Leading Healthcare with Purpose and Strategy: A Thought Leadership Exploration - on demand

Request Dawn Plested's Consulting Assistance

Dawn has an extensive background in healthcare management and consulting. She has experience in operations leadership, value-based purchasing arrangements and innovative payment models, strategic planning, risk and compliance, marketing and communications, employee and physician engagement and management, and policy and procedure development. She has worked with private practices, hospital-based systems, rural health clinics and FQHCs.     

Dawn has an MBA with an emphasis in healthcare and international leadership and a juris doctorate with a health law emphasis. She is licensed to practice law in Minnesota. She is trained in Alternative Dispute Resolution as a mediator and arbitrator. She has spent more than 15 years in a variety of healthcare leadership roles. Her education combined with her broad experience in operations, finance, policy, leadership, marketing, communications and public relations has given her a unique skill set healthcare. This skill set, combined with her experience and education, makes her uniquely qualified to provide expertise in a consulting role.   

Request Shawntea "Taya" Gordon's Consulting Assistance

Taya Gordon received her Executive MBA in Healthcare Management at Creighton University, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude.

She is a subject matter expert (SME) in healthcare compliance, organizational governance, process optimization, and revenue cycle management. Having held senior level executive management positions in private practices, collaborative institutes, and national care coordination organizations, Taya now educates and consults on all areas of healthcare operations. Teaching and consulting topics including performance improvement, quality improvement, risk reduction, and the shift to value-based payment methodologies. Taya also functions as Chief Revenue Officer for H4 Technology, LLC, a Data Management Software as a Service (DMSaaS) organization providing services to hundreds of providers across the nation.

A proud member of the Medical Group Management Association's (MGMA’s) Government Affairs Council and E/M Workgroup, Taya co-authored the MGMA publications Revenue Cycle Management: Don’t Get Lost in the Financial Maze and Advanced Strategy for Medical Practice Leaders, Financial Management Edition. Her thoughts on the innovative use of people and IT was included in the HIMSS Voices of Innovation Publication in 2019 coordinated by the Cleveland Clinic and she is a noted speaker and/or author for organizations such as HealthLeaders Media, the Practice Management Institute (PMI), MGMA, and Medical Economics.

Taya is the Past President of the HIMSS Nebraska Chapter, former Chair of the Membership and Corporate Development Maryland MGMA Chapter, and was recognized in 2019 by Midland’s Business Journal as a ‘40 Under 40’ Executives & Entrepreneurs Award Recipient.

Passionate about physician advocacy, community outreach and healthcare improvement processes, she has volunteered in several terms on government affairs and legislative committees lobbying for healthcare improvement and various committees with Habitat for Humanity Omaha.