Experienced Executive Coaching
Helping you succeed!
Experienced Executive Coaching
Helping you succeed!
Philosophy and Passion
Philosophy
Executive coaching relationships are very personal and built on trust. Finding the right connection is key to both my clients and myself. Giving you the time, trust and guidance you deserve is my priority.
Passion
After 30+ years as an executive leading large and small healthcare organizations, I have shifted my time to focus exclusively on my passion - developing executive leaders to reach their full potential.
Dan Varnum, MBA, Fellow American College Healthcare Executives
To learn more about my approach to executive coaching, call or email me.
515-229-2514
Experience and Background
Leadership Experience
- President & CEO of an integrated healthcare delivery system with annual revenue of $500 million, 2400+ employees, and nearly 200 employed providers. Focus: Developing leaders, growth, strategy, operations, full P/L responsibility.
- Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer for small (15 provider) medical group that grew to a statewide medical group with 240+ providers in a 10 year period. Focus: Developing leaders, growth, strategy, operations, and full P/L responsibility.
- Chief Integration Officer for a statewide health system with annual revenue of $2.3 billion. Supported the integration of 5 regional healthcare delivery systems to move a unified statewide delivery system. Focus: Facilitating and coaching executive leadership teams from multiple regional functions, including regional presidents, as we integrated functions across the system.
- Chief Administrative Officer for medical group, owned by a health system, with more than 1000 providers. Focus: Co-lead integration efforts to bring together multiple regional medical groups into statewide integrated medical group which entailed facilitating and coaching physician executives and other executives to lead through change in their markets.
- Vice President of Operations and Process Excellence for integrated healthcare system focused on transformational change. Focus: Coaching executive leaders to create a culture of continuous improvement within their areas of responsibility and across functional areas.
- Vice President of Process Excellence for a large insurance company seeking to create transformational change among its executive leaders. Focus: Coaching executive leaders to create a culture of continuous improvement in order to become a more integrated and effective organization.
Board Experience
Current Roles:
- Board Member - First Citizens Bank; Mason City, Iowa
- Member - Iowa State University, Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Advisory Council; Ames, Iowa
Past Board Roles:
- Board Member & Board Chair - North Iowa Corridor Economic Development Corporation; Mason City, Iowa
- Board Member - United Way of North Central Iowa; Mason City, Iowa
- Board Member - Mason City Surgery Center; Mason City, Iowa
- Board Member - Wellmark Value Health Plan; Des Moines, Iowa
- Board Member - Mercy West Surgery Center; West Des Moines, Iowa
- Board Member - River Hills Surgery Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Education
Bachelors of Science in Industrial Engineering - 1985
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa
Masters in Business Administration - 1989
Drake University
Des Moines, Iowa
.