Bio:

As a subject matter expert, fractional executive and international speaker, Gail Zahtz enables health care organizations and individuals to move from a culture of sickness to one of value.  To guide organizations and leadership into value based health care success, Zahtz brings a unique blend of deep professional expertise in the current regulations and an inspirational personal story from homelessness and dying to transformational leadership.

Zahtz has founded and directed dozens of health related companies and initiatives over her career, serves as a subject matter expert for media and industry, advises on designing for health outcomes, and has won numerous awards including: Top 100 in Health Info Technology, Top 100 International Influencers in Health Online, Healthcare IT News' #HIT100, Recipient Walking Gallery of Healthcare, and Top 50 Most Influential Health Leaders. Her public health education campaigns have also been nationally recognized including being awarded the most influential public education campaign by the National Mental Health Association.

In addition to regularly delivering keynotes, as Managing Director of Zahtz Partners, she helps C-suite healthcare leaders as a fractional executive, value based care SME and workshop facilitator. The Zahtz Partners network deploys experts and solutions to boost healthcare payors, provider groups and investors in their successful shift to value based contracting.

As a survivor of late-stage cancer and of domestic violence, she personally shares her stories of how to survive and thrive despite the most challenging of circumstances to show a way forward to young women everywhere. She can be reached @gailzahtz on most major social media platforms.