Center for HealthCare Governance - Speaker

Larry W. Walker
President, The Walker Company

Larry Walker is the President of the Walker Company, a Lake Oswego, Oregon-based health care management consulting firm. The Walker Company specializes in governance development, market research, leadership retreats and strategic planning for hospitals and other health care organizations.

Larry served for six years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of 107-bed Mt. Hood Medical Center. He has also been a trustee of Portland, Oregon’s Legacy Health System and two of its predecessor organization’s Healthlink and Metropolitan Hospitals. The Walker Company has conducted strategic planning, market research, governance development and leadership workshops and retreats for hospitals and other health care organizations throughout the U.S.

The Walker Company provides a comprehensive array of governance development services. The company’s governance education series, Trustee Foundations™, offers both in-person and Web-based trustee leadership development programming on a broad range of topics, from governance basics to comprehensive workshops and programs on leading trends and “hot topics” that require board of trustees’ understanding and leadership. Trustee Foundations™ is part of the Walker Company’s GovernanceWORKS™ service, a broad-based package of governance development services that also includes governance organization audits, board self-assessment and trustee recruitment. In addition, the Walker Company publishes Governance Insider™, a quarterly electronic newsletter for boards of trustees that features practical tools and insights on health care trends and current happenings.

The company’s leadership workshops and retreats feature comprehensive pre-planning and preparation, meeting support tools and materials, meeting facilitation, development of comprehensive, action-focused reports, and follow-up consultation on next steps.

The company’s market research services include online and written employee opinion and employee benefit surveys, client surveys, medical staff opinion and needs surveys, and community attitudes and needs assessments.

Strategic planning services include development or review of mission, values and vision, environmental assessments, demographic research, determination of strategic assets and liabilities, and development of goals, strategies, objectives and key performance indicators.

Presentation/Facilitation Topics

  • Ethics
  • Governance
  • Boardroom Basics – Board Roles and Responsibilities
  • Governance Audit & Development
  • Health Care Trends & Implications
  • Ethics & Accountability
  • Quality & Patient Safety
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Mission, Values and Vision Development
  • Board Self-Assessment
  • Governance Succession Planning
  • CEO Compensation & Performance Evaluation
  • CEO/Bd. Relationships
  • Public Trust/Community Relations
  • Workforce Issues & Development

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