SALT LAKE CITY — The Mindshare Institute℠ announced the launch of the Mindshare Leadership Council (MLC), a national forum convening senior leaders from healthcare delivery, academia, technology, venture capital, and industry to accelerate collaborative, market-based solutions to healthcare’s most persistent challenges. The formation of the MLC reflects growing momentum across healthcare to pursue solutions that require coordination beyond traditional organizational and sector lines.
“The challenges facing healthcare today are too complex for any one organization to solve alone,” said Carter Dredge, president of the Mindshare Institute℠. “The Mindshare Leadership Council brings leaders together across sectors to think differently, align around shared priorities, and translate collective insight into action that can reshape markets and improve outcomes.”
The Mindshare Institute℠ is a nonprofit, collaborative organization focused on addressing market failures by bringing organizations together to pursue shared solutions that individual entities cannot achieve alone. This effort builds on lessons learned from successful multisystem collaborations, known as Health Care Utilities, including Civica Rx and CivicaScript, and reflects a growing recognition that today’s most complex healthcare challenges require collective action. A Health Care Utility℠ is a nonprofit business, funded and governed by coalitions of stakeholders, with the foundational purpose of helping patients gain easier and more affordable access to care and Solving Market Failures that are Hurting People℠.
The MLC brings together senior executives, researchers, and innovators who provide insight, influence, and strategic guidance to help shape the Institute’s direction, and support marketbased change at national scale.
Members of the Mindshare Leadership Council include:
- Rob Allen, President and CEO of Intermountain Health
- David Banks, President and CEO of AdventHealth
- Eduardo Conrado, President and CEO of Ascension
- Leemore Dafny, Economist and Professor at Harvard Business School
- Carter Dredge, President of the Mindshare Institute℠
- Laura Kaiser, President and CEO of SSM Health • David Langstaff, former Executive Vice President at the Aspen Institute
- Tom Lee, Chief Medical Officer of Press Ganey and Editor-in-Chief of NEJM Catalyst
- Dan Liljenquist, Chief Strategy Officer of Intermountain Health
- Amy Perry, President and CEO of Banner Health
- Greg Yap, Partner at Menlo Ventures
“The Mindshare Institute℠ provides an opportunity to rethink how we solve these problems, and reflects what is possible when leaders come together with a shared commitment to impact,” said MLC member Laura Kaiser, president and CEO of SSM Health. “We’ve shown what is possible through Civica Rx, which is bringing lower-cost medications to the hospitals and people who need them. The Institute builds on that success.”
Leemore Dafny, professor at Harvard Business School and a member of the MLC, highlighted the value of rigorous, collaborative problem solving. “The Mindshare Leadership Council provides a rare opportunity to connect evidence, strategy, and real-world experience,” Dafny said. “These conversations are essential to advancing solutions that are not only innovative, but practical and scalable.”
“From an integrated health system leadership perspective, we appreciate the Mindshare Institute℠ focus on solving market failures through disciplined collaboration at national scale,” said Amy Perry, president and CEO of Banner Health and MLC member. “The Health Care Utility℠ model aligns incentives across health systems, payers, and partners in a way that reduces risk, creates durable value, and makes large-scale impact possible.”
Rob Allen, president and CEO of Intermountain Health and MLC member, emphasized the importance of cross-sector leadership in moving from insight to implementation. “The Mindshare Institute℠ brings health systems and industry leaders together to challenge conventional thinking and translate shared insight into action,” he said. “The Mindshare Leadership Council is leading this work through the development and launch of new Health Care Utilities, including Aeroterra Health℠, the first Health Care Utility℠ developed by the Mindshare Institute℠.”
The Mindshare Institute℠ will continue convening the MLC, with a focus on innovation, shared learning, and the development of scalable solutions that strengthen trust, improve affordability, and address persistent challenges across healthcare.