episode
What makes Dr. Huddleston a standout guest for healthcare-focused shows.
A Practitioner Who Never Left the Bedside
After 30+ years as an active hospitalist at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Huddleston doesn't speak in abstractions. Every insight comes from a career spent in clinical rooms, not conference rooms.
She Named a Problem No One Else Had Named
The "Messy Middle," the structural gap between what hospital leadership decides and what reaches the bedside, is a concept your listeners have lived but never had language for. This episode gives it to them.
The Person Who Reviewed Every Death at Mayo Clinic
For nearly 12 years, Dr. Huddleston reviewed 100% of in-hospital deaths personally, training every reviewer herself. What she learned about how hospitals quietly fail patients is unlike anything your audience has heard.
An MD Who Went Back for an Engineering Degree
Her Master's in Industrial Engineering and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt give her a dual lens that reframes healthcare quality in terms of systems design: rare, credible, and deeply practical.
She Translates Complexity for Any Audience
Whether your listeners are frontline nurses, hospital administrators, or patient advocates, Dr. Huddleston makes thirty years of quality science immediately usable. Her speaking style is direct, evidence-based, and empathetic.
A Track Record Across Four Continents
Past President of the Society of Hospital Medicine. Harvard Macy Scholar. NSF-funded researcher. International keynote speaker. Your listeners will feel the weight of that experience in every answer.
About
Benoy Tamang is a nearly 40-year veteran of business startups and executive leadership, having grown businesses and teams worldwide. Benoy has worked in public companies to improve organizational performance, as well as to recruit and build high-performance teams in 7 startups. Explicitly focused on strategy, execution, and leadership, Benoy's work has produced results by adjusting the key levers that most significantly impact outcomes.
Producing high-impact results with leaders has been the focus of the last decade's worth of work through CEO and executive coaching. The primary focus has been on enabling the integration of talent, training, performance, and feedback to support superior personal and professional development. Benoy is energized and motivated when he is learning, serving, and creating in his life. The proud father of 5 adult children, and a growing base of 6+ grandchildren.
Key Topics
Strategic Leadership
How to lead with clarity, cut through noise, and align your organization around the strategies that actually move the needle.
Fearless Founders
What separates founders who scale from those who stall — and how to develop the mindset and habits of a fearless, decisive leader.
Evolving from Founder to CEO
The critical transition every founder must make — how to let go of the operator role and step fully into visionary CEO leadership.
Unmistakable Communication
How leaders can communicate with precision and impact to eliminate confusion, build trust, and drive team performance.
High-Performing Teams
The systems, culture, and leadership behaviors required to recruit, develop, and retain teams that consistently deliver exceptional results.
Defeating Unconscious Incompetence
Uncovering the blind spots that quietly sabotage leadership performance — and the proven framework to close the gap.
Affiliations & Organizations
Institutions and organizations Dr. Huddleston has founded, led, or been affiliated with.
Credentials & Achievements
A record built over 30+ years of clinical practice, research, and leadership.