Keynote Speaker/Author/Coach/Facilitator

jeff whitehorn,

MBA, LFACHE, ACC

TOPICS - • Burnout • Challenge • Coaching

• Culture • Employee Engagement • Employee Training

• Executive Coaching • Healthcare • Leadership

• Retention

jeff whitehorn - PROGRAMS

  • Culture CPR: Administer Immediately in Order to Invigorate Culture and Boost Employee Retention
  • Beyond the Textbook: Real-world Leadership Lessons They Don’t Teach You in School
  • Today’s Leadership Outlook: Five Critical Trends Facing Today’s Leaders
  • Surviving Burnout and Other Critical Leadership Lessons They Don’t Teach you in School
  • Transforming Your Executive Presence into Your Competitive Advantage
  • New Leader Boot Camp: Master These Five Skills First

“Jeff is an inspiring, engaging, and highly motivating speaker. As our closing keynote speaker, he was impactful and tailored his message to our audience. Jeff’s knowledge, insight, and willingness to share his experience as a former hospital CEO provided a useful roadmap for those serving in a healthcare leadership role. Well done!”

-Lisa Wright, VP Member Relations and Education, Tennessee Hospital Association


“Jeff Whitehorn is an engaging speaker whose presentation made a lasting impression on my hospital’s team. His extensive knowledge on what it takes to be a leader in healthcare makes his thoughts and ideas even more inspiring, meaningful, and actionable to other healthcare leaders.”

-Ashley Vertuno, FACHE, CEO at JKF North Hospital, West Palm Beach, FL


“I, along with our entire TriStar Leadership Team, highly endorse Jeff Whitehorn as a speaker and executive coach. He did an outstanding job presenting to our physician practice leaders. He’s an excellent storyteller, and he engages the audience extremely well.”

-Tammy Hunt, CMPE, HCA/TriStar Division Assistant Vice President, Physician Services Group

jeff whitehorn - Biography

Jeff Whitehorn, MBA, LFACHE, ACC is an author, speaker, executive/leadership coach, and certified team facilitator. He uses his personal experiences from his 25 years as a hospital CEO with HCA Healthcare to help leaders unlock their true potential. He is always ready to provide storytelling, humor, energy, and proven strategies that leave his audience inspired and motivated.

Jeff received his BS degree from Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN, and his MBA from the University of Alabama. He is a certified executive coach by the global accrediting body, International Coaching Federation (ICF). He is also a certified facilitator by the Association of Talent Development (ATD). Jeff is Lifetime Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.



After retiring from HCA Healthcare in 2017, Jeff founded Whitehorn Coaching & Consulting LLC in 2018. His passion as a public speaker is to help others become better leaders. He offers true, real-world stories, examples, and insights gained from his experiences as a CEO to his audiences. He strongly believes that lessons learned by experienced leaders should be passed along to others.


Jeff is the author of the highly popular book, Leadership Treasure: 25 Bits of Gold Discovered From 25 Years as a CEO.

He and his wife live in Brentwood, TN.

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jeff whitehorn - MEDIA

Leadership lessons should be shared with others.

The leaders who make the most impact on helping other leaders thrive are the ones who have personally experienced the challenges, pressures, and successes themselves. In Leadership Treasure: 25 Bits of Gold Discovered From 25 Years as a CEO, Jeff Whitehorn shares the wealth of insights he has amassed over his long career in the healthcare industry. Through captivating stories, humorous anecdotes, and keen reflections, Jeff illustrates twenty-five lessons and principles that will develop your leadership skills. In this short, 127-page book comprised of quick and easy-to-read chapters, you will discover leadership treasure that you can use to enrich your leadership talents.

What They're Saying...

"Jeff did a masterful job of leading his hospital. To be an effective CEO in a hospital requires tremendous people skills and strong leadership. Hospitals are a busy intersection of different people - doctors, nurses, administrative personnel, families, and communities - coming together to take care of patients who need help. Jeff did a masterful job of leading his hospital on these fronts. His strong skill set of interacting positively with people, and leadership in general, allowed him, and his hospital, to perform at a high level with patient satisfaction outcomes, employee and physician engagement, and financial metrics. I encourage you to take advantage of the experiences and lessons that he shares in his book. If you are a new leader or an experienced leader, I believe you will benefit from them."