President of El Camino Surgery Center Joins ABL Organization

Orange, CA — May 29, 2009 — Lisa Cooper, President of El Camino Surgery Center LLC, has joined the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization (ABL). As part of California’s leading vertical-industry Chief Executives’ Organization, ABL Members provide one another with executive leadership coaching through its confidential, professionally-facilitated, peer-CEO Advisory Board Round Tables, executive learning workshops, network of CEO peers, and expert resources.

El Camino Surgery Center has provided excellence in outpatient surgery to over 80,000 patients since it opened in 1991. The multi-specialty ambulatory surgery center encompasses over 18,000 square feet of state-of-the-art facilities on the El Camino Hospital campus. It has on staff over 180 physicians, plus registered nurses, certified nursing and medical assistants, and surgical technologists. Surgeries performed include orthopedic, gynecological, GI, urological, ophthalmological, and general surgeries. The center is accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care. 

Lisa joined El Camino Surgery Center in 2001 as the Clinical Director, becoming the President in 2006.  Earlier in her career, she was an operating room nurse at St. Luke's in San Francisco. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Nursing from the University of California at San Francisco.

About the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization
ABL supports the needs of its Member CEOs by providing a place for top-level executives to draw on the experience, knowledge and skill sets of their peers in a vertical industry, personal advisory board – “multi-coach approach” – setting.

The core component of the CEO Membership experience is the group Round Table meeting. Members meet once a month for a half-day with a group of peer CEOs, Presidents, COOs and Division General Managers from non-competing companies, all from the same industry (healthcare, technology or life sciences), in a trusted and confidential board room-like setting, which allows ABL Members to tackle topics and enhance their decision making and business performance. Topics include: developing and honing new business strategies and best practices, new lines of business, “A-players” on the management team, and an effective board of directors, as well as understanding trends in new markets, mergers and acquisitions, compensation, and other “hot” topics brought to the Round Tables by the Members themselves.

ABL Members also gather several times a year at workshops and conferences to exchange ideas and connect with other chief executives beyond their own CEO peer groups. In effect, ABL Members serve as one another’s business coaches within the Round Tables and are encouraged to connect and leverage their co-Member peers’ particular skills and expertise for additional leadership coaching, one-on-one, outside of their monthly group meeting. In addition, each Round Table’s facilitator also serves as an objective business advisor, offering executive and industry insights and advice.

 ABL's Chief Executive Leadership Development Round Table program is currently offered in California's Greater Los Angeles, Orange and San Francisco County areas. More information about the ABL Organization can be found at http://www.abl.org .