By Jason Petros
In my career as an executive search consultant in the healthcare industry, I’ve spent thousands of hours in interviews with chief executive officers, chief operating officers, chief medical officers and a myriad of other demonstrably successful healthcare leaders. These opportunities have allowed me to identify a few key components that successful candidates always seem to provide during the course of high-level interviews.
Expression of Interest
The first is a clearly…
By Julie Rosen, Leader, Not-for-Profit Practice
What makes a not-for-profit organization great? Its mission, of course, as well as dedicated staff, volunteers, board members and various stakeholders. What may be most important, however, is exceptional leadership. It is leadership that can be the difference between an organization thriving or merely surviving.
What defines an exceptional nonprofit CEO or executive director? Several key attributes come to mind: creative, credible and communicative. He/she must have the…
By Melissa Fincher
It is fairly common for an institution to undertake a leadership recruitment on its own, and later in the process to seek the services of an executive search firm. It may be that the search committee wants to take a fresh approach, to reach out to a broader segment of candidates or enlist the expertise of experienced search consultants.
As a former university talent acquisition and organizational development consultant and current executive recruiter, I have experienced this transition…
“Hospitals and health systems have no shortage of excellent CFOs who, from a technical and operational standpoint, do their jobs well,” writes Witt/Kieffer’s John McFarland. “However, those CFOs who exhibit ‘next-level’ leadership qualities are the most successful in leading their organizations through the changing healthcare landscape.”
What defines “next-level” can be subjective, McFarland says. He outlines four capabilities a successful healthcare CFO must be able to accomplish in a recent article for HFMA’s CFO Forum:
As a former researcher and administrator in academic medicine, Witt/Kieffer’s Joyce De Leo joined the executive search profession to fuel her passion to mentor women to apply for and succeed in leadership roles. In a recent article published by HigherEd Jobs, De Leo examines the progress of women’s leadership in academic medicine in relation to the ELAM program, which was developed to increase the number and influence of women leaders…
As the inaugural director of the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Matthew Might has the opportunity to truly make a difference in a dynamic new field. Seizing opportunities is nothing new to Dr. Might, who is also a senior lecturer of biomedical informatics with Harvard Medical School and was formerly a strategist with President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative. Dr. Might is a pioneer in addressing rare genetic disorders, inspired by his son,…
By Concetta M. Stewart, Ph.D.
With higher education undergoing significant transformation, institutions are looking for a new kind of leader in the provost. Today’s provost is often asked to take on responsibilities that go well beyond academic stewardship to include areas as expansive and diverse as enrollment and admissions, student affairs and student services, compliance, finance, fundraising, marketing, and even information technology.
That provosts play an increasingly central role would not be debated…
By Rachel Polhemus and Jason Petros
Mergers and acquisitions have influenced nearly every aspect of the healthcare industry in recent years, including the career opportunities available to rising executives. Hospital and health system consolidation has resulted in fewer CEO positions, more centralized decision-making, and often frustration among top leaders about their roles and responsibilities. For many executives, the rapid increase of matrixed mega-systems has upended the traditional path of advancement. Moving slowly but steadily up the ladder has gone…
Since 1987, the month of March has been designated Women’s History Month in the U.S., with International Women’s Day on March 8th as the focal point of the observance. Throughout the month, Witt/Kieffer will be celebrating women’s leadership in the workplace by highlighting our commitment to female leadership as well as sharing related thought leadership.
Throughout Witt/Kieffer’s 50-year history, female…
A chief advancement officer in higher education tends to be very well connected on campus, and certainly off campus as well with important alumni, donors, and community leaders. Because the advancement executive has relationships with such important constituents, he/she becomes an important figure in the recruitment of a new president. In the interview below, Witt/Kieffer’s Mercedes Vance and Suzanne Teer shed light on the advancement officer’s role as a new president is selected…