The Rowan Chamber’s Power in Partnership Breakfast featured networking, a buffet breakfast, and a welcome from President Elaine Spalding, who recognized key guests and the event sponsor, Novant Health Rowan Medical Center. Steve Fisher provided Chamber updates on the 2025 Strategic Plan, the 100th anniversary, advocacy trips, and the upcoming Minority Business Trade Show. Sponsor representative Gary Blabon introduced keynote speaker Dr. Jonathan Fisher, a cardiologist and mindfulness expert, who spoke on the mind-heart connection, leadership, and well-being. The event concluded with closing remarks, acknowledgments, and a door prize drawing.

Dr. Jonathan Fisher will lead an interactive workshop for OrthoCarolina leaders, exploring the critical role of the mind-heart connection in leadership. This private event will focus on practical strategies for navigating stress, fostering resilience, and leading with greater clarity and connection.

Through the lens of the Seven Timeless Traits of the Heart—steadiness, wisdom, openness, wholeness, courage, lightness, and warmth—leaders will gain insights into how emotional well-being directly impacts decision-making, team dynamics, and organizational success.

This session is designed to provide actionable tools for personal growth and professional leadership in today’s demanding healthcare landscape.

Join us for a heartfelt conversation about the connection between emotions and heart health. I’ll share practical tools for caring for your heart—physically and emotionally—through social, mental, and physical well-being.

I’ll be joined by Angie Bush, CEO of Hospitality House of Charlotte, who will share how her organization supports patients and families during some of their most challenging times. Together, we’ll explore how emotional well-being, community support, and compassionate care can make a lasting impact.

I’m especially excited to share my signature talk, Just One Heart: A Cardiologist’s Guide to Healing, Health, and Happiness, as we explore what it means to live with integrity of heart across its four dimensions—physical, emotional, social, and spiritual.

In today’s divided and stressful world, we often encounter “heart breakers”—experiences that challenge our sense of connection, purpose, and well-being. Together, we’ll turn toward the “heart wakers”—the timeless qualities that sustain and heal us. I’ll introduce the Seven Timeless Traits of the Heart and how they can help us navigate conflict, stress, and uncertainty, even within our own communities.

This gathering will include a 30-minute talk, during which I will share my personal story and insights from my book. This will be followed by a 10-minute roundtable discussion, which will conclude with a 20-minute Q&A. I look forward to an evening of reflection, connection, and heartfelt conversation.