THMA 2026 Executive Leadership & Governance Conferences
Engage directly with executive leadership and governance leaders
Chief executive officers and governance leaders of the nation’s leading health systems are faced with artificial intelligence governance and implementation, disrupted revenue streams, and workforce shortages. Chief Legal Executives are faced with aligning organizational initiatives with the complexities of changing federal mandates. Chief Human Resource Officers face talent acquisition and retention challenges. It’s a landscape of conflicting priorities and stressed budgets, and C-suite executives must find workable answers. THMA executive leadership and governance conferences offer a peer-driven environment that fosters meaningful dialogue, healthcare leadership, and actionable, innovative solutions that improve healthcare operations and governance.
2026 Executive Leadership & Governance Conference Dates
THMA’s 2.5-day leadership conference programs are held biannually in retreat-style environments that facilitate candid exploration of pressing healthcare leadership issues. These upcoming events provide space for senior healthcare leaders to connect, share insights, and strengthen strategic direction.
Health System Forum Members
People Strategy, Performance, and Advocacy
Cultural alignment, workforce integration, and operational continuity are some of the issues keeping Chief Human Resource Officers up at night. Experts will discuss building organizational resilience, fostering trust in healthcare leaders, and the CHRO role in successful CEO onboarding.
This session will take a deep dive into issues like workforce agility, succession planning, HR leadership and system integration before, during and after mergers.reinforcing how governance and patient experience intersect with strategy and care delivery.
Strategic Focuses for 2026
THMA’s 2026 forums bring seasoned healthcare and industry leaders together for an inside-Washington briefing and action-focused discussions on how evolving federal policies are reshaping health system operations, finances, governance, and revenue strategy.
AI for Strategy and Organizational Impact
The pace of adoption of artificial intelligence raises questions in healthcare. It is expensive to implement and challenging to integrate into environments where EPIC still plays a critical role. Executives know AI implementation must drive value. In these sessions, healthcare professionals will share their practical approach to enterprise-level AI strategies and how they aligned the technology with clinical, operational, and governance goals, reinforcing the importance of healthcare technology in organizational transformation.
Medicaid, Legal Issues, and Long-Term Revenue Diversification
These sessions will shine a light on emerging CMS issues like CMS regulatory action and litigation to limit states’ use of certain mechanisms to finance the non-federal share of Medicaid payments. We will explore the details of changing Chief Legal Executive roles, technology governance to mitigate legal risks, and managing investments for value and long-term revenue diversification. Discussions support executive directors, senior directors, and leaders shaping healthcare leadership strategy across complex organizations.
Who Attends Our Executive Leadership & Governance Conferences?
Some of the most experienced senior healthcare leaders from leading health systems in the US attend THMA executive leadership and governance conferences. Joined by select healthcare industry partners, members return annually for the frank and open discussions held behind closed doors. This is a highly curated, collaborative, member-led environment, built exclusively for the highest-level executive and governance leaders. seeking thought leadership, innovation, and meaningful community.
Executive Leadership & Governance Executives
CEOs, Chief Legal Executives, Chief Human Resources Officers, and Chief Philanthropy Officers attend to discuss issues, barriers, and opportunities with honesty and clarity. Those who have attended for years know that purposeful dialogue between peers in a dedicated, small-group environment can lead to innovative solutions that improve patient outcomes and organizational effectiveness. Select industry innovators, including Chief Growth Officers, strategic product leaders, and healthcare professionals, bring additional expertise to the conversation.
Healthcare Industry Executives
Senior healthcare executives with a wide web of long-lasting relationships tend to have faster access to information, resources, and real-time solutions. We bring industry executives to the conversation on a 1:1 ratio with health system leaders. The industry executives who attend our leadership conference sessions are there to listen, gain insights, contribute research-based perspectives, and build lasting connections rooted in shared goals and healthcare innovation.
Is a THMA Technology Conference Right for You?
We have opened seats and are seeking healthcare companies to join our community of health system financial decision-makers. You may be a good fit if you are:
Looking to develop long-term relationships with health system influencers and key decision makers, not just hit year-end target lead goals.
Providing an innovative solution designed to solve health system’s challenges
Passionate about sharing and absorbing industry knowledge and thought leadership
A Director or higher commercial role
An organization with $25M+ in annual operating revenue
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Executive Convening?
