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The leadership books you wish you had on day one.

One book tells the honest story of becoming a leader before anyone hands you the playbook. The other delivers the practical operating system for leading surgical services with confidence, data, and discipline.

Explore the Flagship Release Meet the Companion Story
Book Two · Final production24-chapter practical guideBuilt for surgical-services leaders
Flagship publishingThe Perioperative Leadership Collection
Nobody Handed Me the Playbook by David West
Book OneThe companion story
Upcoming releaseThe Accidental Perioperative Leader by David West
Book TwoThe practical operating guide
Story → Systems → MasteryDavid West, MBA-HA, BSN, RN
Book TwoUpcoming flagship release
24 chaptersLeadership through implementation
Book OneCompanion leadership story
WPG collectionStory → Systems → Mastery

The flagship product line

Two books. One complete leadership journey.

Book Two provides the operating system. Book One gives that system its human context—building recognition, trust, and confidence through the lived transition from clinician to leader.

Upcoming flagship releaseBook Two · The practical operating guide

The Accidental Perioperative Leader

A Practical Operating System for Leading Surgical Services with Confidence, Data, and Discipline

A comprehensive, application-focused guide for leaders who must manage people, workforce, operations, finance, analytics, strategy, and implementation—often before anyone teaches them how those responsibilities fit together.

01Leadership and credibility
02Workforce and productivity
03Operations and reliability
04Finance, analytics, and strategy
Current statusComplete 24-chapter manuscript · Final publication production underway
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Front cover of The Accidental Perioperative Leader by David West

Operational Excellence Starts Here.

Front cover of Nobody Handed Me the Playbook by David West
Companion leadership storyBook One · The human journey

Nobody Handed Me the Playbook

What I Learned Becoming a Perioperative Leader Before Anyone Taught Me How to Lead

An honest, narrative-driven account for capable clinicians who step into leadership before they feel fully prepared. It gives readers language for the weight, mistakes, growth, and identity shift behind the role.

The collection sequenceStory builds trust. Systems build capability.
Current statusComplete manuscript · Focused revision follows Book Two
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Release integrity

Purchase links, formats, pricing, and release dates will appear only after the final editorial, design, and distribution files are approved. The website will never present an unfinished edition as available for sale.

02Why WPG

The gap between expertise and execution

Strong leaders need more than information. They need a way to run the work.

Leaders are expected to manage people, priorities, operations, finance, culture, data, and strategy—often without a connected system for turning those responsibilities into disciplined action.

West Performance Group translates complex expectations into practical frameworks, executive tools, education, and implementation support. The company is grounded in healthcare operations and perioperative leadership, with methods designed to create value wherever leadership and operating discipline matter.

Our purposeEquip leaders and organizations to perform with clarity, accountability, and operational discipline.

The WPG Performance Architecture

One connected system. Four operating disciplines.

Sustainable performance is built by aligning how leaders lead, how work operates, how resources are managed, and how data informs decisions.

01

Leadership

Build clarity, credibility, accountability, and team capability.

02

Operations

Create reliable systems for priorities, flow, and execution.

03

Finance

Connect decisions, resources, and performance to value.

04

Analytics

Turn measures into insight, decisions, and focused action.

WPG principle

Leadership sets direction. Operating systems create reliability. Financial discipline protects value. Analytics turns performance into informed action.

What West Performance Group delivers

Practical capability—not disconnected content.

Every WPG offering is designed to help people understand the work, make stronger decisions, and establish a repeatable path to better performance.

01

Executive Tools & Operating Systems

Practical toolkits, scorecards, planners, workbooks, and operating systems that help leaders organize and execute the work.

  • Executive effectiveness and decision tools
  • Leadership, operations, finance, and analytics systems
  • Ready-to-use templates, dashboards, and standard work
02

Leadership Education & Development

Structured development for emerging managers, experienced leaders, healthcare executives, and organizational leadership pipelines.

  • Leadership transition and identity
  • Accountability, communication, and engagement
  • Executive judgment, influence, and implementation
03

Healthcare & Perioperative Performance

Clinically grounded operating methods for leaders responsible for surgical services, workforce, access, quality, and performance.

