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Kenneth A. Rethmeier, DrPH is dedicated to helping companies design their future through organizational learning and the pursuit of sustained superior performance, innovative thinking, and profound strategic change.
Previously, Kenneth Rethmeier was a Senior Vice President with Wachovia Corporation. In that role, he led the development and implementation of Wachovia's Executive Leadership Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He also served as the Director of the Wachovia Center for Learning responsible for the company-wide strategic direction employee education, and executive leadership development. Dr. Rethmeier was instrumental in developing and diffusing the principles of critical thinking, creativity and innovation as a means to enhance performance.
Prior to joining Wachovia and the financial services sector in 1998, Kenneth Rethmeier's career spanned thirty years in healthcare. Dr. Rethmeier directed a series of hospital-business health career coalitions known as Private Sector Initiatives designed to maximize the quality and continuity of healthcare services. In addition, he led an innovative initiative to conduct and publish the results of community health needs assessments. Dr. Rethmeier's work was recognized nationally for its contribution to the advancement of and shift in thinking about how to manage networks of comprehensive healthcare services.
Dr. Rethmeier is a frequent speaker on such topics as: Leadership, Execution, improving community health status and the principles of the learning organization. His publications include A Guide for Assessing and Improving Health Status. He has worked extensively as a consultant in a variety of settings specializing in organizational design and management, transformation of business models, quality management, leadership retreats, implementing the concepts and tools of the learning organization, and organizational development.
Dr. Kenneth A. Rethmeier served 22 years on active duty as a health care administrator in the U.S. Navy retiring as a Captain, Medical Service Corps in 1990. During his Navy career, Dr. Rethmeier served in a variety of positions including assignments with the Fleet Marine Force in Vietnam, numerous Naval Hospitals, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, U.S. Navy Headquarters in the United Kingdom, and as the Commanding Officer of the Naval School of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Rethmeier was selected to lead two major re-organizations of Navy Medicine field operations including a dramatic change to the principles and standards for leadership of U.S. Navy medical facilities.
Dr. Rethmeier received his Bachelor's degree in public health from UCLA in 1967 and his Master of Science degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1968. During the course of his master's program, he spent a summer studying the principles and organizational structure of the National Health Service of Great Britain at the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff, Wales. He also earned his Doctor of Public Health degree (Health Care Administration/Organizational Behavior) from the University of North Carolina in 1982.
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Kenneth Rethmeier held positions at both Premier, Inc. North Carolina, and The Hospital Association of Pennsylvania. At Premier, he was the lead consultant to the Adventist Health System in Orlando, Florida assisting in the development and direction of the Education Center at Celebration Health a part of the Disney Development Corporation's community of the future in Florida. His research efforts at HAP were instrumental in support and advocacy of numerous initiatives re the tax exempt status of hospitals, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, and working with the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council and its efforts to rationalize quality measurement of hospital performance.
Kenneth Rethmeier holds appointments as an Adjunct Professor, Health Policy & Analysis, School of Public Health, UNC, Chapel Hill and Project Hope for a series of programs on leadership and healthcare management offered in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Estonia, Macedonia, Republic of Georgia, and Romania. Dr. Rethmeier was the lead consultant in the development of an innovative program in executive leadership designed specifically for physicians and conducted in partnership with the Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence and the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC, Chapel Hill.
Dr. Rethmeier has also presented workshops on Innovation and Health Care Reform, at the Annual Conference of the European Health Management Program in Innsbruck, Austria and at the Sheffield Hallam University (UK) in support of the healthcare reform efforts of the National Health Service.
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