Top Workplaces: Sabrina Trocchi preaches transparency amid a pandemic at Wheeler Clinic
On Sunday, September 27, 2020, the Hartford Courant published a special Top Workplaces 2020 insert in their Sunday print issue, highlighting winners of the annual awards, which are based on anonymous surveys of employees at organizations across the region.
Wheeler received Top Workplaces recognition for the seventh year, and Wheeler President and CEO Sabrina Trocchi, PhD, MPA, received an additional award as Top Leader in the category of "Large Employer."
An excerpt of the full article is below, and the full version can be read on Courant.com.
Top Workplaces: Sabrina Trocchi preaches transparency amid a pandemic at Wheeler Clinic
by Michael Hamad, The Hartford Courant
Photography by Brad Horrigan, The Hartford Courant
Wearing a blue surgical mask, Sabrina Trocchi stood outside the Susan Walkama Health and Wellness Center at the Wheeler Clinic’s expansive Hartford campus, not far from the center’s COVID-19 testing site.
Trocchi, a former chief of staff with the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and previously Wheeler’s chief operating officer, was promoted to president and CEO in November 2019.
Four months later, the coronavirus pandemic tested virtually everything she knew about leadership.
“What has become so evident, more than ever, is the urgency to communicate,” Trocchi said, “to be transparent with staff around what we’re doing, what we’re thinking, how we’re moving forward, how they can be part of the decision-making and informing how we do that.”
