The millennial generation has surpassed Generation X and Baby Boomers as the largest segment of our nation’s workforce. In healthcare, millennials in their thirties are ascending to senior executive roles as well as CEO positions at independent hospitals and smaller organizations.
What does it mean for healthcare as millennials move into leadership? What do organizations need to know as they seek to recruit and retain millennial healthcare executives?
To begin to…
By Daniel Dimenstein
As healthcare systems across the country embark on their journeys from “volume to value,” there is more pressure than ever being placed on physicians to create that value for their patients. Whether those physicians are in private practice or are employed by health systems, those pressures are coming from all directions with no signs of letting up. Some physicians are looking to leave clinical practice and…
When a college or university undertakes a presidential search, a question that arises is whether to invite one or more students to sit on the search committee. There is no firm rule, yet Witt/Kieffer senior partner Dennis Barden believes it makes sense. Writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Barden asserts that having students on the committee acknowledges them as essential constituents in a very important decision.
Besides, students have…
David M. Harlan, MD, has had a distinguished career as a researcher, educator, clinician, and leader in the diabetes field, currently serving as the Diabetes Division Chief and Co-Director of the UMass Diabetes Center of Excellence at UMass Medical School and its clinical affiliate UMass Memorial Medical Center. What helped shape Dr. Harlan as a leader, however, was a distinguished medical career in the U.S. Navy and…
Karla Hughes, PhD, brings a wealth of experience to her current role as chancellor at the University of Arkansas at Monticello – the first female to lead a four-year university in that state’s system. Her successes are noteworthy for someone who at a young age was not destined for higher education. What shaped Karla as a leader?
Below is an abbreviated version of our conversation with Dr. Hughes.
The following is the introduction to our newly published, complimentary best practices guidebook: “Recruiting and Developing Physician Leaders”.
The demand for physician leadership in healthcare has never been greater. Physician executives can add a strong clinical perspective to determining the strategic and operational imperatives of today’s healthcare organizations. Physician leaders bring the viewpoint of population health…
By Stephen C. Davis
I have participated in many physician CEO and physician executive recruitments recently, and quite often applicants who relied on a traditional CV to communicate their qualifications for the position didn’t come across as physician leaders. Though we receive many robust and impressive CVs detailing a candidate’s education, administrative titles, and clinical, research and teaching credentials, we aren’t always able to determine what leadership impact—to market share, operations, quality, clinical outcomes, and financials—the candidate…
By Sheila Murphy
As a long-time academic as well as executive search consultant, I’ve noticed how highly charged and over-simplified questions often surface in candidate interviews with search committees, campus leaders, donors, students or even the media. Some of these questions have…
As academic medical centers feel more pressure to change and to serve students and communities in new ways, new types of leaders are needed. In this interview, Karen E. Otto, managing partner and practice leader, Academic Medicine & Health Sciences, considers the implications for AMCs and executive recruiting.
Question: What’s happening around the role of a typical clinical department chair or dean? Are the responsibilities of leadership expanding in…
Under pressure to close funding gaps through bigger and broader donor campaigns, colleges and universities often lean toward hiring advancement leaders with resumes that include proven fundraising success. In fact, a candidate’s fundraising experience can now matter most to many hiring committees.
Mercedes Chacon Vance, who leads Witt/Kieffer’s higher education advancement team, acknowledges the frustration this creates for many alumni relations and other professionals looking to advance their careers but who do not have significant fundraising backgrounds. In a recent…