Last month, we had the pleasure of seeing many of our members in-person at the 2025 Strategy Catalyst Summit in Arlington, Va. Across two days of sessions and peer discussions, we tackled big picture issues like the shifting political environment, and more personal issues like career development and team organization. Overall, strategy executives from 28 health systems joined us for the event.

For this week’s Key Market Dive, we’re distilling our favorite insights from the Summit into four key lessons that we think our readers should digest. In some cases, we’ve anonymized anecdotes to ensure that participants feel free to have candid conversations at our events. For a higher-level summary of the sessions with slide decks included, you can also check out the post-Summit briefing that we published last week.