
HEAL: How Project-Based Leaders Deliver High-Impact Results for Healthcare Organizations
In an era of rapid transformation, health systems, hospitals, and physician practices are grappling with increasingly pressing challenges: stringent cost control, revenue expansion, and intensifying competition. Navigating this intricate landscape requires a delicate balance and a highly skilled team.
These circumstances underscore the crucial need for resilient leaders — individuals with the agility, comprehensive understanding, and robust management skills to catalyze change. As strategic imperatives grow in quantity and complexity, many organizations are turning to outside adaptive leaders to complement their teams, close gaps in expertise and drive clear, impactful results.

Is adaptive leadership a viable option for organizational success? To answer that critical question, it’s important to understand the ways an adaptive leadership program can be implemented and the potential benefits it offers.
The Healthcare Executive Adaptive Leadership (HEAL™) Program
AMN Healthcare Leadership Solutions, including B.E. Smith, designed the HEAL program to equip organizations with the combination of executive talent and experience essential to confronting today’s top healthcare challenges head-on. HEAL combines our industry-leading advisory services with a focus on achieving defined results consistent with your goals.
Our HEAL leaders offer critical executive support in a range of traditional and non-traditional healthcare settings and are utilized to execute short and long-term strategic projects across a wide array of functions, including:
- Strategic Development and Planning
- Operational Improvement
- Financial Planning and Management
- Growth and Business Development
- Change and Transition Management, Merger Integration
- Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance
- Workforce Management
- Digital Transformation
Achieving Substantial and Sustained Benefits
Engagements within the HEAL Program are project-based, providing your organization with the flexible support of leaders—ranging from Vice President to C-Suite levels—without the need to fill executive vacancies. With years of industry experience, HEAL leaders bring trusted insight, maturity, and unique perspectives to adapt to your evolving business goals while making an immediate impact.
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Built on a framework of flexibility and action, projects are on-demand with your choice of engagement length and remote, on-site, or hybrid location options. Each criteria is carefully assessed to efficiently match you with a HEAL candidate in as little as 48 hours, whose capabilities align with your unique culture, goals, and objectives—and ready to deliver substantial and sustained benefits for your organization:
- Agility and Resilience: Flexibility to engage and modulate use of outside leaders in response to rapid change.
- Scalability: Add experienced leadership resources when and where needed.
- Budget-Friendly: Defined, project-based pricing allows for budget certainty, minimizes fixed costs, and compares favorably to large-scale consulting firms.
- Transformative Impact: HEAL Leaders catalyze change, preserve strategic momentum, and prevent key project delays.
- Objective, Independent Perspective: As external leaders, our adaptive experts provide an unbiased perspective, unburdened by internal politics or ingrained patterns of thinking.
- Leadership Augmentation: Address skills, knowledge, or capacity gaps to evolve your team.
AMN Healthcare Leadership Solutions is the largest provider of interim leadership, physician, and executive search services, with a powerful track record of diverse placements across all specialty areas. We help organizations realize strategic objectives for patient care, growth, and innovation.
For more information on Healthcare Executive Adaptive Leadership, click the link below and discover how AMN Healthcare Leadership Solutions can empower your leadership agility.
Additional Executive Leadership Resources
While you continue your executive leadership job search, keep in mind that AMN Healthcare provides great support for our candidates. Begin the application process now, and then access the links below to learn how AMN Healthcare supports your advancement in healthcare.
- Interim Executive Jobs: A great option for temporary, interim jobs while you continue your permanent job search (or if you simply want to explore what's out there) .
- Permanent Executive Jobs: Great executive jobs in great locations. Full onboarding and support while you get up-to-speed in your new position.
- EAP: Our interims gain access to a valuable set of Employee Assistance Program benefits.
- Search All Leadership Jobs: Uncover new possibilities in your career by exploring both short and long-term options and permanent choices.
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