Workforce Edge Healthcare Senior Team
Workforce Edge Healthcare provides hands-on expertise and deep change management necessary for organizations to transform staff scheduling and planning.
Shawn Drake
Managing Partner
Shawn is a global leader in healthcare workforce optimization, focused on helping organizations sustain care delivery while improving workforce experience. He emphasizes that true transformation goes beyond systems and software. He holds a PhD in public policy and an MSc in Organization Analysis and Strategic HR, with roots in healthcare from King’s College London and a Ford Foundation fellowship at CUNY. Shawn regularly presents on the Workforce Edge Model© and is active in leading industry organizations, including the American College of Healthcare Executives and the American Hospital Association.
Tila Smith
Managing Partner
Tila is dedicated to making healthcare work better. Since 2007, she has led workforce deployment and scheduling transformation initiatives across Canada, the United States, and Australia. A workforce optimization expert, she has over a decade of experience in master scheduling design, including developing certification programs and training designers. Tila joined Workforce Edge as a consulting lead and project manager, with a background in program management, change management, business analysis, and system implementation. She holds a BBA and a PMP designation.
Jillian Schwieger
Executive Director, Workforce Optimization & Change Management
Jillian is an executive leader with extensive professional nursing and executive experience across the long-term, continuing care and education sectors. Jillian has had an extended focus on leading innovative staff scheduling transformations through enhanced stakeholder collaboration. She specializes in change management and organizational learning. In addition to leading specific client projects, Jillian leads our consulting practice in Europe.
Chuck Betts
Workforce Optimization Consulting Manager
Chuck is an experienced leader and project delivery executive focused on strategic workforce deployment and process optimization across healthcare organizations. Chuck’s expertise is in implementing transformational operating models and new processes. He has deep experience with integrating technology, process, job design and policy to deliver new ways of working resulting in improved organizational performance and employee satisfaction. In addition to leading specific client projects, Chuck leads our consulting practice in the United States of America.
Workforce Edge Healthcare Advisory Board
John King
Board Chair
Formerly: COO, St. Michael’s Toronto, ADM Health Ministry of Ontario
Janet Davidson
Formerly: Chair, Nova-Scotia Health; Formerly: Chair, Alberta Health Services, CEO, Trillium Health Partners Toronto
Jayne Felgen
President Emerita, Creative Healthcare Management
Debbie Fischer
Healthcare Advisory Council, GS1; Formerly: EVP, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
Prof. Iris Geva-May
President ICPA-Forum, Wagner Graduate School of Pubic Service, NYU; SPPA, Carleton, Ottawa; SPPM, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Barb Lawrie
Special Projects: BC Ministry of Health; Formerly: Chief Nurse Scientist & Chief Clinical Information Officer, Vancouver Coastal Health
Renée Légaré
Executive in Residence: Telfer School of Management, Univ. of Ottawa; Formerly: EVP & CHRO, The Ottawa Hospital
Ann Lynch
Formerly: EVP & Chief Clinical Officer, McGill University Health Centre Montreal
Dave McCraig
Formerly: SVP & CFO Hamilton Health Sciences
Linda Valentino
CNE, Calvary Hospital, The Bronx; Formerly: SVP & CNE, Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York
Former Advisory Board Members
Kim Baker
CEO, Salus Global; Formerly: CEO, Toronto Central LHIN
Bertine McKenna
Formerly: President & COO, University of Vermont Medical Center; EVP & COO, Bassett Healthcare NY
Marilyn Monk
Formerly: EVP & Chief Nursing Officer, Sick Kids; VP & CNO, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital
Lynn Stevenson
Chair, Health Employers Association of BC; Formerly: ADM BC Ministry of Health; EVP, Island Health Authority
Mark Vimr
Former: SVP Scarborough Health Network; SVP Trillium Gift of Life Network