Stedman Stevens
Stedman Stevens is an executive with a record of success building new business strategies in multiple industries that align products and services with costs and customers. Leading as President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer provides a strong understanding of the value of enterprise-wide integration of key initiatives as well as reporting to Boards. Healthcare. Mr. Stevens has been on the front line of healthcare managing clinical trials (PRP), accelerating medical device development (Confidant), building physician education programs (Access Worldwide) for the top 5 pharmaceutical companies, overseeing as Board of Directors for a $1B health system (NHRMC) and working on aging issues (UNC Health $4B) for retirement care and senior living facilities. Reach him at www.linkedin.com/in/stedmanstevens.
Articles:
Pregnant After Your Mother Has Died
Pregnant with First Child You are becoming a mom. After months of trying, suddenly there is news. You are pregnant. After your husband, who is the first person you want to tell? Your mother. But what if she has died? Such was the case when my adult daughter Charlotte became pregnant with her first child. She wanted to share the new journey with her mother. But her mother — my wife — had died 17 years before. Charlotte had already experienced so much pain from her mom’s early death: the “Sweet 16” celebration without Mom, high school graduation, college graduation, […]
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Telling the Children that Mom is Going to Die
Telling the Children My wife was dying, and telling the children was the next step. My wife and I struck out on our journey to prepare, protect, and parent our three sweet teenage daughters. There is no right or wrong way to convey this message. But there may be better or worse ways to help your children transition through one of the most difficult experiences of their young lives. Oddly, we did not realize the enormity of the task we were undertaking at the time, probably due to stress, fatigue, and emotional exhaustion. But we both felt in telling the […]
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From Grief to Gratitude: How We Get There
From Grief to Gratitude As we live through the pandemic, all of us feel the unusual weight in the air and sense the loss of how our lives used to be. We all have reason to grieve now. But that need not be the end of the story. How do we move from grief to gratitude? We can rise, if we choose, to grief’s challenge. Together we can change grief into an experience not simply painful, but also sustaining and fulfilling. When we all start thinking and talking about an issue, things change. Consider some radical alterations of opinion over the […]
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