Amanda Steele

As managing director of the consulting and advisory firm Kaufman Hall, a Vizient company, Amanda Steele leads approximately 100 specialists nationwide within the firm’s Strategy & Business Transformation practice. The team partners with healthcare systems, provider organizations, health plans and new market entrants to advance enterprise strategy and planning, payer and payment strategy, physician enterprise strategy and operations, and large-scale business transformation initiatives, spanning design, development and value creation.

Amanda advises boards and executive leadership teams on enterprise strategy, translating aspirations into plans for growth, scale, and sustainable mission fulfillment. She leads engagements activating strategic plans, partnering with organizations to build change readiness as a competency and create operating models to achieve strategic goals. Through disciplined strategic analysis, stakeholder alignment and structured planning, she enables organizations to translate vision into action.

A trusted advisor to senior leaders and national thought leader, Amanda is known for guiding complex transformation efforts that balance mission deployment and financial sustainability. She is regularly published on multiple topics including the future of strategic planning, the evolution of health system leadership, the advancement of health system and hospital boards, and sought for industry presentations, board retreats and executive strategy sessions to offer perspective on health system transformation.  Amanda works closely with leadership teams to align culture, structures and strategies to drive impactful change. She is known to challenge organizations to be bold and make deliberate, mission-driven, strategic choices.

Prior to joining Kaufman Hall, Amanda was vice president at Optum Advisory Services, where she partnered with health systems on enterprise-wide transformation and change management initiatives. Earlier in her career, she held leadership roles at The Advisory Board Company, driving growth strategies and performance improvement solutions for provider organizations.

Amanda holds a bachelor degree from the University of Chicago.