Our latest report explores how interim and on-demand leaders are helping organizations accelerate innovation, scale new initiatives, and navigate complexity with precision.

Why It Matters: In today’s healthcare and academic medicine landscape, transformation is constant, and the need for agile strategic leadership has never been greater.

WittKieffer hired Laura Orr, a recognized governance expert, to lead and expand the firm’s Board Advisory Solution globally.

Why It Matters: Boards that are engaged, effective, and strategically aligned have a significant impact on organizational success.

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For more than a decade, we've partnered with AMDIS to survey CMIOs on their challenges, priorities, and opportunities. View our latest report.

Why It Matters: Informatics officers are critical to the success of today's healthcare organizations, making it imperative to track CMIOs, their imperatives, and their sentiments.

Our Physician Leadership Institute (PLI) experts outline how to hold their teams together . . . in order to move them forward. 

Why It Matters: A team can have skilled members yet still exhibit dysfunction. What’s needed from leadership is relational fluency: the ability to lead through connection, trust, and collaborative strength.

Also from our PLI team: Grace, Space, and Pace: The New Physician Leadership Mindset

Healthcare represents an attractive destination for executives from other sectors; we share insights from three leaders who made the shift.

Why It Matters: Healthcare organizations benefit from new ideas and insights while executives can find compelling challenges and opportunities by transitioning into healthcare.

WittKieffer provides healthcare organizations with dynamic interim and on-demand executives. Here are our three most requested interim leadership roles in healthcare.

Why It Matters: Interim and on-demand leaders enable leadership teams to meet urgent needs and strategic priorities.

WittKieffer Out and About

We are proud to engage with industry organizations doing the important work of advancing leadership in healthcare and the media outlets covering our industry. Among our recent activities:

Recent speaking engagements:

  • Valerie Weber, MD, Raj Ramachandran, and Michael Anderson, MD, presented a webinar for Healthcare Leaders of New York (HLNY) on “From Clinician to C-Suite Executive: Steps and Strategies”
  • Keshia Harris moderated a webinar for the National Association of Health Services Executives (NAHSE) on “Evolving as a Health Care Leader: Key Strategies and Steps for the Future”
  • Aaron Mitra spoke on "Career Strategies for Healthcare Leaders” at the recent gathering of the New England Society for Healthcare Strategy (NESHS)
  • Steve Davis and Keshia Harris shared career advice with the Advancement League for its Young Health Leaders Summit
  • Zach Durst and Wendy Kerschner presented key findings of our CMIO survey report at the AMDIS annual symposium in Ojai, California.

Attendance:

We've had individuals and teams on hand for the following key industry events:

  • AHA
  • AAPL
  • ELAM
  • HANYS
  • HAP
  • HASC
  • LeadingAge
  • Grantmakers in Health

Where we're headed: NAHSE Annual Leadership Conference; AACN Academic Nurse Leadership Conference; AAMC Annual Meeting; CHIME Fall Forum; and hospital association annual meetings in Vermont, Virginia, Florida, Texas, and more!

Where we're presenting: National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives (NALHE) Summit; LeadingAge Annual Meeting; Women in Medicine; ABQAURP Annual Meeting.

In the Media

  • AHA's Market Scan featured an excellent summary of the "Five Facets" of CHRO leadership, from our recent comprehensive study of the role. Becker's flagged the report for its readers.
  • Executive Partner Donna Padilla outlined the key findings of our major healthcare CEO study in the ACHE Blog. AHA's Market Scan summarized the key findings, while Becker's cited the report as well.
  • How the CISO role is structured can determine its success; consultant Zach Durst outlined the options in Healthcare Innovation. In other health IT matters, Becker's covered our latest report on healthcare CIOs.
  • Becker's Hospital Review tapped Managing Partner Paul Bohne to shed light on C-suite roles that are less prominent than in the past.
  • Interim leadership is a key talent strategy for healthcare organizations, as detailed by Adam Burns in HealthLeaders.

Also from WittKieffer

Podcasts:

Listen to more of our Impactful Leaders Podcasts.

 

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Best wishes for the rest of your Summer!

 

The WittKieffer Healthcare Team 

WittKieffer is the premier executive search and leadership advisory firm developing impactful leadership teams for organizations that improve quality of life. We work exclusively with organizations in healthcare, science, and education — the Quality of Life Ecosystem — and provide essential knowledge, analysis, and perspectives that produce effective leaders and inclusive cultures. Through our executive search, interim leadership, and leadership advisory solutions, we strengthen organizations that make the world better. WittKieffer is proud to be 100 percent employee-owned.