After years spent working alongside boards and senior leaders within complex health systems, Alison Lemay has repeatedly seen how the right leadership teams create the best hospitals and health systems for patients and caregivers alike. She focuses on building patient-centered, values-driven leadership teams that strengthen culture and deliver lasting impact within healthcare organizations.
As a consultant in Spencer Stuart’s Healthcare Practice, Alison brings distinctive firsthand experience in hospital operations, patient experience and system-level transformation to the search process. From past senior operational leadership roles, she has proven insight into the qualities that differentiate successful leaders, and understands what it truly takes to lead hospitals and healthcare systems beyond the simple job description. She assesses candidates not only for technical expertise, but for their ability to build culture, lead through complexity and improve outcomes. Alison is known for helping organizations identify leaders who can translate strategy into operational results while keeping patients at the center of decision-making.
Executive level searches for hospitals and health systems
- At Mass General Brigham, Alison was a senior advisor to the COO and executive leadership team, providing counsel and acting as a thought partner on key strategic decisions.
- At UMass Memorial Medical Center, she led the design and rollout of an enterprise governance framework and a system-wide crisis communication strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Prior years spent as a chief of staff have shaped a disciplined, thoughtful approach to process design in Alison, ensuring her search strategy is efficient, rigorous and impactful.
Alison holds a Master of Public Health in health policy and management from Boston University and a Bachelor of Science in biology from Providence College.