Nancy Nankivil

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About Nancy Nankivil

Nankivil is a dynamic, energetic and results oriented health care executive with demonstrated experience and knowledge in strategy, operations, brand management, consultative sales and service, product development and strategic partner/stakeholder engagement. Her passion and skill is in facilitating collaborative outcomes among diverse and sometimes competing entities through effective change management strategies. She has served more than twenty years in leadership positions for and with large employers, insurers and health plans, policy makers, state government, health care systems and physicians. She has strong expertise in quality improvement, team building and change management processes. Currently, she serves as director of practice transformation for the American Medical Association-working directly with Dr. Christine Sinsky, one of the nation’s most recognized thought leaders and researchers on physician burnout. Nankivil established the strategic framework that guides this work, leads health system assessments to measure drivers of burnout, facilitates an AMA board of trustee supported multi million dollar practice transformation grant program to render evidence on solutions to burnout and manages key strategic collaborations that support the ongoing development of this work.Formerly, as chief strategy and operations officer for the Wisconsin Medical Society, Nankivil oversaw three critical health care priorities: increasing advance care planning, reducing opioid misuse and abuse and improving physician experience and satisfaction. She greatly values the work she was able to shepard with leaders of Wisconsin health care systems on the Quadruple Aim: improving cost, quality, health of the population AND increasing clinician satisfaction. Nankivil is known for her effective and articulate communication, her commitment to cause driven initiatives, as well as "dealing with the hard stuff" and her ability to motivate people and systems toward their potential with confidence, compassion and integrity.