Archives: Spotlights
December 2025 – Jamie Margolis, Ph.D.
Jamie Margolis, Ph.D., Sr. Vice President, Donor & Product Operations, NMDP What is your current role? I have had the great honor to work at NMDP for over 16 years, delivering on a mission that is dedicated to saving lives through cell therapy. In my current role, I am responsible for the leadership and strategic…
November 2025 – Lisa Hawks
Lisa Hawks, Executive Vice President, Marketing & Communications, Nexben What is your current role? As Head of Marketing and Communications at Nexben, an emerging growth company transforming how employers offer benefits, I’m passionate about helping organizations bring more control, flexibility, and choice to their health benefit strategies through ICHRAs and defined contribution health plans. At…
November 2025 – Diane Nanstad
Diane Nanstad, VP, Health System Collaboration & Innovation, Available for Next Healthcare Leadership Opportunity What’s your current role? My career has centered on tackling health care’s most pressing challenges — from advancing population health and value-based care to generating data-driven insights and, most recently, applying artificial intelligence (AI) for clinical decision support. In Health IT,…
October 2025 – Karen Larson, MHA, MLS(ASCP)CM
Karen Larson, MHA, MLS(ASCP)CM , Director of Operations, Minneapolis Clinic of Neurology What’s your current role? In my current role as Director of Operations with Minneapolis Clinic of Neurology, I have the privilege to head operations as well as design and execute strategic initiatives. I have accountability for our five clinic locations along with our…
October 2025 – Bridgett Anderson, LDA, MBA
Bridgett Anderson, LDA, MBA, Executive Director, Minnesota Board of Dentistry What is your current role? I serve as the Executive Director of the Minnesota Board of Dentistry, which is the state agency responsible for regulation and licensing for over 18,000 dental professionals in the state. I represent the nine-member Board as the chief executive officer.…
September 2025 – Deb Gordon
Deb Gordon, Senior Client Partner, Korn Ferry What is your current role? As a member of the Korn Ferry Healthcare Practice, my role is focused on accelerating client outcomes through executives on demand for leadership roles, consulting needs, and project-based execution. The model has proven to be a strategic lever for organizations going through transformation,…
September 2025 – Kate Shaughnessy, MHA, PMP
Kate Shaughnessy, MHA, PMP, Population Health Advisor, Hennepin Healthcare What’s your current role? As a Population Health Advisor at Hennepin Healthcare, I lead system-wide initiatives to improve care delivery, enhance health equity, and advance performance under value-based contracts. I co-design and implement scalable models that close care gaps, strengthen risk adjustment practices, and improve outreach…
August 2025 – Colleen Rogers
Colleen Rogers, COO and Strategy Advisor (fractional leadership roles), Independent Consultant – Healthcare Startups and Advisory Firms What is your current role? Following 20+ years at UnitedHealth Group, where my last role was VP Strategic Initiatives and Delivery, I currently serve as a strategic advisor and fractional leader across three healthcare-focused organizations: Firefly Immersive, Adaptive…
August 2025 – Libby Hornibrook, CPA
Libby Hornibrook, CPA, Partner, Health Care, Eisner Amper What’s your current role? I have over 20 years of experience working with accounting and advisory firms, specializing in consulting with independent physician practices and hospital systems. When did you join the Women’s Health Leadership TRUST and what roles have you held within the TRUST? I joined…
July 2025 – Lisa Ries
Lisa Ries, Chief Growth Officer, Flyte by Pelvital What’s your current role? As Chief Growth Officer at Pelvital for over 2 years, I lead the strategic and executional efforts behind the commercialization of Flyte, a first-line, non-invasive treatment for female urinary incontinence. This includes driving market adoption, expanding access through reimbursement strategies, and identifying key…
July 2025 – Karen Flanagan Kleinhans, MHA
Karen Flanagan Kleinhans, MHA, CEO, Community Dental Care What is your current role? I have served as CEO for Community Dental Care for seven and a half years. I lead this non-profit health care organization to deliver on our mission to provide culturally sensitive community oral health care, preventive education, professional training and advocate for access…
June 2025 – Emily Fry, MHA
Emily Fry, MHA, VP Strategy, Sanford Health What’s your current role? I just started with Sanford about a month ago! I was formerly with Geisinger Health, a leading organization within Pennsylvania, running innovation. I joined Sanford as the VP, Strategy to lead and manage our strategic planning and growth responsibilities. This organization has an amazing…