CEO Circle: 2025 Healthcare Leadership Conference
November 10-12, 2025
Washington, D.C.
Engage Directly with Health System Leaders
THMA’s CEO Circle brings together senior executives from independent health systems and leaders from the nation’s most innovative healthcare companies for candid, action-driven discussions on the challenges shaping our industry. For over 25 years, we’ve designed intimate, member-led environments where executives tackle real-time issues, share best practices, and form lasting strategic partnerships.
With a strict 1:1 health system-to-industry ratio and limited seats available, apply now to be considered for participation in the upcoming CEO Circle.
Health System Forum Members
What Sets CEO Circle Apart
Member-Driven Content, Curated for CEOs: All our meetings are built around the priorities that matter most to today’s healthcare CEOs. Members shape forum content to reflect their top priorities, such as managing investments to improve care and building positive reputations.
The Right People, in the Right Room: Attendees include health system CEOs from independent health systems alongside key industry leaders - typically CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, and product and strategy executives. All participants are hand-selected based on their ability to contribute meaningfully to the conversation.
A Forum Built for Relationships: Reception-style dinners and informal social gatherings welcome friends and family and facilitate long-term relationship building.
True Partnership: This is a peer-to-peer forum. The industry executives who attend want to listen, contribute insights, and build lasting connections with independent health system CEOs facing who gather to collaborate on both challenges and opportunities.
The THMA Difference Lies in Access, Intentional Design, and a Strict Focus on Community
The CEO Circle creates a purpose-built space for executive-level engagement with innovative health systems with less than $100M in total operating revenue. Every session, social setting, and touchpoint is curated to foster meaningful, candid dialogue between fellow health system CEOs and select industry innovators, most commonly CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, and strategic product leaders.
Industry Forum Members
Agenda topics will include:
Enhancing Brand Building and Advocacy: Crafting Impactful Messages for Key Stakeholders: This session will dive into strategies to swiftly navigate challenges, reinforce trust with patients, staff, and the community, and build organizational resilience. Whether faced with a public health challenge, a data protection opportunity, or service enhancement, building a positive reputation and fostering trust are essential skills for healthcare leaders.
An Innovation Mindset for Long-Term Revenue Diversification and Value: Organizations across the healthcare ecosystem are making significant investments in innovation for future sustainability and to continue to improve care. Industry leaders will discuss how they are evaluating and managing investments to improve care, affordability, and patient outcomes, and driving value via innovative collaborations.
Smarter Systems: Building an AI Strategy for Impact and Sustainability: As artificial intelligence rapidly evolves from buzzword to business imperative, health system executives face growing pressure to integrate AI in ways that drive meaningful value – not just innovation for innovation's sake. Organizations will share their practical takes on enterprise-level AI strategy that aligns clinical, operational, and sustainability goals.
The CEO Circle Experience
Each CEO Circle is a 2.5-day immersive experience with member-led sessions focusing on real-time challenges and forward-looking strategies. The Health Management Academy’s Fall 2025 CEO Circle provides original insights and analysis of today’s most pressing issues in revenue, patient care, and technology innovation.
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Upcoming Event Dates and Locations
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About The Health Management Academy
Since 1998, The Health Management Academy has cultivated the premier membership-based community of healthcare’s most influential CXOs from top U.S. health systems, as well as decision makers from innovative industry companies.
We cultivate exceptional peer groups, providing original market insights, world-class leadership development programs, and novel member alliances to more than 2,000 health system senior executives and 200 industry organizations.
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Health System Executives
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C-Suite Members
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