McGovern Executive Search
Transformational Leadership Redefining Healthcare’s Future

The U.S. healthcare system is at a crossroads. More so than any other industry, healthcare has been stubbornly resistant to change. While the promise and potential of value-based care have been highly touted over the past ten-plus years, the industry’s shift from fee-for-service—or volume-to-value—has been slow and largely driven by a handful of more progressive payers as well as CMS incentive programs. In fact, the pandemic laid bare how woefully dependent most healthcare delivery systems remain on volume, regardless of the lip service they had paid to value-based care. The impending need is to identify truly disruptive and transformational leaders committed to moving toward The Quadruple Aim: reducing the cost of care while improving the quality, patient, and clinician experience.

McGovern Executive Search has dedicated two decades to unearthing leaders with the courage and capabilities to address this compelling need.

“Our practice prides itself on aligning with healthcare leaders and organizations interested in transforming the U.S. healthcare system,” says Steve McGovern, president and CEO, McGovern Executive Search.

Its team caters to three major healthcare segments; providers, payers, and digital health organizations. While all three segments face distinct executive recruitment challenges in the current market, the need for leaders who have a deep appreciation and understanding of the industry’s complexities, as well as the desire and ability to drive change through risk-averse, bureaucratic legacy organizations is a unifying element.

McGovern Executive Search’s team develops a comprehensive understanding of their clients, hiring managers, talent acquisition partners, and candidates to efficiently and effectively draw searches to a successful conclusion. The firm prides itself on having a 93 percent search completion rate since 2011, with most searches completed within 50 to 100 days. The team presents the ultimately selected finalist candidate to clients within the first 30 days, over 80 percent of the time.

The majority of candidates McGovern Executive Search recruits go on to have lengthy and highly impactful tenures working for their client companies. The firm focuses more on the quality of its search and vetting efforts as opposed to the quantity of searches they manage. They don’t believe revenue and volume should be measures of success for any search firm.

“We’d rather do fewer searches more efficiently with greater attention to detail than take on client engagements we can’t effectively handle,” adds McGovern.

McGovern is committed to finding transformational leaders who will champion a wellness-focused industry committed to more health and wellness and less sick care.