PT/PTA Leadership
People-First Leadership in Rehabilitation Practice
Build everyday leadership skills that help rehabilitation teams communicate clearly, develop people, and navigate change—with or without a management title.
12 modules · Workbook activities · Readings and quizzes · $300 one time · Lifetime access
Who this class is for
Physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, rehabilitation leaders, clinical educators, and emerging leaders. Introductory-to-intermediate content connects leadership concepts to rehabilitation workplace situations.
What you’ll learn
Distinguish formal authority from everyday influence while respecting PT/PTA role boundaries.
Apply people-first and servant-leadership principles to workplace decisions.
Choose coaching, feedback, communication, and meeting strategies for common team situations.
Connect organizational purpose with daily priorities, resources, and measures.
Design engagement, empowerment, and mentoring approaches that pair support with accountability.
Use emotional intelligence, self-regulation, and constructive conflict during pressure and change.
Develop an improvement plan with meaningful measures and iterative learning.
Create a leadership action plan with observable behaviors, feedback, and follow-up.
Your 12-module learning path
People-First Leadership
Mindset, Grit, and Self-Leadership
Words, Coaching, and Feedback
Communication and Meetings
Purpose, Alignment, and Influence
Engagement, Empowerment, and Mentoring
Attracting and Selecting Team Members
Authenticity, Emotional Intelligence, and Recovery
Planning, Metrics, and Learning
Leading Change
Growth and Adaptive Leadership
Delegation, Conflict, and Growing Leaders
What the class looks like
Work through presentations, assigned readings, rehabilitation-focused cases, guided reflection, and applied workbook activities. Each module includes a 10-question self-graded quiz with explanatory feedback.
Practice you can take back to your team
Build behavior-specific feedback that preserves dignity. Design a meeting with a clear outcome, owners, and deadlines. Create a mentoring plan with practice opportunities and checkpoints. Finish by designing a 90-day leadership-development experiment with an observable behavior, a measure, and a feedback schedule.
Your instructor
Sean Bagbey brings more than 20 years of rehabilitation experience, healthcare operations, advocacy, and leadership development. His honors include National Physical Therapist Assistant of the Year and the HPA LAMPLighter Leadership Award. He is co-founder of RPI, recipient of the 2023 Ascend Practice of the Year Award.
Enrollment and course credit
$300 one time includes lifetime access to the complete leadership curriculum, presentations, assigned readings, workbook activities, and quizzes.
The course’s CE planning document proposes 10 instructional hours; approval is not yet confirmed. Contact Sean for current credit eligibility before enrolling if you need CE credit.