  • Staffing, productivity, capacity, and flow
  • First-case readiness, turnover, and utilization
  • Financial fluency and executive decision support
04

Enterprise Solutions & Advisory

Scalable resources and structured support for organizations building stronger leadership and operating capability.

  • Corporate licensing and team implementation
  • Performance assessments and improvement roadmaps
  • Leadership cohorts, workshops, and advisory support

The WPG product ecosystem

High-value resources leaders can put to work immediately.

Current build priority

The first commercial releases will focus on executive toolkits, planners, journals, and integrated operating systems.

01Priority release

Executive Toolkit Series

Focused, practical resources designed to solve a defined leadership or operating problem without unnecessary theory.

  • Executive Effectiveness Scorecard
  • Weekly Executive Dashboard
  • Executive Meeting Toolkit
  • Leadership Accountability Toolkit
In development
02Priority release

Executive Planners & Journals

Purpose-built planning and reflection systems that connect daily decisions to priorities, leadership growth, and follow-through.

  • Leader’s Daily Planner
  • Executive Weekly Planner
  • 90-Day Execution Journal
  • Leadership Reflection Journal
In development
03Core intellectual property

Operating Systems & Workbooks

Integrated systems for leaders who need more than a template—a repeatable way to run the work and improve performance.

  • Executive Operating System
  • Leadership and Operations Systems
  • Finance and Analytics Systems
  • Operational Excellence Workbook
In development
04Organization pathway

Programs & Corporate Solutions

Education, implementation, and licensing pathways designed for leaders, teams, hospitals, health systems, and growing organizations.

  • Performance Academy
  • Leadership cohorts and workshops
  • Corporate licensing
  • Advisory and implementation support
In development

Built for consequential responsibility

For leaders and organizations accountable for performance.

WPG meets people at the point where expertise must become leadership judgment, team capability, and reliable execution.

01

Perioperative Leaders

Charge nurses, managers, directors, and executives leading the people and systems behind surgical care.

02

Healthcare Leaders

Clinical and operational leaders translating expertise into stronger business judgment and enterprise results.

03

Emerging Executives

Ambitious professionals building the discipline, confidence, and operating rhythm required for larger responsibility.

04

Organizations

Hospitals, health systems, ASCs, and business teams seeking repeatable leadership and performance capability.

From pressure to operating intelligence

Measure what matters. Understand why it moved. Act with purpose.

WPG connects performance measures to leadership decisions instead of treating a dashboard or favorable percentage as the end of the work.

01Priority execution
02Leadership accountability
03Workforce productivity
04Operational reliability
05Financial stewardship
06Continuous improvement

The West Performance Group Method

Five disciplines that move performance forward.

The method keeps leadership development, daily execution, resource decisions, and improvement connected.

  1. 01

    Clarity

    Define what matters, why it matters, what success looks like, and who owns the next decision.

  2. 02

    Accountability

    Translate expectations into visible ownership, follow-through, feedback, and fair consequences.

  3. 03

    Operational Excellence

    Build repeatable systems that make the right work easier to execute consistently.

  4. 04

    Financial Stewardship

    Connect resources and decisions to value, sustainability, and responsible performance.

  5. 05

    Continuous Improvement

    Measure, learn, adjust, and reinforce until better performance becomes the normal way of working.

Built to scale beyond one reader

One resource can help a leader. A connected system can strengthen an organization.

Individual pathway

Learn, apply, and advance.

Books, toolkits, planners, journals, workbooks, and structured education for leaders building their own capability.

Organization pathway

Standardize, equip, and sustain.

Corporate licensing, cohorts, workshops, assessment, advisory, and implementation support for teams and organizations.

Founder perspective

Built by a leader who lived the gap.

David West, MBA-HA, BSN, RN, brings experience across frontline nursing, ambulatory surgery, medical-device sales, and complex operating-room leadership. West Performance Group grew from a practical conviction: capable people should not have to assemble leadership and operating capability entirely by trial and error.

“Leaders do not need more disconnected information. They need a practical system for turning responsibility into reliable performance.”
David West · Founder, West Performance Group

The next standard for leadership performance

Build the system behind better decisions and stronger execution.

Book Two is the lead commercial release, followed by its companion leadership story and the broader WPG portfolio of executive toolkits, planners, journals, and operating systems. Purchase and inquiry pathways will activate as each product is approved.

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