About Us
Trailhead Strategic Solutions
. . . brings together the work we're doing in a number of areas - all focused on helping physicians, physician leaders, and healthcare teams to thrive.
Every challenge is a journey. Success requires you to lean on past experiences, find clarity in the chaos, and deploy practical solutions.
Strategy and operations are important, but you need to navigate team and organizational dynamics - often the real barriers to success.
How do you do all of this while staying connected to your values, embracing the journey, and creating a powerful sense of team?
This is the part of the journey that excites us.
Bryan J. Warren
My Story
I started my career in hospitals and clinics. I led rehabilitation programs, working collaboratively with administrators, physicians, nurses and front line staff.
I then spent a few years teaching a graduate-level course on the U.S. Healthcare System. I gained experience with curriculum design, including work with the faculty who created the innovative "problem-based" teaching model at the McMaster Medical School in Canada.
As an attorney, I represented physicians in their relationships with hospitals at a time when the foundation of this relationship was changing. I worked with state medical societies to successfully advocate for reform of West Virginia's medical malpractice laws. I assisted financial institutions, public entities, and religious organizations with mergers and acquisitions, litigation, and various regulatory, technology/internet, and employment law matters. In addition to invaluable business experiences, I learned that I enjoy working closely with clients to solve complex strategic problems.
I then joined a dynamic, orthoapedic consulting firm, that would eventually become part of Zimmer-Biomet. I led a team that designed and deployed comprehensive service line strategic plans for over 100 U.S., and international, health systems. My area of focus was finding alignment between hospitals and physicians. I enjoyed providing guidance on the complex market, operational and financial data, but where I thrived was finding paths to partnership - even when the relationship had been historically contentious. I became a student of the organizational and leadership dynamics that are the real barrier to success, and developed deliberate methods to improve them.
It became apparent to me that healthcare had neglected the concepts of leadership, team, culture, and talent . So - I joined a leading human capital management firm, and helped to bring innovative talent strategies, tools and technologies to healthcare. We quickly developed a market leadership position.
After assisting with the sale of Select International to PSI (now Talogy), the world's largest testing and assessment company, I've dedicated the past few years to creating innovative approaches to linking strategy and operations, to leadership, culture, and team.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS/EDUCATION
President, J3P Healthcare Solutions
VP/Corporate Counsel - Select International/PSI
VP/Corporate Counsel - Zimmer-Biomet/Accelero Health Partners
Attorney - Phillips, Gardill, Kaiser, and Altmeyer
Director - Genesis ElderCare, Rehability Corp, and Wheeling Hospital
J.D., Duquesne University School of Law
M.S., Boston University
B.S., Juniata College
The Value of Partnership
Activ8 Health, LLC, a subsidiary of Phoenix Health Care Management Services, Inc., is the premier platform built by health professionals for health professionals.
I'm fortunate to be able to lean on a few outstanding partners who provide industry leading technology and expertise.
Rali is a comprehensive change experience platform. Coupled with intelligent analytics, Rali translates interaction into valuable insight, helping you realize a faster time to impact and lasting change.
LeadershipForward is focused on equipping leaders and leadership teams with the tools to enact real and lasting change.
Turnkey Adaptrack-powered AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ from clinician experiences.
AHI provides expert guidance to health systems and physician groups, with a particular focus on orthopaedic service line strategy.
SAMPLE PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
Employed Physicians – What Does Success Look like? HealthStream Workforce Advisor, August, 2015
The New Physician Employment Model, HR Pulse, publication of the American Society of Healthcare Human Resources Administration, Summer, 2013
Productivity and Accountability: The Metrics, Process, Structure and Governance Necessary for a Successful Collaboration, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, September, 2012, Co-author.
Orthopaedic Trauma Career and Employment Horizons: Identification of Career Destination and Opportunities, Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, Volume 26, Number 9 Supplement, September. 2012, Co-author.
Culture – The Leader’s Role in Building It, Sustaining It, and Understanding its Impact on the Patient, and Organizational Success, Becker’s Hospital Review, Annual Conference, April 17-20, 2017, Chicago, Illinois (Co-Presenting with John Sheehan, President, the American Center, University of Wisconsin Health)
Building a New Hospital, and a New Culture – Lessons Learned, People in Healthcare Conference, Feb. 6-10, 2017, San Diego, California, Illinois (Co-Presenting with Mark Sevco, President and CEO, UPMC East)
Understanding and Developing Physician Leadership Competencies, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center International Healthcare Management Program, July 11, 2016
Building a Collaborative Senior Team in a Time of Change – the Impact of Leadership Competencies on Organizational Effectiveness, Becker’s Hospital Review, Annual Conference, May 7-9, 2015, Chicago, Illinois (Co-Presenting with Donna Katen-Bahensky, President, University of Wisconsin Health Hospitals and Clinics)