Barri Blauvelt

CEO

Barri is CEO of Innovara, Inc., one of the top healthcare talent development firms in the world. In addition to her and her team creating and delivering functional talent development globally, she is a personal champion of advancing patient- and consumer-centered healthcare, and women and diversity in leadership across all sectors of the healthcare industry. Her landmark study, "Health Alert: Women, Diversity and Leadership in the Businesses of Healthcare" benchmarks over 2000 executive leaders across over 200 firms and organizations that account for 2/3 US healthcare spending. She also founded and Chairs the Extraordinary Women Advancing Healthcare awards in Massachusetts (under the auspices of The Commonwealth Institute (a.k.a. The Women's Edge), and helped to launch these in Nigeria, as well. She teaches Quality Measures in Healthcare at the graduate level and conducts global policy-informing research and teaches or otherwise collaborations with many academic and medical/public health affiliations, including Johns Hopkins, MassBrighamGeneral and other top medical/research/teaching based hospitals and affiliated universities in the US and around the globe.