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The Healing Trust : Board Member

Women Business Leaders of the US Health Care Industry Foundation (WBL) : Member

The Ohio State University School of Communication : Advancment Board Member

Inside the Healthcare Industry: The Critical Role of Medical Coding, Billing & Nurse Review

Inside the Healthcare Industry: Challenges Facing Investors, Lenders, and Leaders of Behavioral Health Companies

Inside the Healthcare Industry: The Impact of Human Factors & User Experience in Healthcare

Inside the Healthcare Industry: The Growing Importance of Intellectual Property Valuations

Inside the Healthcare Industry: Understanding Emerging Data Privacy & Security Risks and Regulations

AHLA Takeaway: Healthcare Executives, Is Your House In Order?

The Rise of Hospital Government Relations: How Does Your Organization Stack Up?

Magi Curtis has spent her career in healthcare, in both the policy and business sides of the industry. She specializes in helping healthcare executives through significant times of challenge and/or change so they can transform their organizations and achieve their business goals.

Magi has guided some of the nation’s leading health systems and provider-based organizations as they navigated enterprise level change management initiatives, strategic partnerships and post-merger integration, strategic positioning, government relations and significant issue campaigns, crisis events, and internal and external engagement efforts. She has also worked closely with the founders of emerging healthcare companies to scale their business and establish operational structures to maximize productivity and enable growth.

Prior to joining J.S. Held, Magi was a partner at a top national healthcare consulting firm (Jarrard, Phillips, Cate & Hancock, part of Chartis), where she built, grew and led their practice that served all of the firm’s national and academic health system clients across the country. Magi also worked in D.C. in health policy as a staffer in the U.S. Senate, at Navigant Consulting, and the Children’s Hospital Association.

Magi is a graduate of The Ohio State University. She is a member of Women Business Leaders in the U.S. Healthcare Industry (WBL), and she serves on the boards for The Healing Trust and The Ohio State University School of Communication.

Magi is a frequent contributor to industry publications, such as those for the Governance Institute and O’Dwyer’s

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The Rise of Hospital Government Relations

Wave of Outrage: Payers Lie Low After CEO's Shocking Death Sparks Public Backlash

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Department of Health Policy

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management

Healthcare Practice Retreat

Illinois Hospital Association

American Health Care Lawyers Association

Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania

Middle Tennessee State University

Healthcare Law and Compliance

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The Art of Change is a collection of original journalism, Q&As and essays reflecting the sharpest thinking from around healthcare on the need for change in the industry - and how leaders can drive and sustain change in their organizations. Here, Magi Curtis previews Volume III: Vision

Absolutely a vision should be aspirational. People want to be inspired, they want to know that they're going to be part of something that is bigger than them. The tactics are how you achieve the aspiration. But the tactics aren't the vision.

Who sets the vision? I think every leader has a different interpretation of who should set the vision. In my mind, where I think it works best, I think that it is leadership's role to set the vision. In particular, the CEO. I think strong CEOs engage their executive team to help formulate it, but the vision has to be set at the top. And then you have to empower your people to make it a reality. The CEO should also be informed by the collective thinking of the board.

So the vision is step one, right? And the vision needs to paint a picture of where we can be, where we want to be at our greatest, in the future. And the thing that has to come right after the vision is a little bit of honesty about where we are today. And the actions that we take as leaders need to reinforce the vision that we're going after. And so I think there needs to be that moment of honesty, after a vision is articulated to say, this is where we want to be but here's what we're going to have to change to make that happen. And then truly embrace that. 

The thing that resonated most with me in the Michael Carroll piece was when he called out a quote, "If you don't know where you're going, you're lost." And that's not it. It's really "if you don't know where you are your lost." I think that that is it absolutely paramount for leaders to recognize, because it is sometimes just as important to not only know what the big inspirational vision is that you're driving towards, but if you don't know where you are today, you can't figure out how to get there.

Art of Change Volume III: Creating a Vision for Healthcare Organizations, with Magi Curtis

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