Shawn Drake

Managing Partner

Shawn is a global leader with comparative expertise across the continuum of care in designing and activating health workforce optimization transformations and regional policy change. He is dedicated to helping healthcare organizations sustain service delivery, and to better the daily lives, of the healthcare workforce. He sees ‘workforce management’ only capable at being effective – if the discipline looks far beyond the software/systems solution perspective.

Shawn leverages a PhD in public policy and a MSc in Organization Analysis and Strategic Human Resource Management. He found his way to healthcare initially through his graduate education at King’s College London (where Florence Nightingale had established the first school of nursing) and during a Ford Foundation graduate fellowship at Colin Powell and Charles B. Rangel Centers at CCNY-CUNY, focused on the advancement of under-represented populations in the US.

Shawn regularly presents on the measured impacts of Workforce Edge’s Health Optimization Model © which has been continuously refined over two decades across the continuum of care. He is an active member of key organizations in the field such as: American College of Healthcare Executives (Chapter: Healthcare Leaders of New York), American Hospital Association, American Organization for Nursing Leadership, Canadian College of Health Leaders, Caring Science International Collaborative and the Scholarly Society for International Comparative Policy Analysis.