Leading Through Healthcare Chaos: How Executives Make Decisions When the Playbooks Fail

Healthcare executives are operating in sustained chaos—AI hype cycles, workforce instability, cyber risk, regulatory pressure, and technology debt colliding at once. Traditional leadership models assume time, clarity, and alignment. None of those are available.

In this session, Nathan Tierney, former VA Deputy CIO and Chief People Officer, breaks down how effective leaders actually make decisions when information is incomplete, pressure is high, and consequences are real. Drawing from federal-scale transformation, healthcare IT failures, and field-tested leadership frameworks, this session focuses on judgment, prioritization, and execution—not buzzwords.

Participants will leave with a practical decision framework they can use immediately in boardrooms, crisis meetings, and transformation efforts.