We Partner With Boards to Ensure Great Leadership

Boards of healthcare, insurance, life sciences companies, academic institutions and related organizations face complex challenges in today’s business environment as a result of increasing regulation, intense scrutiny on costs and a volatile economy. Board leaders must have sophisticated skill sets, while managing existing board members and nurturing prospective ones.

The Witt/Kieffer Board Services practice focuses on recruiting board members as well as providing succession planning and leadership development for governing boards. Witt/Kieffer has partnered with healthcare, insurance, academic and other industries for more than 40 years to ensure a smooth transfer of leadership. We are trusted advisors to search committees in hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, managed care plans and insurers, life sciences companies, colleges and universities and other not-for-profit organizations, and manage a seamless process.

We support boards seeking high performing trustees who are qualified and committed to steward an organization’s mission and vision. We also present educational programs on a wide variety of topics geared to trustee development.

Jim Gauss, Chairman of Board Services, has participated in more than 700 executive search consulting engagements for some of the nation’s leading community hospitals and health systems, academic medical centers, physician group practices, not-for-profit associations and other health related organizations. As chairman of the firm’s board services practice, Jim focuses on recruiting board members as well as providing succession planning and management for boards.

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