Quint Studer, CEO & Founder of Studer Group, is considered by many to be the main impetus for developing tools and techniques for organizations attaining great results. The systems he and the Studer Group have invented hardwire techniques and behaviors to sustain these great results. Quint has done it.

After ten (10) years teaching special education, Quint entered healthcare as the Community Relations Representative with Parkside Medical Services.

He then went to Mercy Health System in Janesville, Wisconsin, working his way up to Senior Vice President of Business Development. For the next 6 years, Quint was instrumental in taking Mercy Health System from a single location to a large vertically integrated system and was placed in charge of focusing on employee satisfaction.

In 1993 Quint served as COO of Holy Cross Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. His focus on patient care helped Holy Cross gain a national reputation in operational excellence by being named Hospital Magazines ‘Great Comeback Winner’ in 1994.

In June of 1996, Quint was named the Administrator of Baptist Hospital, Inc. in Pensacola, Florida. While President, Quint used his past experiences to lead this organization to unprecedented success. In 1997, Baptist was named by Modern Healthcare magazine to be their Service Excellence winner and Voluntary Hospital Association awarded them their celebrated Leadership Award. In 1999, inc. (pronounced Ink) magazine named Quint its March Master of Business, making him the only healthcare leader to have ever won this award. In 2002 and again in 2008, Quint received the honor of being named to Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare.

Today, Studer Group is considered to be the leading company in assisting organizations to achieve their desired results. In improving healthcare nation wide, Studer Group proudly partners in co-sponsoring the National Quality Award with the National Quality Forum in Washington D.C. and the Best Places to Work with Modern Healthcare.

Quint is a nationally recognized speaker and a published author. His First book, Hardwiring Excellence was a BusinessWeek bestseller and currently has over 380,000 copies in use nationwide. Results That Last, is a general leadership book published by John Wiley and Sons in the fall of 2007. It was written for a general business audience and in just four (4) weeks, hit the Wall Street Journal’s best seller list of business books. His new book, Straight A Leadership, teaches corporations in every industry how to develop standardized leadership practices that ensure success will last longer than individual leaders.

Most importantly, Quint stays in the field creating tools and techniques to make organizations better. Quint will mix passion with prescriptions to help us achieve our goals and connect to purpose. Quint is called ‘healthcare's fire starter’ for igniting the flame in each of us to make a difference.