Executive Search Insights
Two decades of perspective on healthcare leadership, governance, executive search, and the business of healthcare.
Professional Services & Executive Search
An examination of Weil Gotshal's proposed dissolution and why the professionals doing the work, not the logo, determine the value of professional services.
Read Insight →Boards & Governance
A CEO's guide to a productive board relationship, clear governance boundaries, and accountability in health plans and risk-bearing provider organizations.
Read Insight →Healthcare Leadership
What health plans and risk-bearing provider organizations should expect from physician leaders beyond clinical credibility: enterprise judgment, collaboration, and accountability.
Read Insight →Executive Search
Nine questions that expose the gap between the sales pitch and the search you actually receive. A candid look at healthcare executive search.
Read Insight →September 3, 2026
When collaboration strengthens a decision and when it becomes a way to avoid accountability.
Read Insight →August 11, 2026
Why healthcare organizations repeatedly underestimate industry experience when selecting senior leaders.
Read Insight →May 7, 2026
Why prolonged executive vacancies are often a process problem rather than a talent-market problem.
Read Insight →May 5, 2026
What separates functional expertise from true enterprise leadership in the healthcare C-suite.
Read Insight →January 10, 2026
Why constructive disagreement, clear authority, and accountable leadership matter.
Read Insight →December 23, 2025
Common governance failures and the interventions that restore accountability.
Read Insight →November 4, 2025
The idea of physicians leading complex healthcare organizations is hardly new, but in 2025, it has re-emerged as one of the industry’s most urgent and debated questions.
Read Insight →November 1, 2025
What effective healthcare leadership requires, and why courage matters more than credentials.
Read Insight →October 21, 2025
Talent acquisition in healthcare isn’t just a process problem; it’s a leadership challenge.
Read Insight →September 30, 2025
Healthcare organizations (both health plans and health systems) operate in one of the most complex, high-stakes environments in the economy.
Read Insight →September 15, 2025
Leadership in health plans is already a high-wire act, balancing regulatory pressure, medical cost inflation, risk adjustment scrutiny, government program compliance, and member retention.
Read Insight →August 30, 2025
Is the steady flow of leaders from one Blue plan to another, the "Blues’ Shuffle", ultimately good or bad for plans, members, and the brand?
Read Insight →August 28, 2025
Employer healthcare costs are accelerating at a pace that threatens the balance of coverage, affordability, and sustainability.
Read Insight →August 17, 2025
Introduction Executive turnover is one of the most expensive and destabilizing risks a healthcare organization can face.
Read Insight →August 13, 2025
Fee-for-service (FFS) payment models still dominate Medicare Part B and much of Medicare Advantage.
Read Insight →August 5, 2025
How pharmacy incentives drive costs, and what health plans can do to improve affordability.
Read Insight →August 3, 2025
"No margin, no mission” is a fair mantra. But in 2025, the public and policymakers are asking whether nonprofit health systems and health plans are truly earning the value of their tax preferences or if the “halo” has outpaced the community benefit delivered.
Read Insight →July 29, 2025
Preface: I know, as some of you read this, you're going to be thinking, 'McGovern, aren't you just an executive recruiter? Stay in your lane.' And I get that.
Read Insight →July 25, 2025
Introduction: In a year defined by sweeping legislation, volatility, regulatory shifts, razor-thin margins, and rising workforce burnout, health plan and provider executives face a leadership moment unlike any other.
Read Insight →July 22, 2025
In today’s volatile healthcare landscape, leadership continuity isn’t a luxury - it’s a strategic necessity.
Read Insight →July 16, 2025
Best practices for healthcare board composition, oversight, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.
Read Insight →July 14, 2025
Consensus hiring - that is, making recruitment decisions by committee until “everyone’s okay” - sounds inclusive.
Read Insight →July 9, 2025
Senior executive turnover has surged across all industries in recent years, but the healthcare sector faces particularly acute challenges.
Read Insight →June 24, 2025
There’s no shortage of opinions on Medicare Advantage. But beneath the politics and noise, two recent data-driven studies cut through with sharp clarity - one from AHIP and another from Health Services Research - and they paint a more complex picture than the usual headlines allow.
Read Insight →June 21, 2025
If you’re a senior healthcare leader actively searching for a new role, chances are you've come across a tidal wave of advice on how to negotiate an executive compensation package.
Read Insight →June 19, 2025
Regional, not-for-profit health plans are a vital counterbalance to the dominance of national, publicly traded insurers.
Read Insight →June 18, 2025
Why healthcare executive search still demands a human touch - despite the AI hype.
Read Insight →June 4, 2025
Since 2014, we’ve partnered with health plans, provider groups, and digital health organizations nationwide to recruit senior executives committed to improving quality, lowering costs, and elevating patient and clinician experience.
Read Insight →August 8, 2024
In the past 20+ years I've spent helping healthcare organizations build high-performing leadership teams, my firm has been brought in to replace executive mishires on countless occasions.
Read Insight →July 19, 2023
One positive development we’ve observed over the past sixteen months is our clients’ -- healthcare payers, providers, and technology organizations -- receptivity to prioritizing internal candidates for senior leadership roles.
Read Insight →June 18, 2021
Nearly every time Amazon, Apple, Google , et al. announce some new venture into the healthcare space, my inbox and phone blow up.
Read Insight →April 30, 2021
A senior physician executive at a large Blues plan recently reminded me of Peter Drucker’s timeless quote.
Read Insight →January 24, 2021
I spend most of my days as the principal of my healthcare executive search firm on the phone with seasoned industry leaders.
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