Cindy Kent
Everly Health, COO & Board Director
Career Highlights
Successfully led multi-billion dollar, 700-site operations with 40,000+ employees during the pandemic
Led five successful business turnarounds with two >$1B
Within healthcare, I have product, services, and health tech experiences
Single-threaded industry experience with only healthcare
Board experience including being on the board of Best Buy
Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute
Failures
Missed two IPO opportunities--one too early and the other too late
Hobbies
Traveling and learning new cultures, Reading, New at collecting Af-Am art, Learning about wines (stocking my new-ish cellar)
Talk to me about
Inspiring and motivating teams to do hard things
Building strong executive teams
Recruiting board members
Having tough customer conversations, including when to fire customers
Leading business model transformations at the enterprise level
I want to talk to you about
Exploring next professional opportunities -- interested to learn more about VC, PE and professional pivots in general
Use and limitations of generative-AI in healthcare