Katie is a healthcare workforce strategist and operations executive with more than 20 years of experience transforming labor performance, workforce strategy, and financial results across complex healthcare organizations. Leveraging her unique background as a registered nurse and workforce executive, she enables health systems to solve complex challenges, maximize labor investments, and create sustainable workforce models that strengthen caregiver experience, improve patient outcomes, and drive long-term organizational success.
About Katie
Katie advises on workforce innovation and technology-enabled workforce transformation, specializing in workforce planning and optimization, productivity improvement, staffing strategy, and organizational transformation. She helps healthcare leaders balance clinical excellence, employee experience, and financial performance through data-driven workforce strategies that improve flexibility, operational efficiency, and long-term sustainability.
Throughout her career, Katie has delivered measurable results for some of the nation's largest healthcare organizations, including:
- Delivering $125 million in labor savings for a $20 billion health system with more than 25 hospitals, through a six-week enterprise workforce transformation focused on zero-based staffing builds, productivity goal setting, labor management strategies, and executive stakeholder alignment.
- Generated $130 million in savings through strategic workforce vendor negotiations and agency labor optimization across a multistate health system.
- Identified a $57 million nursing premium pay reduction opportunity and worked with executive leaders to realize $35 million in savings within six pay periods.
- Designed enterprise workforce forecasting and labor planning models for a 40,000-employee health system, enabling data-driven resource allocation and workforce strategy.
- Leading workforce optimization initiatives that generated more than $80 million in annual labor savings through productivity improvement, labor management, and operational discipline.
- Developing advanced labor analytics that strengthened executive decision making, recruitment planning, vacancy management, and labor strategy execution.
Prior to joining Huron, Katie served as System Vice President of Workforce Optimization and Strategic Workforce Operations at SSM Health, where she advised executive leaders on workforce strategy, financial performance, labor management, and organizational effectiveness across a multistate health system. Earlier in her career, she held leadership roles in quality, risk management, and workforce operations, providing a unique perspective that bridges frontline clinical care and enterprise strategy.
Katie is a member of the Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation and is committed to advancing workforce models that ensure long-term organizational resilience.