Jeff Thompson
M.D.
WI, USJEFF THOMPSON, MD, is executive advisor and chief executive officer emeritus at Gundersen Health System, pediatrician, author, and speaker on values-based leadership.
Jeff's experience in leadership is far-reaching, having led diverse teams, projects, and divisions, before holding multiple senior executive roles, including fourteen years as a CEO responsible for a staff of seven thousand, hundreds of thousands of patients, and a billion dollars of the community's money within the Gundersen Health System. His long experience as intensive care pediatrician and senior executive has shown him over and over again how leading from one's values has the power to affect long-term meaningful change.
During Dr. Thompson's tenure, Gundersen Health System has been recognized across the country by independent healthcare rating organizations for high-quality patient care. It has also earned the highest honors of Healthgrades America's 50 Best AwardTM for 2012 through 2016 and the White House Champions of Change award in 2013.
Dr. Thompson is a founding member and past board chair of the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality and the La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium. He also serves on boards for the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, the Wisconsin Statewide Value Committee, About Health (chair), and Practice Greenhealth.
Dr. Thompson has authored and been featured in many articles, book chapters and abstracts on healthcare, leadership and sustainability topics. He is the author of Lead True: Live Your Values, Build Your People, Inspire Your Community, (Forbes Books, March 2017).
Dr. Thompson is board certified in Pediatric Critical Care, Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine, and Pediatrics. He has been caring for patients for over thirty-five years. He earned his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and completed his residency and fellowship at SUNY Upstate Medical University.
He resides in Lacrosse, Wisconsin with his wife and in near proximity to his two grown children.
JEFF THOMPSON, MD, is executive advisor and chief executive officer emeritus at Gundersen Health System, pediatrician, author, and speaker on values-based leadership.
Jeff's experience in leadership is far-reaching, having led diverse teams, projects, and divisions, before holding multiple senior executive roles, including fourteen years as a CEO responsible for a staff of seven thousand, hundreds of thousands of patients, and a billion dollars of the community's money within the Gundersen Health System. His long experience as intensive care pediatrician and senior executive has shown him over and over again how leading from one's values has the power to affect long-term meaningful change.
During Dr. Thompson's tenure, Gundersen Health System has been recognized across the country by independent healthcare rating organizations for high-quality patient care. It has also earned the highest honors of Healthgrades America's 50 Best AwardTM for 2012 through 2016 and the White House Champions of Change award in 2013.
Dr. Thompson is a founding member and past board chair of the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality and the La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium. He also serves on boards for the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, the Wisconsin Statewide Value Committee, About Health (chair), and Practice Greenhealth.
Dr. Thompson has authored and been featured in many articles, book chapters and abstracts on healthcare, leadership and sustainability topics. He is the author of Lead True: Live Your Values, Build Your People, Inspire Your Community, (Forbes Books, March 2017).
Dr. Thompson is board certified in Pediatric Critical Care, Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine, and Pediatrics. He has been caring for patients for over thirty-five years. He earned his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and completed his residency and fellowship at SUNY Upstate Medical University.
He resides in Lacrosse, Wisconsin with his wife and in near proximity to his two grown children.
Lead True: Live Your Values, Transform Your Culture, Achieve Your Mission
In this keynote, Dr. Thompson shows leaders that values-based leadership...
Living Your Mission: At the Intersection of Business Success and Environmental Stewardship
Business today has the opportunity and responsibility to lead the charge to show we can protect our environment and save money and improve the economy all at the same time. While CEO at Gundersen, Dr Thompson's team decreased disease-causing pollution by over 95%, dropped green house gas emissions over 96% and saved the health system and the region millions of dollars.
In this keynote, he offers leaders a roadmap to take responsibility for their impact on the environment and...
Closing the Gap Between Bright Ideas and Big Impact: How to Lead for Sustained Innovation
Innovation is not just for start-ups and Silicon Valley icons. It is an imperative for lasting success for all businesses. Done poorly, the rate of failure and the costs are high.
Dr. Thompson uses stories and concrete data to explain to leaders his principles for leading innovation: be close enough to the work to feel the moral imperative, provide the structure that supports it, and maintain a disciplined disregard for conventional wisdom. By adapting and expanding on these...
Moving Beyond Health Care into Health
We know if we are to successfully fulfill our mission to improve the health of our communities, we must work outside of our hospital and clinic walls. We now spend nearly double that of other industrialized countries on healthcare, yet are failing to make dramatic improvements in the overall health of Americans. Dr. Thompson talks to audiences about emerging and successful strategies as well as the critical roles of partnerships in our communities' and how to successfully build them in...
Coaching & Advising
