Jeff Hunter has extensive experience in healthcare leadership, strategy formulation and strategy deployment. He excels at helping individuals and teams build their capability to manage vision and purpose with strategic agility. He is the author of Patient-Centered Strategy: A Learning System for Better Care, published by Catalysis in 2018.
Jeff is on the faculty of Catalysis (formerly the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value), and the Donald J. Schneider School of Business and Economics at St. Norbert College. He is also a Strategic Planning Fellow for Sg2, a leading provider of health care intelligence, analytics, and consulting.
From 1991 until his retirement in 2015 Jeff was the Senior Vice President, Strategy and Marketing for ThedaCare, a community-sponsored healthcare system based in Appleton, Wisconsin. Prior to joining ThedaCare in 1991, he managed the consulting practice for Brim Healthcare in Portland, Oregon, and began his career in healthcare with Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center in Denver, Colorado.
Jeff received his B.S. in Economics (summa cum laude) from the University of Detroit and his M.A. in Health Services Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an active member of CI Squared (Continuous Improvement x Community Impact), a group of operational excellence practitioners that volunteer their skills to non-profit community agencies in Northeast Wisconsin.