Executive Convening is The Health Management Academy’s in-person Forum platform that brings health system C-suite leaders together with a curated group of industry executives in small, peer-focused communities. Each Forum meets in 2.5-day, retreat-style events supported by year-round research, briefings, and debriefs that help members translate conversations into commercial and strategic action.
Who are these Executive Leadership & Governance Conferences designed for?
These conferences are built for health system C-suite leaders (CEOs, CHROs, Chief Legal Executives, Chief Philanthropy Officers, etc.) and a small, vetted group of industry executives whose solutions align with enterprise-level strategy and governance.
On the industry side, attendees are typically CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, senior commercial leaders, and strategy executives who need direct, peer-to-peer access to decision-makers—not just buyers in a single function.
How are these forums different from typical healthcare conferences or trade shows?
Unlike broad conferences or exhibit-hall events, these forums are closed-door, member-only gatherings with a strict health system–to–industry balance and no expo floor. The agendas are co-created with members, discussion-based, and intentionally structured to maximize peer learning and relationship-building, not transactional sponsorship moments.
What kinds of topics are covered across these leadership and governance conferences?
Content focuses on system-wide, board-level issues, such as:
- Governance, organizational structure, and succession planning
- Value-based care and total cost of care strategy
- Workforce, culture, and leadership development (CHRO / CEO)
- Policy, regulatory, and legal risk (CEO / Chief Legal / Strategy)
- Philanthropy and capital campaigns aligned to enterprise strategy
- AI, digital transformation, and innovation at the enterprise level
Sessions are built from real cases.
Who will I actually be in the room with?
Each conference convenes 25–40 executives from leading health systems, plus a limited number of industry executives who clear THMA’s fit criteria (strategic partnership focus, thought leadership, and enterprise alignment).
What is the role of industry participants at these events?
Industry members are treated as peers, not vendors. You’ll:
- Join working sessions, roundtables, and debriefs alongside health system leaders
- Share perspectives and case examples (where appropriate)
- Listen in on “how we really make decisions” conversations about governance, workforce, and enterprise strategy
- Build relationships that can evolve into strategic partnerships outside the room
The expectation is that industry attendees bring insight, not a pitch deck.
How do you ensure conversations are candid and not sales-driven?
All forums are closed to media, invite-only, and structured as health-system-first spaces. Discussion topics are sourced from health system members; industry attendees are there by virtue of strategic fit, not sponsorship alone.
That design and the small group size encourages executives to speak openly about failures, pressures, and real decision criteria.
Is there value beyond the in-person forum?
Yes. Membership includes access to the Executive Insights Hub, which provides:
- Quarterly market pulse briefings on CXO priorities
- Forum debriefs summarizing key themes from other C-suite communities (CEO, CFO, COO, CNE, CPE, etc.)
- Executive Edge newsletters with short takes on market-moving events
- On-demand “Healthcare Bootcamp” modules to ramp your broader team on health system economics and structures
This helps your commercial, strategy, and product teams translate what’s heard in the room into day-to-day execution.
Can my executives present or lead a session?
Industry members can submit abstracts to lead or co-lead sessions where they have a clearly valuable, non-promotional viewpoint (e.g., a joint case study with a health system partner, or market insights grounded in data).
Final agenda decisions are made by THMA in partnership with health system members to keep the content peer-driven and balanced.
How do these conferences help us advance our commercial strategy?
For industry companies, these forums are designed to:
- Clarify real CXO priorities so you can align your value proposition to governance, strategy, and workforce realities
- Shorten sales cycles by building trust well before an RFP appears
- Stress-test your messaging with senior leaders in a neutral, non-sales environment
- Translate complex issues like value-based care, policy change, and workforce strategy into clear commercial narratives your teams can carry into the field
Many members use forum insights and relationships to refine go-to-market strategy, targeting, and product roadmap for executive buyers.
How do you measure ROI for industry members?
THMA works with industry members to link forum participation to commercial metrics such as:
- New relationships and warm introductions with targeted CXOs
- Movement in active pipeline associated with executives who attend
- Increases in response rates, meeting rates, or deal velocity after events
- Retention and expansion of existing health system customers influenced by forum touchpoints
Are these conferences invitation-only? How do we know if we’re a fit?
Yes, Executive Leadership & Governance conferences are curated communities. Industry partners are selected based on:
- Alignment with health system strategic priorities
- Ability to contribute thought l