CEO Forum: 2026 Healthcare CEO Leadership Conference
November 10-12, 2025
Washington, D.C.
Engage Directly with Health System Leaders
THMA’s CEO Forum 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.
Upcoming Event Dates and Locations
Join us at the upcoming CEO Forum. You can explore dates, locations, and agendas below.
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:
Innovation and Growth Strategy: Health system CEOs shared how they are building diversified revenue portfolios through strategic partnerships, service line innovation, and ecosystem collaboration. Sessions explored how leaders balance immediate financial pressures with long-term value creation and sustainable growth.
AI and Enterprise Transformation: Executives discussed how to move from pilot projects to scalable AI adoption, aligning technology with clinical, operational, and financial goals. Conversations focused on governance, workforce readiness, and measuring meaningful impact across the enterprise.
Building Trust and Culture in Leadership: Drawing lessons from the VA’s national transformation, members examined how health systems can rebuild trust with patients, employees, and communities. Leaders discussed actionable frameworks for culture change, communication, and stakeholder engagement.
Branding and Leadership Communication: CEOs and communication strategists explored the art of executive branding—crafting authentic, high-impact messages that resonate with internal and external audiences. The discussion emphasized how clear, consistent storytelling drives organizational alignment and public confidence.
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.
Our Convening Experiences
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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