WEBINAR | The Rise of Interim Executives and Professionals in the Healthcare Workplace

Monte Weirman, CPA, Managing Partner of Healthcare; and Deb Gordon, Senior Managing Director of Healthcare, Korn Ferry. As the workforce shifts before our eyes, healthcare professionals are embracing a global trend: the rise of the interim worker. Akin to the gig economy, interim work is a viable career path in today’s medical fields. Healthcare employers are engaging interim experts in nearly every function imaginable. Interim solutions are a rapidly-growing, strategic approach to solve critical issues and fill talent gaps. More than ever before, short-term engagements fulfilled by outside experts and leaders are making a remarkable difference on care, operations and revenue. This intro-to-interim session covers:

• who is hiring interim support and the value they report,
• who is making career choices to work on interim assignments and why,
• success stories about on-demand professionals from managers through the C-suite; from IT to operations.

Why now? The healthcare industry is rapidly evolving in the not-for-profit, for-profit, proprietary sectors as well as Government-funded programs.  Health organizations across the U.S. have focused on developing their health ecosystems.  Emerging competition and tech innovations are crucial to strategic success; as well as finding more convenient approaches to provide consumers with improved health outcomes and coordinated services.  Additionally, advancements and innovations have reduced overall costs, as well as expand access through digital portals, virtual health tools, value-driven care innovations, and improving customer satisfaction within health systems.

Interim leadership responds and adapts to market threats and opportunities to achieve alignment, prioritize challenges from multiple categories (finance, quality, workforce), set priorities, and drive rapid decision-making.  In order to achieve a progressive health ecosystem, it is critical to have access to expertise and resources to support operations and accelerate transformation and innovation initiatives to advance new partnerships, new value creation, and service personalization.  High-quality interim professionals add an extra dimension to clients’ total talent strategy, enriching the workforce alongside permanent employees, contingent contractors and outsourced functions.

A strategic move: hiring the interim professional

Incorporating interim professionals into talent management strategies