Scaling Up: Expert Guidance to Sustainable Growth

Request Katie Lawrence's Consulting Assistance

Katie Lawrence has nearly 20 years of experience in executive leadership and change management. Her passion is simple: to partner with leaders to create organizational cultures where team members, leaders, and the business itself all flourish together.

Katie has deep industry experience in healthcare, yet the skills and systems she teaches cut across all industries to shape resilient leaders and teams. Today’s working world requires knowledge of tools and techniques for excelling in leadership while avoiding burnout and personal exhaustion. She provides insight and inspiration for confidence among leaders of all experience levels. Her energy is palpable – whether the audience is live in the room or streaming through a computer screen. She provides real life examples to connect concepts to action, empowering leaders with tools they can put into use immediately.

Katie has spent the majority of her career fostering growth in the Prisma Health medical group through escalating leadership roles that have crossed clinical departments and geography. Managing through partnerships and influence, Katie leads projects that focus on improving all aspects of the Quadruple Aim: patient experience, clinical quality, cost management, and provider/employee experience. 

Katie is the principal consultant with Willow Strategy Group. Willow Strategy Group partners with healthcare organizations and individual leaders to enhance culture, leadership skills, and interpersonal dynamics. She holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Spanish from Furman University and a Masters in Health Administration from the Medical University of SC. She has presented to audiences of all sizes through webinars and at conferences and events across the country.

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.