Leadership coaching represents the pinnacle of my career’s work. I didn’t plan it, exactly, but as I look back, nudges and hints were routinely coming my way. As my career moved from learning the ropes at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, to being president and CEO of a well-regarded Massachusetts health system, on to helping lead and teach at the Sloan Program in Health Services Administration graduate program at Cornell University, and later working in health care governance and executive search, I put those pieces together and found my calling.Each step in my career has provided opportunities for personal growth and satisfaction from knowing that I had helped organizations move the needle toward being more successful. Sometimes it has been the result of working with a committed health care board trying to adapt. At other times it has been the resolution of a seemingly unsolvable organizational challenge. And — in the most rewarding times for me — it has been the experience of helping an individual who is grappling with workplace challenges and has a desire to change.My clients will tell you that I help them understand context and have a more accurate view of their organizations; that I leave them better able to handle political environments and with the skills to build healthier relationships. They know how they can and should influence their organizations.I am a coach, mentor, and teacher. That means delivering objective and sometimes tough messages, but with the end result being that my clients have the skills and insights they need to shape their future.I thrive at fixing messy situations. I try to picture circumstances and put myself in others’ shoes so we can problem solve — side-by-side -— those complex and dicey workplace issues that impact people on both a professional and personal level. By understanding the relationship between individuals and their organizations, I work to help people get the unproductive stuff out of the way and to move forward.
Executive & Governing Board Leadership
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Founder And PrincipalExecutive & Governing Board LeadershipPhiladelphia, Pa, Us
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Founder & PrincipalExecutive & Governing Board Leadership 2000 - PresentGreater Philadelphia AreaI am privileged to focus my time on what I care about and believe I do well. With a primary focus on health care service organizations, I help individuals, organizations, and boards navigate complex issues and achieve higher levels of performance. My clients value that I bring a practical and realistic orientation to my work, while being skilled at managing highly sensitive situations. Exceptional listening skills and an ability to quickly assess how interactions among people within an organization are impacting performance allow me to apply leadership insights and take individuals and organizations to a new level. My client engagements have included:• Currently serve as executive coach to several CEOs of major academic health systems, leading community-based health systems, and a complex post-acute system. Also currently coaching CMOs and senior staff of similar organizations as well as those leading very large multi-specialty physician groups and insurance products. • Redesigned executive structure and recommended governance enhancements to largest and most complex medical society in the U.S., in project cited by CEO as “best use of consulting services we have ever had.”• Designed and executed successful intervention to rescue deteriorating relationship between talented CEO and experienced and equally talented governing board.• Negotiated agreement and created process to stabilize and enhance damaged relationship between municipality and acquirer of a not-for-profit hospital.• Served as organizational coach to faith-based system of five hospitals, supporting management in a variety of ways.• Designed trustee education curriculum, which became model for first statutorily required education program for health care directors in U.S.• Served in Director roles for Health Strategies & Solutions, a national health care strategy firm, and Right Management Consultants, the world’s leading career transition and organizational consulting firm.
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Managing DirectorDiversified Search 1996 - 2000Philadelphia, Pa -
Associate Director And Lecturer, Sloan Program In Health AdministrationCornell University 1993 - 1996Ithaca, Ny -
President And Chief Executive OfficerBerkshire Health Systems 1991 - 1993Pittsfield, Ma -
President And Chief Operating OfficerBerkshire Health Systems 1989 - 1991Pittsfield, Ma
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Executive/Senior Vice PresidentBerkshire Health Systems 1986 - 1989Pittsfield, Ma
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Vice President, OperationsBerkshire Health Systems 1985 - 1986
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Vice President, Professional ServicesBerkshire Health Systems 1983 - 1985Pittsfield, Ma
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Management AssociateMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 1980 - 1983New York, NyThe world’s leading cancer research and treatment center
Keith T. Pryor Education Details
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M.B.A. With Distinction, Johnson Graduate School Of Management -
Biology
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Keith T. Pryor attended Cornell University - Johnson Graduate School Of Management, University Of Connecticut.
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