What does it take to lead with clarity and conviction in one of the most complex industries? In this episode, Steve Downey, Chief Supply Chain and Support Service Officer at Cleveland Clinic, shares a deeply human perspective on transforming healthcare supply chains, grounded in purpose, powered by collaboration and accelerated by AI. From cross-industry lessons to navigating failure to leading with joy and staying anchored in the patient, he offers a compelling blueprint for resilient leadership.

Healthcare transformation requires more than new technology—it demands new ways of thinking. In this episode, Tina Vatanka Murphy speaks with healthcare finance leader and former Marine Jon Alford about leadership, innovation, and challenging legacy systems. From lessons learned in military service to reimagining automation, culture, and supply chains, Jon shares why healthcare leaders must rethink how the system works to build a more resilient future.

Leadership isn’t just about decisions; it’s about how you show up. In this episode, Bruce Johnson, former CEO and former Chairman of the Board of GHX, talks about leadership, transformation and building a lasting legacy. He shares how humor and vulnerability build trust and adaptability, why clarity of purpose and vision matter at pivotal moments, and how values and a clear North Star guide leaders through hard, emotionally charged decisions. 

Leadership isn’t tested in comfort; it’s revealed under pressure. In this episode, Tina sits down with Army veteran and executive coach Nate Allen to explore leadership when the cost of failure is real. Drawing on high-stakes military experience and profound personal loss, Nate shares his “three fights” framework—self, team, and mission—and why trust, vulnerability, and curiosity determine whether teams fracture under pressure or endure and grow.

Tune in and gain practical frameworks for leading with trust, clarity, and lasting impact in complex environments.

About the guest:

Nate Allen is an Army veteran, leadership scholar, and executive coach whose work focuses…

Leaders who thrive through disruption anchor decisions to customers and mission. Best-selling author, Geoffrey Moore, unpacks why enterprises cling to profitable legacy systems, how CEOs create alignment through the inevitable “you look like an idiot” phase, and why putting customers first, employees next, keeps transformation grounded. He also digs into responsible AI, innovation blind spots, and the trapped value that emerges when strategy finally meets execution.

Courage fuels growth in uncertainty. In this episode, Harvard Business School Professor and best-selling author, Dr. Ranjay Gulati, shares why courage is not the absence of fear, but rather taking bold action in the face of it. He explains how purpose and courage reinforce each other, how leaders can build cultures where safe experimentation and smart failures drive learning, and how courage can be trained like a muscle through mindset and self-narrative. 

In this episode, Tina talks with Deidre Paknad, CEO and co-founder of WorkBoard, about how leaders and teams cut through noise and stay aligned on what matters most. Deidre describes alignment as the convergence of time and effort, and why it’s never “set and done” in fast-moving environments. They unpack operating rhythms, leading indicators, and a practical quarterly blueprint that reduces bureaucracy and accelerates execution, rooted in resilience, accountability, and daily courage.

What separates leaders who thrive in complexity from those who get stuck? Clarity—and the courage to choose it. Tina talks with Mike Mahoney, Chairman and CEO of Boston Scientific, about leading at scale without losing speed or soul. Mike shares how he filters signal from noise, sets future-back direction, cuts bureaucracy, and practices “restless leadership.” 

In Breaking Script’s first episode, host Tina Vatanka Murphy shares a moment that shaped her view of leadership. A professor told CEOs that uncertainty calls for bold, courageous action. That spark became this podcast: conversations with CEOs, authors, changemakers and leaders rewriting the rules. You’ll hear stories of fear, failure and resilience, and choices made at the edge of the unknown, with lessons for what’s next.