Kimberly Cook

Healthcare's Keeping Problem: Executive Retention in Healthcare Leadership

No. of episodes

3

Latest episode

2026-09-22

Where can you listen?

Healthcare's Keeping Problem: Executive Retention in Healthcare Leadership is a show for the people who hire healthcare leaders — CHROs, chief people officers, COOs, CEOs, and boards — and for those who live with the consequences when a hire doesn't last. Host Kimberly Cook, MPH spent more than a decade inside healthcare organizations watching good leaders arrive qualified and leave sooner than anyone expected. Now she gets honest about why it happens.

Every episode digs into the real story of executive retention in healthcare: why being qualified is only the price of admission, what actually predicts whether a leader stays, why retention was never all on the leader, and what the search industry won't tell you.

And in a recurring segment you won't find anywhere else — The Exit Interview — real healthcare leaders share, anonymously, what they would have said on the way out. If anyone had asked.

If you've ever watched a good leader walk out the door, or been the leader who walked sooner than anyone expected, you already know why this matters.

New episodes weekly.